Advisor Assurance & Capability – Project Data Management

• Play a key role in shaping how we embed change, governance and best practice at scale across a globally integrated project environment

• Support the successful adoption of emerging technologies, including automation and AI

• Permanent opportunity based in Perth or Brisbane

We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

About the role

Our Engineering Project Data Management (PDM) team have a vacancy for an Advisor Assurance & Capability to play a pivotal role in evolving how PDM is delivered across our global projects portfolio.

This is a unique opportunity to step into a role that sits at the intersection of governance, risk, change and capability uplift, helping us improve how teams adopt new ways of working; particularly as we accelerate into automation, AI and new technologies.

You’ll enable the business to succeed through ensuring our frameworks are clear, our standards are consistent and our people feel confident using them. You’ll also will work across multiple regions, balancing global consistency with local needs, and helping drive meaningful, practical improvements that make a real impact.

Reporting to the Senior Advisor Assurance & Capability, and working within a globally connected team, you will:

• Lead regional assurance and capability initiatives across APAC or AMER/EMEA

• Partner with stakeholders to identify risks, gaps and improvement opportunities

• Support delivery of governance frameworks, standards and assurance processes

• Drive change adoption across projects, ensuring new processes are understood and embedded

• Develop and uplift capability through training, guidance and knowledge-sharing

• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, simplifying and standardising ways of working

• Help align regional practices to global standards while managing competing stakeholder needs

About you

You’re someone who thrives in environments that are evolving and fast-paced. You enjoy building clarity from complexity and working with stakeholders to land practical, workable solutions.

You don’t need to be a technical expert in tools, though you understand how strong governance, process and change management enable teams to deliver effectively. Your proven ability to engage a broad and diverse stakeholder group will see you excel in this role.

You will bring:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Experience in governance, assurance, risk or capability development (project environment desirable)

• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, particularly across diverse or global teams

• Exposure to change management and business improvement initiatives

• Ability to translate complex requirements into practical guidance and outcomes

• Experience working across large-scale or major project environments (highly regarded)

• Experience in document control and/or structured business processes (advantageous, not essential)

• If you are applying for the role based in the province of Quebec, fluency in French and English, both written and spoken. Rio Tinto is a global company and the duties of this position may require collaboration with colleagues, teams, or partners based outside Quebec

We recognise that many talented people bring transferable skills and diverse experience. If you are excited about this opportunity but don’t meet every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. 

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your 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 & cultural leave)

• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)

• Enjoy 2x days work from home as part of a hybrid work model

Where you’ll be working

As part of Rio Tinto’s Safety, Development & Technical Function, you’ll be helping Rio Tinto realise the full potential of its assets today and laying the foundations for its next wave of growth. 
  
Our teams explore for new resources, build projects, forge relations with host communities, drive operational excellence and develop the innovations that make the business run more efficiently and safely.   
 
Through decarbonisation and new energy solutions, technical, environment and safety expertise, asset management, Safe Production System (SPS) and responsible closure, we’re unlocking value across the asset lifecycle. 

Applications close on 12 July 2026. (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

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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