Senior Manager Project Services

Senior Manager Project Services – Winu Project

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion

• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities

• Diverse & challenging projects

• Full time role based in Perth, Australia 

About the role

Finding Better Ways to Provide the Materials the World Needs

We are looking for a Senior Manager – Project Services to join the Winu Project and Project Services team for Rio Tinto Projects. This role has a focus on contract formation, contract administration, cost, scheduling, progress measurement and change management.

This role is a great opportunity for a seasoned Project Services professional to influence and ensure project services are maintained and delivered for Rio Tinto’s Winu Project. You will join a globally connected organisation and work as part of a collaborative, engaged and diverse team. If you are looking for a positive work environment, where collaboration, upskilling and team engagement is encouraged, then this role is for you.

Reporting to the General Manager Project Services and working in a collaborative and exciting environment you will:

• Lead the project controls and contracts and procurement teams on the project

• Partner with stakeholders to deliver the Rio Tinto Winu project by managing project controls practices and ensuring compliance with Rio Tinto Projects systems, policies and procedures.

• Ensure appropriate company standards, processes and policies are implemented for legal and commercial requirements.

• Provide expertise in proper financial control across the project including cost control, forecasting, project reporting and claims management.

• Supervise the contract team in commercial strategy and risk positioning to ensure internal risk is adequately apportioned.

• Lead and develop the Winu Project Contracting Plan (PCP).  Manage the bid, evaluate and award process for execution of the PCP ensuring contract awards meet the timing needs of the project while ensuring PM+ processes are followed, and the outcome is fair and optimal.  Ensuring the management of commercial packages is efficient and effective and any claims are well managed.

• Lead and develop the Winu Project Services team to enable optimal performance and deliverables.

• Problem solving and providing advice to project leaders regarding project controls related issues including cost and progress measurement, schedule and change management and commercial issues around contractor claims and contracting strategies.

• Validate project commercial reports, as well as regular review of project controls reporting, cost and schedule status.

• Using your project management skills to implement continuous improvement initiatives.

• Provide support to the Regional Economic Development initiative

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Previous success in building, leading and developing a team of Project Services professionals

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to build effective relationships both within the business and with contract partners and vendors

• Degree qualification in Business/Commerce or Engineering or similar

• Substantial proven experience in Project Services attained within a project environment

• Thorough understanding of contracts, project controls and project management concepts

• Previous experience in commercial strategy for build, own, operate (BOO) power plants

• Previous commercial experience in China sourcing of engineering, supply, fabrication and modularisation 

• Must have excellent communication skills, with fluency in English required

What we offer

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

• 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)

• Relocation assistance where necessary

Where you will be working

Rio Tinto Projects helps to grow our business by building new mines and assets and studying the different options for both new construction projects and operations approaching closure. We are recognised for delivering safely, on time and on budget – or better. We have won multiple awards for our work, including at the Amrun Bauxite mine in North Queensland, Australia, and on the AutoHaul™ driverless trains in the Pilbara, Western Australia.

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.

We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Respect and Inclusion

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.

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