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Principal Advisor Projects

2 months ago


Brisbane, Australia Rio Tinto Full time

**Principal Advisor Projects**
- Grow your skills and career as part of the Capital & Closure Projects team.
- Join a high-performance team, driving complex project initiatives.
- Permanent opportunity, Brisbane based.

**Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.**

Join our Rio Tinto Development & Technology department as a **Principal Advisor Projects** and manage a unique program of work for matters based in Papua New Guinea. You will utilise dynamic and progressive thinking as part of our **Capital & Closure Projects** portfolio.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

This opportunity will see you accountable for managing the design and implementation of project operational/closure readiness processes, practices, and tools. You will provide governance of project initiatives by identifying and evaluating options, challenging assumptions, mitigating risks, and delivering on opportunities through support planning and implementing preparatory activities. This is impactful work, required to deliver effective systems of work, competent people and reliable assets so as to enable the transition of facilities, plants and asset.

Reporting to the **Project Director** and working as part of a dynamic, collaborative team, you will:

- Lead and manage the development, design and implementation of strategic options for the project and coordinate analysis.
- Develop and implement the decision framework for the project.
- For each of the option pathways identified, develop an implementation approach and assess opportunities to build capacity with third parties.
- Support stakeholder identification, mapping and analysis.
- Utilize business and commercial acumen work with Business Analysis for each of the key project options.
- Support relevant option approvals through internal governance bodies.
- Engage with internal and external experts to develop the strategic direction of the project.
- Maintain relationships with key stakeholders to drive a culture of collaboration, participation and improvement.

**What you’ll bring**

You will be passionate about delivering optimised solutions and have a natural curiosity. You will drive for results, have an appetite for constructive challenge and risk based creative thinking. To succeed in this role, you will ideally have:

- Proven leadership experience with effective influencing and negotiation skills.
- An ability to understand technical and stakeholder issues and solutions outside of your field of expertise.
- Risk management, commercial awareness, business analysis & reporting, financial, and operational/business knowledge.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Proven ability to drive strategic direction for major projects.
- Strong experience and knowledge of program management requirements for international projects.
- A tertiary qualification in Law, Business Analysis, Project Management, Processing, Geoscience, Environmental Science, or other relevant discipline.

**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 leave)
- Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
- Relocation assistance

**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 and meet opportunities.

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