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Superintendent EMEA Region

• Grow your career within the Rio Tinto Project Data Management team
• Excellent work environment where people are valued and respected
• Full time staff position based in London, with responsibility to oversee all major projects and studies within the EMEA region

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Superintendent Project Data Management to support a portfolio of major project and study work within the EMEA region. As part of our London based team you will provide a visible presence for PDM within the London office, offering strong and supportive leadership to the integrated PDM team, alongside functional support to all project stakeholders. You will embrace a rewarding role leading a team of data management professionals, enabling them to deliver a high quality project service offering to our customers throughout the EMEA region. You will be actively involved in extensive stakeholder engagement, continuous knowledge sharing, complex problem solving and ongoing coaching and support of team members. In addition you will collaborate with the globally dispersed PDM team and make connections with team mates across the globe.

From a technical perspective, you will support your team to deliver aproficient, effective, timely and quality document management and control service throughout the Project’s lifecycle, across dispersed teams, time-zones, and geographies, whilst being based in London. This role is part of an exciting central function, supporting a very exciting project across multiple continents, which is part of the global Rio Tinto Project portfolio.

This role is a great opportunity for a strong leader who has a focus on safety and quality, advanced stakeholder engagement skills to manage complex contractor engagements. They will also be involved in contractor onboarding activities, process and tool training to internal and external teams and implementing ongoing process improvements.

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.

Reporting to the Manager, Project Data Management and working in an exciting and collaborative team, within Rio Tinto Projects, you will:

• Proven strong leadership capability having lead medium to large teams previously in a similar environment
• Manage complex stakeholder engagements to drive standard implementation of owner’s team data management requirements
• As local custodian of the PDM function, you will oversee project data management and provide guidance, support and training to Project teams and external stakeholders in all tools and processes.
• Provide best practice knowledge in managing and processing document management
• Manage a globally dispersed document management team, including team members in Europe and Africa
• Manage project data through the project life cycle to ensure all data is safe and secured to close-out and subsequent handover to operations at project completion
• Ensure compliance with Rio Tinto, external standards, and Document Management and Control guidance for major projects
• Guide your team rovide a quality assurance function to the team in terms of accuracy and company standards in relation to document management and control processes and systems.
• Liaise with internal and external peers to ensure consistent principles are applied with the proper classification and identification of information.
• Engage with external stakeholders to ensure compliance to Rio Tinto processes and procedures
• Liaise with internal project data management team, to identify and streamline internal processes whilst looking for ways to automate and innovate
• Collaborate with our Integrated Delivery Partner (SNC Lavalin, currently based in London and Montreal).

What you’ll bring

• Ability to work autonomously and deliver results, with direct line leadership in the APAC region and indirect leadership support available within the London office.
• Proven ability to lead under pressure and deliver results in a timely manner (can we say something to this effect?)
• Experience managing a global team and working across various time zones collaboratively and effectively
• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Substantial experience in a document control role working on major projects
• Previous experience in managing document control teams, including team planning, performance management and development
• Excellent collaboration and engagement skills dealing with stakeholders’ groups and team members
• Previous exposure in managing Document Control systems and processes
• Previous experience in project set-up and contract/project close-out and handover
• Previous experience in managing suppliers, contractors and/or vendor teams
• Ability to oversee, manage and report on the team’s workload, progress, review status
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced work environment
• Excellent skills in all Microsoft products

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• In-depth knowledge of the project management lifecycle, from OoM to Close-out
• Broad understanding of the contract and/or supply chain process
• Experience working at or supporting a remote project site
• Ability to review and understand a project schedule.
• Previous experience in working with Digital Delivered projects
• Broad understanding of project management tools and processes
• Experience with Knowledge of Document Management Project based software tools and systems

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, you’re thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• 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)

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive. We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities.

Where you will be working

Rio Tinto Projects helps to grow our business by building new mines and assets as well as studying the different options for both new construction projects and operations approaching closure. We are recognised for delivering safely, on time and on budget or better, and have won multiple awards for our work, including at the Amrun Bauxite mine in North Queensland, Australia, and on the AutoHaul™ driverless trains in the Pilbara, Western Australia. Not sure where this came from – but we should also include reference to Brownfields work not just new mines.

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.