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Cost Engineer

Employer
Rio Tinto
Location
Perth, Western Australia, AUS
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Jun 27, 2022

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Category
Accounting
Work Term
Permanent
Work Load
Full Time
Language
English

Job Details

Cost Engineer
  • Opportunity to develop solutions that shape the future of Rio Tinto Iron Ore (RTIO) through innovation and growth
  • Be part of a group that values safety and inclusion
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Based in Central Park - Perth CBD with ad-hoc travel

About the role

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

This role will report to the Project Controls Specialist and provide proactive cost and change management support to the delivery teams across multiple projects. The Cost Engineer will be expected to effectively interact with internal and external stakeholders at a project level and form relationships with those they support.

Key Responsibilities:
  • The occupational health and safety of yourself and team members, ensuring that systems and processes are undertaken to demonstrate this care.
  • Carry out the functional duties necessary for the daily implementation of project cost and change management across regional programs of projects. This includes establishing budget, change management, contingency management, cost risk management, cashflow forecast schedule estimates, costs analysis to provide guidance on the final forecast cost, review and valuation of progress payments and reporting.
  • Assisting the Project Controls Specialist and Project Lead/Manager in managing the owners cost, provide explanation of projects costs deviation from forecast/plan and alignment to the cost management processes.
  • Be proactive and bold to raise areas of concern to the Project Controls Specialist and Project Lead/Manager to avoid surprises.
  • Interact with internal and external stakeholders at regional levels in line with Rio Tinto Values.

Role Accountabilities:
  • Report and provide cost analysis support on assigned Delivery portfolio and on individual projects.
  • Ensure compliance to the project controls guidelines and procedures by the project owners' team.
  • Manage cost assessments and carry out valuations on larger projects, and ensure timely and accurate cost validation, and valuation process.
  • Facilitate project review meetings and update cost management tools and systems.
  • Assists in maintaining the integrity of integrated project cost reports
  • Supports development of regular cost and change management reports, including professional analysis and commentary.
  • Assist in the development and update of project cashflow forecasting and estimates at completion.
  • Supports compliance with standardised processes, systems and tools
  • Maintains the relationship with contracting and project planning stakeholders to provide an informed forecast of the project.
  • Collaborates with the planners/schedulers, contracts and estimating groups to ensure that implications of changes are well articulated and understood.
  • Assists with analysing and reporting implications of changes to the Annual Plan and forecast.
  • Provides technical support to project stakeholders
  • Providing an independent assessment of the projects progress and estimate at completion.

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
  • Engineering or QS qualifications
  • 5+ years of experience in project controls delivery on a large project
  • Must have experience of working on a large mining project and dealing with multiple projects at one time.
  • Experience with PrismG2 is preferred
  • Good level Excel spreadsheet skills to verify & crosscheck data accuracy across systems
  • Familiarity with running reports for extraction of information from SAP
  • Must be a self-starter to drive and work with minimal supervision
  • Ability to work in a tight schedule to meet reporting cut offs
  • Be a team player who is able to work closely with project members cutting across levels

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thoughts and your work, and go home knowing you've helped the world progress.
  • A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
  • A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
  • A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
  • 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)
  • Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
  • Possible domestic relocation assistance

Applications close on 12th June 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

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.

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.

This role is for applicants residing in or willing to permanently relocate to Western Australia.

Company

We are curious and creative, ingenious and hard-working. We are pioneers – exploring the boundaries of everything we do. The materials we produce are essential to human progress, and we see that progress driven by our people. Working at Rio Tinto means touching people’s lives: from exploring new materials to finding ways to tackle climate change. 

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. And 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. 

Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

Company info
Website
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Rio Tinto
Telephone
+44 20 7781 2000
Location
6 St James's Square
London
London
SW1Y 4AD
Australia

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