Principal Advisor, Asset Productivity Analytics

• Leadership opportunity within our Iron Ore, Asset Management and Engineering Services division
• Opportunity to work with senior and executive leadership teams
• Analyse and advise on asset productivity improvement initiatives
• Perth based with flexible working considered and occasional travel

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Principal Advisor Asset Productivity to lead a team of professional and technical experts in providing asset performance analytics for Pilbara mine operations, including fixed plant assets through to ports. You'll be developing and providing crucial analysis and insights, along with recommendations for productivity improvement and strategic plans. Your expertise in analytics will be applied to the evaluation of assets and system performance, and the identification of potential constraints.

Leveraging the knowledge of other teams, this could be your opportunity to lead a team of 4 direct reports. You'll get to regularly engage with the senior and executive leadership team, as a trusted advisor for productivity, system alignment and processes.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry's best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

What you'll bring

• As a seasoned asset management professional, you will have a deep understanding of the metrics used to measure asset performance and how to interpret these across mining, processing and port operations,
• Experience leading highly technical and diverse teams, creating environments of psychological safety and demonstrating approaches to maximise inclusion within a distributed office/home work environment,
• Excellence in communication and managing relationships with a broad range of stakeholders across operations, maintenance and commercial areas including senior leaders and front-line workers,
• An educational background in engineering, data science and production systems analytics using contemporary applications and methodologies,
• Practical exposure to analysing and improving maintenance cost management across a range of fixed and mobile asset classes,

The prospect of joining our team should genuinely excite you. Due to the level of complexity and fast pace, this role would be best suited to someone who has a technical / mining operations background. It would be terrific if you have production management experience, but it's not essential.

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls 'progress' begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress. Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium the world's first to be certified "responsible" helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Where you'll be working

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets: a world-class, integrated network of 16 mines, four independent port terminals, a 1,700 kilometre rail network and related infrastructure all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand. We are one of the world's leading producers and exporters of iron ore.

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.

Applications close on Wednesday, 28th of July 2021 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)