Senior Specialist - Contracts Administration
Senior Specialist Contracts Administration (Sustaining Capital)
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Specialist Contracts Administration (Sustaining Capital) to lead a team of contracts advisors and specialists who administer multiple contracts across the sustaining capital project portfolio. Supporting Rio Tinto Aluminium (RTA) Pacific Operations, this role will work closely with key stakeholders in our Aluminium business on the east coast of Australia and New Zealand and have broad exposure across the sustaining capital portfolio, as well as stakeholders in Rio Tinto Procurement and corporate functions.
This role is a great opportunity for an experienced contracts and procurement professional and people leader who has effective stakeholder engagement and negotiation skills, as well as a sharp commercial awareness with a background in project procurement and contracts. Reporting to the Principal Advisor Capital Sourcing, you will:
About you
To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:
Our Benefits
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 will be working
Rio Tinto Procurement provides supply chain services that deliver value to the Rio Tinto Group through the strategic sourcing of goods and services for all operations and businesses. Value is enabled through close collaboration with business unit stakeholders to gain a deep understanding of requirements, and then delivered through uniformed processes, e-technology, increased corporate social responsibility and measurable value delivery for the Rio Tinto Group.
About us
As pioneers in mining and metals, we produce materials essential to human progress.
Our long history is filled with firsts. We've developed some of the world's largest and best quality mines and operations, and our people work in around 35 countries across six continents. Aluminium and copper, diamonds, gold and industrial minerals, iron ore and uranium: our materials make up the world around us. You'll find them in smartphones, planes, cars, hospitals and throughout your home.
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.
- Lead a team of contract advisors and specialists
- Construction focussed, commercial and contract management
- Support the business in delivering its annual sustaining capital projects plan
- Permanent opportunity, CBD location Brisbane
About the role
We are looking for a Senior Specialist Contracts Administration (Sustaining Capital) to lead a team of contracts advisors and specialists who administer multiple contracts across the sustaining capital project portfolio. Supporting Rio Tinto Aluminium (RTA) Pacific Operations, this role will work closely with key stakeholders in our Aluminium business on the east coast of Australia and New Zealand and have broad exposure across the sustaining capital portfolio, as well as stakeholders in Rio Tinto Procurement and corporate functions.
This role is a great opportunity for an experienced contracts and procurement professional and people leader who has effective stakeholder engagement and negotiation skills, as well as a sharp commercial awareness with a background in project procurement and contracts. Reporting to the Principal Advisor Capital Sourcing, you will:
- Provide leadership, coaching and mentoring of the contracts management team supporting key and complex capital projects across Bauxite, Alumina and Smelter assets;
- Be an expert negotiator, mediator, problem solver and committed to driving positive contractual outcomes for the business;
- Ensure post award contracts are managed within the contracts management system, utilising the full remit of systems and tools across the projects portfolio;
- Establish contracts management reporting and monitoring to measure progress, current health metrics and the like to inform senior management;
- Ensure all capital contracts are executed in line with the Company's strict governance and compliance requirements;
- Manage the dispute resolution process for complex contractual claims;
- Work closely with project leads, engineers, site based construction teams and other project delivery professionals in order deliver the annual capital plan;
- Maximise commercial value for the business through leading contract management practices and behaviours;
- Attend contract progress meetings and identifying any potential commercial risk associated with active studies and projects; and
- Be expected to travel to sites as required on an as needed basis, in order to maintain effective relationships with key site based stakeholders
About you
To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:
- A degree in Business, Law, Engineering (or a related discipline);
- A minimum of 10 years' experience in procurement and contracts, with significant exposure to capital projects across the end-to-end contract lifecycle;
- Strong influencing, stakeholder engagement and negotiation skills;
- Demonstrated prior leadership experience will be highly regarded;
Our Benefits
- Competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees
- Paid parental leave up to 9 months.
- Flexible work arrangements will be supported for this role
- Generous leave entitlements
- Discounted Health cover scheme (Medibank) for employees and their immediate family.
- Eligible for the Rio Tinto employee share programme.
- Salary sacrifice & packaging options - rental, mortgage, super, vehicle.
- A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
- Learning and development opportunities to support your desired technical, or leadership career path
- We also offer exclusive employee discounts all over the world together with a wellness program for physical and mental wellbeing through fitness and activity allowances.
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 will be working
Rio Tinto Procurement provides supply chain services that deliver value to the Rio Tinto Group through the strategic sourcing of goods and services for all operations and businesses. Value is enabled through close collaboration with business unit stakeholders to gain a deep understanding of requirements, and then delivered through uniformed processes, e-technology, increased corporate social responsibility and measurable value delivery for the Rio Tinto Group.
About us
As pioneers in mining and metals, we produce materials essential to human progress.
Our long history is filled with firsts. We've developed some of the world's largest and best quality mines and operations, and our people work in around 35 countries across six continents. Aluminium and copper, diamonds, gold and industrial minerals, iron ore and uranium: our materials make up the world around us. You'll find them in smartphones, planes, cars, hospitals and throughout your home.
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.