About The Position

Our Engineering Project Data Management (PDM) team have two vacancies for Assurance & Capability Leads to play a pivotal role in evolving how PDM is delivered across our global projects portfolio. With one role focusing on our APAC region and one role focusing on our AMER/EMEA region, you will be based in either Perth, Brisbane (Australia) or Montreal (Canada). This is a unique opportunity to step into a role that sits at the intersection of governance, risk, change and capability uplift, helping us improve how teams adopt new ways of working; particularly as we accelerate into automation, AI and new technologies. You’ll enable the business to succeed through ensuring our frameworks are clear, our standards are consistent and our people feel confident using them. You’ll also will work across multiple regions, balancing global consistency with local needs, and helping drive meaningful, practical improvements that make a real impact. Reporting to the Senior Advisor Assurance & Capability, and working within a globally connected team, you will:

Requirements

  • A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
  • Experience in governance, assurance, risk or capability development (project environment desirable)
  • Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, particularly across diverse or global teams
  • Exposure to change management and business improvement initiatives
  • Ability to translate complex requirements into practical guidance and outcomes
  • If you are applying for the role based in the province of Quebec, fluency in French and English, both written and spoken.

Nice To Haves

  • Experience working across large-scale or major project environments (highly regarded)
  • Experience in document control and/or structured business processes (advantageous, not essential)

Responsibilities

  • Lead regional assurance and capability initiatives across APAC or AMER/EMEA
  • Partner with stakeholders to identify risks, gaps and improvement opportunities
  • Support delivery of governance frameworks, standards and assurance processes
  • Drive change adoption across projects, ensuring new processes are understood and embedded
  • Develop and uplift capability through training, guidance and knowledge-sharing
  • Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, simplifying and standardising ways of working
  • Help align regional practices to global standards while managing competing stakeholder needs

Benefits

  • 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 & cultural leave)
  • Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
  • Enjoy 2x days work from home as part of a hybrid work model
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