Renewable Energy Engineering Manager

6 days ago

Perth, Western Australia RioTinto Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Engineering Manager to lead the delivery of early-stage engineering for renewable energy projects, including wind and solar generation, battery storage, substation, transmission, and high-voltage switchyard designs. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and managing engineering deliverables for concept, order of magnitude, and pre-feasibility study phases, ensuring that engineering outputs meet project objectives and stakeholder requirements.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and manage engineering deliverables for concept, order of magnitude, and pre-feasibility study phases.
  • Shaping and developing robust concept designs according to budgets, schedules, and quality.
  • Ensuring engineering outputs meet project objectives and stakeholder requirements.
  • Demonstrating trust and teamwork to optimise designs in conjunction with the REWA team, Iron Ore product group, functional support groups, and utility teams.
  • Analysing trends in engineering technology and maintaining consistency in approach across the engineering of the portfolio.
  • Working with study and commercial teams to determine power decarbonization scenarios and completing trade-off analysis of different technologies and system designs.
  • Engage with procurement to establish equipment specifications.
  • Maintaining relationships with engineering professionals in the global renewables team to drive a culture of collaboration and improvement using lessons learnt from other projects.
  • Managing a small team and growing the engineering capability to meet future requirements of REWA and providing support to the Global renewable energy projects, as needed.
  • Ensuring all approval processes are followed and designs compliant with Rio Tinto standards and industry best practice.
Requirements
  • Innovative mindset with experience in solar and wind farm electrical design and associated renewable energy modelling software tools.
  • Knowledge of transmission networks, grid connection, and operations.
  • Experience with solar and wind farm project evaluation and facilitating handover of concept design and development work for early-stage study phases.
  • Sound understanding of equipment technologies such as wind turbines, photovoltaic technology, trackers, inverters, transformers, and battery storage systems.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with non-specialists both face-to-face and remotely.
  • High levels of accuracy and attention to detail, strong report writing skills, and the effective use of graphical information.
  • Clear and concise communication skills with the ability to build and maintain effective relationships across all levels of the business and influence multiple stakeholders.
  • Ability to support and effectively lead a small team of engineering professionals.
  • Degree in engineering or related experience.
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.

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.

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