Specialist Contract IFMS

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Perth based opportunity – Central Park

About the role

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

There is currently an opportunity to join our Facilities – Contract Management Team in Perth working as a Contracts Specialist to assist in governing and optimising our service contracts within the Iron Ore operations.

This is a permanent position based in Perth, reporting to the Superintendent IFMS Contracts & Commercial. You will be:

• Working in a manner that demonstrates a commitment to achieving our goal of zero harm
• Delivering operational requirement through scoping, commercial analysis, negotiation, contract conformance and input into variation preparation for the IFMS contract
• Interpreting the contract, service specifications, pricing schedules and management plans to ensure services are delivered and charged correctly.
• Governance of the IFMS contracts
• Responding to internal and external stakeholders regarding contractual issues and provide guidance and support through to resolution
• Commercial relationship management

What you’ll bring

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Tertiary qualifications in commerce/business/accounting and contract management
• Prior experience in managing large contracts in the mining, services or construction industries
• Strong problem solving, strategic and analytical capability
• Strong verbal and written communications skills, with the ability to provide regular updates to senior leaders
• Proven ability to review, analyse and interpret data
• Ability to manage competing priorities
• Stakeholder engagement, and the ability to manage expectations
• A knowledge of business process and system application with Rio Tinto

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 and salary packaging options;
• Career development and 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.

This role is for applicants residing in or willing to permanently relocate to Western Australia. Rio Tinto offers Fly in and fly out options from Perth, our regional FIFO hubs and the opportunity to live in our residential towns where applicable.

Applications close on 25th April 2021 (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 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.