Superintendent Project Cost

Superintendent Project Cost & Reporting

• Drive change, innovation with a strategic focus on costs & project controls
• Supportive team culture with a focus on inclusion, safety and work life balance
• Perth based permanent position

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a motivated Superintendent Project Cost & Reporting accountable for leading a team responsible for the development of project cost estimates in line with the integrated schedule and the monitoring of activities during the execution of projects, including cost and schedule forecasting and conformance reporting against the annual plan.

We'll support and empower you to challenge yourself, learn from others, share your own ideas freely and achieve excellence in strategic and leadership outcomes.

You'll manage your own team of professionals, and work with key stakeholders across Resource Development to manage and coordinate effective project control processes to ensures funds are available for the delivery of our drill programs. Reporting to the Manager Planning, you will also be responsible for:

• Developing your team's capability through ongoing coaching and mentoring, structured training and support.
• Owning, standardising and driving continuous improvement of our cost and reporting standards and working collaboratively to benchmark and adopt best practices.
• Conduct regular integrated schedule baseline reviews with quarterly planners to ensure integrity of estimates and forecasts.
• Ensure expenditure aligns with approved budgets and schedules.
• Critical data analysis to support business decision making, which includes physicals, cost, contractor performance and key insights for program delivery.
• Development and management of program estimates and budget.
• Demonstrating the Rio Tinto values of courage, care, and curiosity.

If you are excited about this role and think you have what it takes but your experience doesn't align 100%, we still want to hear from you.

We are committed to promoting diversity within Rio Tinto and as a special measure to we strongly encourage women to apply.

What you will bring

We'd love for you to bring with you a genuine passion for sharing your cost and reporting knowledge, developing teams, and improving efficiencies.

Your success in this role will be greatly assisted by:

• Prior experience in a similar role, with proven team leadership and coaching capability.
• Experience in cost control routines and processes (budget/commitment management, invoice processing, cashflow, forecasting and reporting).

• Your ability to identify trends, underlying business impacts, schedule and cost optimisation opportunities and provide risk mitigation strategies.

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively engage, clearly present information and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.

• Working knowledge of scheduling practices and software.
• Experience in SAP.
• Well-developed problem-solving capability and drive for continuous improvement.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you have 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 will be working

You and your team will be Perth based with opportunity to work flexibly from home combined with time in our Central Park offices. Our wider team is spread across a combination of Perth and Pilbara Resource Development sites. This role is open to both full time and part time applicants.

Applications close on 31stOctober 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

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.