Principal Advisor Closure Research

2 weeks ago


Perth, Australia Rio Tinto Full time

**Principal Advisor - Closure Research & Development**
- Be at the forefront of Mine Closure activities, by facing challenges and realising opportunities
- Opportunity to gain exposure and develop your career in the Rio Tinto Closure team
- Permanent full time role based in either Brisbane or Perth, Australia

**About the role**

We are looking for a **Principal Advisor - Closure Research & Development **to plan, direct and oversee the execution of our global Closure R&D program encompassing the development, scale-up and adoption of emerging in-situ and remote sensing technology solutions for environmental monitoring and characterisation of mining-influenced waters (MIW), soil, sediment, and mineral and industrial wastes.

This role is a great opportunity for an innovative thinker who enjoys ownership in the way they work and wants to provide step-changes in how we design, operate, close, and repurpose our mines, infrastructure, and processing plants.

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.

Reporting to the Manager - Closure Research & Development, and working in a rewarding environment within the global Closure Strategy and Optimisation team, you will:

- Build a pipeline of projects (technology development stages), scopingand shaping their business cases with due consideration of our IP position, technical and commercial risks and financial and non-financial (ESG) value metrics
- Build partnerships and negotiate agreements with other industry and technology players and/or research organisations to advance the technology readiness level
- Maintain a working knowledge of the advancements and emerging technologies within your program’s domain
- Provide direction, oversight and first-level governance to the project leads assigned to each of the R&D initiatives
- Coordinate the development and adoption of informatic tools to assist in the day-to-day management of the project portfolio
- Provide hands-on project and technical management, evaluating progress and results, and iterating the development, commercial and procurement strategies required to accelerate scale-up and adoption.

**What you’ll bring**
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
- Proven experience in assembling and leading R&D and technology validation portfolios, including laboratory-based and capital-intensive projects for technology development and scale-up
- Knowledge of potential partners through networks of relevance to Rio Tinto and its closure activities
- Tertiary qualifications in science/engineering (e.g. geosciences, environmental, physics, electronics)
- Demonstrated experience influencing key decision-makers and senior executives in a large, cross-functional environment
- Capacity for divergent thinking combined with an entrepreneurial and venture investment mindset
- Environmental monitoring (e.g. soil, water, air)
- Mineral an industrial waste characterisation, including rock dumps and tailings

**What we offer**

Be recognised for your contribution, thinking, and 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 where necessary

**About Rio Tinto**

Every idea, everyinnovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a firststep, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs.Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years,Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers - generations of people spanning theglobe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to humanprogress.

Our iron ore has shapedskylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium - the world’s first to becertified “responsible” - helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copperhelps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world and explorethe universe.

Our diamonds help uscelebrate the best parts of life.

**Whereyou’ll be working**

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