Manager Project Controls

Lead change, risk, and governance across key projects

Collaborate with cross-functional teams

Drive impact in a culture of accountability and innovation

Fixed term contract based in Brisbane or Perth

About this role

We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented professional to lead critical aspects of project delivery, including reporting, change management, risk mitigation, and team leadership. This role plays a key part in ensuring project governance, scope control, and collaboration across multiple stakeholders, while driving accountability, continuous improvement, and alignment with our strategic objectives.

Responsibilities include

Manage change processes related to project scope, schedule, and budget, ensuring all changes are documented, impact-assessed (via the Change Team), and approved through established governance procedures

Track and document key design decisions made across various project governance forums

Identify, assess, and manage project risks—including financial, operational, and technical—while developing appropriate risk mitigation strategies and contingency plans

Deliver regular reports and dashboards to key stakeholders in collaboration with the Governance team

Ensure document management platforms are properly set up and maintained, including adherence to naming conventions and workflows

Communicate and enforce document governance processes, including version control, archiving, and management of contractual documentation

Manage change requests, ensuring any changes to project scope, schedule, or resources are evaluated for financial impact and approved before implementation

Track key design and project decisions through governance forums and maintain an up-to-date decision log

What you’ll bring

Identify, assess, and manage project risks (financial, operational, and technical)

Develop and implement effective risk mitigation strategies and contingency plans

Collaborate cross-functionally with teams including Project Management, Business Integration, Governance & Assurance, and Commercial to ensure project value is delivered

Set the vision, direction, and priorities for the team, aligning with company culture and values

Foster a psychologically safe environment that encourages problem-solving, continuous improvement, and innovation

Demonstrate adaptability and lead by example, setting clear expectations and holding self and team accountable for performance

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your 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 fixed term 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)

We are finding better ways to simplify our operations, expand our capability and improve productivity, to do this we are embarking on an exciting journey that will transition us to a modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform moving from an old, outdated technology (currently RTBS) to a new digitally enabled S/4 Hana and application ecosystem.

An effective RTBS is a key enabler to Best Operator, given 30-60 per cent of our frontline time is spent in the system. To deliver this change we must ensure that we work closely with each of the Product Group’s (PGs) and Functions to modernise how we operate in the system. Consequently, this is not a technology led program, it is business led.

Where you’ll be working

The newly created ERP Implementation Program team within the PMO function will bring together a variety of specialist skillsets to shape our digital future and simplify, automate, modernise and improve our ways of working globally.

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 situations and meet opportunities.

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.

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