Specialist Underground and Surface Drillsand Drills

6 months ago


Perth, Australia Rio Tinto Full time

**Specialist - Underground and Surface Drills**

**Where we’re all welcome**

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.

We acknowledge that all people are different and believe that our differences are our strength. The diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together.

**About the role**

We are looking for a **Specialist, Underground & Surface Drills” **within the Global Mobile Equipment team in procurement. It is a vital role, one that relies on a commitment to safety and sustainability, while remaining attentive to details in logistics, continuous improvement, procurement process and market forces (commercial).

An important function of this role is to support the execution of category strategy in a global Underground HME context. The category spend per annum is greater than US$50 million. The role interfaces with a broad range of stakeholders within both Rio Tinto Procurement and other company business units.

Reporting to the Category Manager, Mobile Equipment, you will:

- Provide quality, timely information, advice and support to global business unit stakeholders on the underground HME contracts, relationships and strategies employed.
- Maintain and facilitate underground HME and surface drilling HME supplier relationships at global and regional levels
- Lead contract execution on a day-to-day basis.
- Develop an understanding of global underground HME market and related commercial/ technical markets.
- Support the development and deployment of the global Underground HME strategy
- Facilitating information gathering for forecasting as well as supply chain, business risks and suppliers.
- Lead category value creation initiatives and contribute your ideas and energy to innovate and build capability and knowledge within the category.
- Identifying and implementing sustainable development improvements in the category (ie: ESG improvement, HME electrification).

**What you’ll bring**

To be successfully considered for this role, you will ideally have:

- A strong commitment to safety
- 5+ years background in strategic procurement, end-to-end process, contracting and complex commercial evaluations.
- Tertiary qualifications in business, finance, engineering, or a related discipline. CIPS Certificate or Diploma in Purchasing or Supply is advantageous.
- Strong engagement and collaboration skills in managing stakeholder relationships
- Specialized experience in underground and heavy mining equipment in the mining industry is desirable
- Experience in macroeconomics, innovation implementation and equipment electrification is desirable.
- An understanding of business process improvement and change management.
- Project management, problem solving and analytical skills
- Advanced skills with the Windows environment, including use of the MS Office suite of products and ideally SAP or an equivalent ERP.

**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
- Full relocation provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia
- A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive bonus
- 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, cultural leave)
- To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives - at a time that suits them
- Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more

**Where you’ll be working**

This role is based at West Angelas Operations in the scenic Pilbara region and close to the major centre of Newman.

**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 nati



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