Women in Projects

Women in Projects – Sustaining Capital

• Great life friendly roster giving you more time to spend on the things that are important to you - 8 days on, 6 days off fly in fly out (FIFO) from Perth
• An exciting opportunity to make a positive impact in a project delivery team with your skills, experience, and diversity of thought – mining industry experience not required
• Full support and training through a thoughtfully designed learning program, the ‘360 Day Pathway’ in a supportive team culture with a focus on inclusion, safety, and work life balance

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

You may have never considered mining or feel that your current career path is your set future, but consider a future with an open, connected global leader that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

We have opportunities available to women, who have leadership experience to join our Sustaining Capital Team as a Project Advisor. The successful candidates will assist in delivering a variety of projects across our Pilbara operations and communities. You will support the safe and efficient delivery of our projects by managing our Contracting Partners in meeting RTIO Project Delivery, Health, Safety, Environment, Quality (HSEQ) and contractor requirements.

You’ll work 8 days on, 6 days off as your roster, staying at the camp facilities during your rostered time on and you’ll have more time for downtime for the things that are important to you during your rostered time .

About you

You’re passionate about developing and supporting diverse teams of contracting partners to achieve successful outcomes for our projects. Your strong problem-solving and conflict resolution skills mean you’re confident to challenge assumptions and deliver initiatives to improve projects and processes. Your excellent people, communication and influencing skills see you thrive when collaborating in multi-disciplinary teams and engaging multiple stakeholders while working in an agile environment. You place a strong focus on health and safety, quality assurance and the environment. Your ability to interpret and implement systems, processes, and procedures along with your effective time management and prioritisation skills will help you succeed in this role.

You’ll start in a transition program that has been thoughtfully designed to support your move into or further develop your mining career. You’ll bring your exceptional leadership skills to learning and development sessions that are focused on how a mining operation works, how to keep everyone performing safely and all the other technical aspects of the role. During the program you’ll shadow a peer on site and have a mentor who will coach and support you as you learn more about the industry. On completion of the program, you’ll lead your own projects to achieve success.

What we offer 

Be recognised for your contribution, you’re thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress. 

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program 
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family               
• Attractive Share ownership plan
• Company provided insurance cover
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions 
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support 
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible Domestic relocation assistance

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leadingglobal mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where weproduce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals and other materialsneeded for the global energy transition and for people, communities, andnations to thrive. We have been mining for almost 150 years and operate withknowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is findingbetter ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovationand continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to theright environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on ourown, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, createwin-win and meet opportunities.

Where you’ll be working

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets: a world-class, integrated network of 17 mines, four independent port terminals, a rail network spanning nearly 2,000 kilometres and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand.

We are one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of iron ore. 

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.

The roles are part of a program aimed specifically for women to create equality in the workplace and are special measures being taken under applicable laws.

Applications close on Friday, 24^th February 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).