Senior Advisor Facilities Strategy

Senior Advisor Facilities Strategy – Perth

• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development

• Be home every night! Based in Central Park Perth

• 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.

We are looking for a Senior Advisor Facilities Strategy for our Facilities Strategy Studies team in Perth. This role will be directly responsible for leading early concept development and order of Magnitude (OOM), Pre-Feasibility (PFS) for expansions at Iron Ore’s accommodation villages in the Pilbara.  The role will also be the owners representative for approved projects through Sustaining Capital’s Feasibility Study (FS) and execution stage to receive final deliverables and making projects operational.

The role requires applicable built form design and project management knowledge and experience with critical thinking and problem solving to manage consultant project management and delivery teams as the owner’s representative for Rio Tinto Iron Ore Facilities Accommodation projects with internal project delivery partners.

Reporting to the Principal Engineer Facilities, accountabilities include but are not limited to;

• Lead our safety efforts and embed our Critical Risk Management within your area of control

• Lead Facilities design/study phase of built form accommodation projects of $30M+ budget. 

• Safely execute, lead and manage assigned projects through OOM and PFS study phases

• Navigate all relevant approvals process

• Manage key project stakeholders

• Building design management

• Front end project scoping

• Development of business case and seeking of internal funding approvals

• Management of internal and external stakeholders

• Owners representative supporting project delivery team

What you’ll bring

• Demonstrate critical thinking and problem solving

• Experience with built form construction consultants and documentation

• Experience procuring and working with design consultants

• Experience with project management, leading and collaborating within a team

• Experience managing internal & external stakeholders

• Proficient in MS Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Project. PowerBi knowledge an advantage

• C class drivers licence

• Tertiary Engineering qualifications with experience in Building projects and/ or mining is preferred

If you are excited about the role and think you have what it takes but your experience doesn't align 100% we still want to hear from you.

What we offer

• 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 and salary packaging options

• 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)

Where you’ll be working

You and your team will be Perth based with opportunity to work flexibly from home combined with time in our Central Park offices. Our wider team is spread across a combination of Perth and Pilbara Resource Development sites. There will be some Pilbara site visits required, with frequency dictated by project need.

Applications close on 30 January 2025 (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.

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.