Specialist Projects

Specialist Projects

• Join a supportive leadership group dedicated to your growth and development
• Secure a permanent position with a fantastic range of benefits
• Embrace a culturally rich coastal lifestyle in beautiful Gove
• Enjoy domestic relocation assistance within Australia

About the Role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We're looking for a collaborative and forward-thinking Specialist Projects professional to join our integrated Capital Projects team in Gove. This role is central to the successful delivery of both operational and closure projects, following the recent team integration. It addresses a key leadership need—ensuring projects are delivered to scope, quality, budget, and schedule, while upholding Rio Tinto's governance standards and safety commitments.

This role plays a vital part in promoting a strong safety culture and inclusive working environment, ensuring that all project activities reflect our values of safety, respect, and belonging. It is also responsible for optimising costs across the project portfolio by ensuring resources are effectively deployed and supported. You'll lead a team of project engineers and construction professionals, enabling better coordination, execution, and outcomes.

About Us

We are committed to excellence in asset management and operational efficiency. Our culture encourages innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement, where every team member contributes to our shared success. Join us in shaping the future of asset management.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of projects in line with approved scope, standards, and safety expectations.
• Support and maintain project governance frameworks to ensure consistency and compliance.
• Assess project resourcing needs and recommend adjustments to meet delivery timelines and budget targets.
• Champion the use of standardised project processes, systems, and tools.
• Coordinate vendor engagement and monitor performance to ensure alignment with project goals.
• Manage project resources to deliver assigned scopes effectively and efficiently.
• Foster collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and continuous improvement across diverse stakeholders.
• Provide day-to-day leadership and support to the project team, encouraging inclusive and high-performing practices.

What You'll Bring

• Experience in project delivery within operational or closure environments.
• Strong leadership and coordination skills, with the ability to work effectively across diverse teams.
• Understanding of project governance, safety standards, and resource optimisation.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement capabilities.
• Ability to thrive in dynamic settings and manage competing priorities.
• Commitment to fostering a safe, respectful, and inclusive workplace.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to be part of a high-performing team driving meaningful outcomes in a unique operational context. You'll contribute to the success of Gove's integrated project portfolio and help shape the future of our infrastructure and closure programs.

We value diversity and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels respected, supported, and empowered to contribute.

What we offer

• Enjoy domestic relocation assistance.
• Receive a remote area allowance (25% of base salary).
• Benefit from remote area holiday travel assistance.
• Take advantage of heavily subsidised housing and utilities.
• Secure a permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto.
• Earn a competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience, with an annual incentive program.
• Access comprehensive medical benefits, including subsidised private health insurance for you and your immediate family.
• Participate in an attractive share ownership plan.
• Benefit from company-provided insurance cover.
• Explore extensive salary sacrifice and salary packaging options.
• Pursue career development and education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions.
• Enjoy ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support.
• Take leave for all of life's reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave).
• Access exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail, and more).

Where you will be working

Our Gove site in Australia's Northern Territory has been supplying the global aluminium industry with world-class bauxite for more than 40 years.

Gove bauxite is shipped internationally as well as domestically to supply Queensland Alumina Limited and Yarwun refineries in Gladstone, Queensland. These refineries produce alumina as feedstock for our Australian aluminium smelting operations and for sale on the international market.

We expect our bauxite mining operations in the Gove Peninsula will cease later this decade and we are doing significant work to support closure of the operation.

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.