Superintendent Project Controls PMO East

Superintendent Project Controls

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion and diversity
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• Monday to Friday Perth based role

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for an engaging Superintendent Project Controls to lead and provide oversight of project controls and reporting systems, including financial, scheduling, and cost management systems required for the efficient and effective monitoring and management of projects.

The scope of work you will be accountable for is challenging and diverse. Your demonstrated ability to engage, connect and positively influence key stakeholders at all organizational levels will play a critical part to the effectiveness in this role.

Leading on the frontline is one of the most important jobs in our business and comes with a huge amount of responsibility. We need you to motivate, inspire and keep your people safe and well. With signature leadership training programmes, growing and developing is more than an opportunity – it is something we actively plan and make happen. Every day our leaders grow, while our rosters are designed to help you live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family.

Reporting to the Manager Project Services and working in a challenging and exciting environment within the Project Services, Sustaining Capital department, you will:

• Be an inspiring role model and coach for positive behaviours, practices and processes, whilst providing leadership, development and support to your team
• Work within a Functional Management structure, to provide a day-to-day support to the Project Leads, Delivery Managers and the associated management teams whilst supporting functional responsibilities.
• Lead the implementation and application of Sustaining Capital Project Controls’ endorsed standards and practices to plan, monitor, and control project scope, costs, schedule and risks for the project.
• Ensure project controls reporting documents are produced and that they clearly reflect schedule and current state progress, cost or budget considerations, changes, vendor performance and other risk levels.
• Provide the Delivery team with integrated portfolio, accurate, and timely whole-of-project advice, information and capability to drive achievement of portfolio delivery.
• Prepare and develop project strategies and set the standards for consistent application of processes and procedures relating to cost and schedule management and reporting against predefined scope deliverables for the project.
• Oversee the development and implementation of project assurance activities which will include a system of regular compliance reviews and ensure that the assurance program is implemented appropriately and that non-conformances are addressed in a timely manner.
• Foster close collaboration and engagement with stakeholders and resource to develop progress KPIs that are tracked and monitored, as well as prepare regular reports detailing project progress against plan, highlighting critical issues and monthly forecasts for project costs to complete against budgets and committed costs and cross-checking and validating data for anomalies, irregularities or inconsistencies.
• Ensure the workload of the Project Controls team is suitable distributed and the Delivery Teams are effectively and efficiently supported.
• Mentoring of Project Controls personnel
• Liaise with relevant capital coordinators to aid in the development and management of the capital plan.
• Encourage the analyse of systems, processes and procedures to improve management, operations and deliverables including the development of frameworks, standards, policies and systems that reflect industry best practice and ensure compliance with Rio Tinto policies, where applicable.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Drive to create a respectful, inclusive and diverse work environment
• Tertiary qualification in an appropriate discipline
• A passionate people leader who will influence, motivate and be confident in effectively leading, mentoring and coaching team members as well as interfacing with senior leaders
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, presentation & negotiation skill, with demonstrated ability in influencing others
• Solid experience in a Project Controls Management within major projects including knowledge of working with multiple sustaining capital projects
• A proven track record in the delivery of business outcomes in an environment of complex work scenarios and capability to rapidly adjust to a changing work environment
• Strong knowledge Cost Management Systems and Primavera P6
• Comprehensive knowledge of Earned Value Principles and Change Control

Where you’ll be working

You will be based at our head office located in Perth Central Park building, working Monday to Friday with some site travel required.

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets: a world-class, integrated network of 16 mines, four independent port terminals, a 1,700 kilometre rail network and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand.

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins witha first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers. 

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress. 

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe.Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life. 

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.

Applications close on 6 November 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)