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Senior Contracts Advisor

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

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Category
Auxiliary & Support Staff
Work Term
Permanent
Work Load
Full Time
Language
English

Job Details

Senior Contracts Advisor
  • Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
  • Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
  • Utilise your engagement skills to partner with a diverse range of business stakeholders
  • Permanent Opportunity - 5:2:4:3 FIFO with the option to transition to residential in Tom Price

About the role

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

We are looking for Senior Contracts Advisor who will play a collaborative role in administering a diverse portfolio of site-based contracts across the Fixed Plant remit, with particular focus on the Capital Projects and Major Maintenance elements of our operation.

This role will be a great opportunity for a motivated individual to play a pivotal part in enabling the sustainable delivery of on-site works for capital projects and major maintenance activities. You will facilitate efficient and visible collaboration between site personnel and our Business Partners.

Reporting to the Superintendent NPI and Electrical, and working within a challenging and exciting environment, you will be:
  • Working in a manner that demonstrates a commitment to Our Values of Care, Courage and Curiosity
  • Effectively incorporating safety into our everyday work
  • Interpreting the contracts, specifications, and pricing schedules to ensure services are delivered and charged correctly
  • Responding to internal and external stakeholders regarding contractual issues and provide guidance and support through to resolution
  • Foster a culture of inclusiveness, collaboration and accountability whilst supporting, coaching, mentoring, and nurturing an experienced team of CMS Supervisors
  • Co-ordinate and implement effective vendor management practices for site-based activities that include ensuring qualifications and mobilization documentation meets site standards
  • Support the day-to-day scheduling activities for the CMS Supervisor team while being actively involved in the forward planning of resources to ensure safe and successful delivery of capital projects and major maintenance activities
  • Ensure the building and strengthening of working relationships with team members and key stakeholders to foster a culture of shared knowledge and common processes

What you'll bring
  • Tertiary qualifications in commerce/business/accounting or contract management
  • Problem solving, strategic and analytical capability
  • Ability to manage competing priorities
  • Stakeholder engagement, and the ability to manage expectations
  • Proven ability to mentor and support CMS Supervisors and diverse teams with the ability to influence senior stakeholders

What we offer
  • 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 18 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.

Where you'll be working

Tom Price is located in the central Pilbara, west of Karijini National Park and is our original Pilbara mine, currently employing residential and fly in fly out employees. It is known as one of the most attractive towns in the Pilbara with a high school, two primary schools a hospital and a high standard of recreational facilities.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 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.

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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