Principal Advisor EPCM Contracts

• Be part of the world's leading mining organization
  
• Dynamic work culture and great exposure to multicultural teams
  
• Fantastic international expatriate opportunity in Mongolia
  

About the role

This role Principal Advisor EPCM Contracts is to provide mentoring and a leadership role to drive and support project's process, health safety and environment requirements and business improvement initiatives. Work with a variety of contract management concepts, practices, and procedures and to lead a short, long-term projects including an ability to proactively manage and execute changes.

Working a 5 Day On /2 Day Off residential or 4 Week On/2 Week Off - FIFO roster and reporting to the Manager Project Procurement and Contracts, you will:

• Supervise and develop team members responsible for the procurement and contract management of packages
  
• Ensure Project's Procurement and Contracts Plan is adhered to and updated in relation to the development and management of EPCM works packages, manage all commercial aspects of the EPCM Services contract
  
• Interface with, and strategic input into, EPCM Contracts and Procurement team, and Owners Project Management team to identify, agree and implement appropriate procurement strategies including clear timeframes/ milestones to ensure that the Company's commercial position is optimised
  
• Provide support to EPCM Procurement and Contracts team in the preparation of market engagement documents and oversight over the post award contract management activities
  
• Hold multiple stakeholder parties accountable for deliverables and participation during the end to end contract management process
  
• Review and authorize all documents for pre-award and post award activities, in particular, contract change requests and associated Variations from EPCM.
  
• Input into EPCM Claims strategy and management and manage the process for resolving contractor claims and disputes escalated
  
• Ensure that the mandated contract management system (Omnicom) is utilised and updated by EPCM with information on Project status/ actions, project reports and documents
  

What you'll bring

• Degree and / or Postgraduate Qualification in Law or Business/ Commerce
  
• Have 10+ years of contracts and commercial management experience
  
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively work within multi-disciplinary, multi-country project teams
  
• Demonstrate a high degree of contractual and commercial acumen to apply large value, complex capital projects
  
• Proven ability to negotiate, interpret and apply contracts and commercial documentation, including assessment of commercial risk
  

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Ability to analyze situations and information and formulate a plan of action
  
• Contractor claim and dispute resolution experience
  

What we offer

• A dynamic work environment where the safety and well-being of our people is always the number one priority
  
• International relocation and visa assistance
  
• Competitive package including annual incentive and living allowance
  
• Career development to further your ambitions
  
• Coaching and mentoring opportunities to support junior staff
  
• A comprehensive international health insurance for employees and their immediate family
  
• Access to the Rio Tinto employee share plan
  

About us

Joining the Rio Tinto Oyu Tolgoi Underground Project team is a great opportunity to be part of one of the most exciting developments in copper and gold mining for several decades. The mine contains reserves and resources that make it one of the world's largest copper-gold deposits.

This mega project is expected to be a major contributor to Mongolia's development. As part of the Rio Tinto Oyu Tolgoi Underground Project team, you have the ability to contribute to something significant and learn and develop both personally and professionally. We offer a collaborative, high performing environment where success is achieved by working together.

Discover more about Mongolia and Oyu Tolgoi

Mongolia is increasingly becoming a destination for tourism and expatriate residents. As a rapidly developing city, Mongolia's capital Ulaanbaatar is seen as a comfortable, yet exciting place to live. With an array of cultural and social activities available and a growing network of international schools, housing options, and leisure facilities, its home to a growing community of international expatriates.

Located in the South Gobi Desert, just 80 kilometres from the Chinese border, the Oyu Tolgoi open pit mine and camp is a large, well-run and comfortable site with multiple amenities including recreational and sports facilities, a cinema, shops, restaurants and bars catered to a growing community. For more information about OT site, please check out this video.

Where you'll be working

Oyu Tolgoi is an operating Copper / Gold open pit mine with a brownfields underground mining project. The site is located in the Gobi Desert region of Mongolia. The reserves case for the underground project is in the order of 0.5 billion tonnes of ore to be mined from the 95,000 tonnes per day Hugo North Lift 1 (HNL1) panel cave mine with a 20-year operations life. There is also the potential for 3 further block cave districts to increase mine life beyond 100 years.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ 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.

Job application closes as on 21 January 2021