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Senior Advisor PMO
Permanent role either based in Brisbane with travel to Gove, NT, or residential in Nhulunbuy, NT
Full-Time, Permanent employment – Be part of something meaningful – Help deliver a legacy-focused closure program that supports community and environmental outcomes.
Work in a collaborative, values-driven team – Where your voice is heard and your contributions matter.
About the role
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
We are looking for a Senior Advisor – PMO to join the Gove Closure Program team, where you'll play a key role in driving program visibility, alignment, and delivery across a complex and purpose-driven portfolio. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to one of Rio Tinto’s most significant legacy programs, supporting the transition of land, assets, and relationships in a way that creates long-term value for communities and stakeholders.
In this role, you’ll work closely with technical, operational, and strategic teams to coordinate integrated schedules, manage reporting cycles, and ensure risks and interdependencies are clearly understood and addressed. You’ll bring structure, clarity, and insight to a dynamic program environment—helping to shape how we plan, track, and deliver on our commitments.
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 Closure Program and working in a challenging and exciting environment within the Technical and Projects team, you will be:
Coordinate and maintain the integrated program schedule, ensuring alignment across workstreams and timely delivery of closure milestones.
Lead program reporting, providing clear, concise updates to governance forums and senior leadership.
Track and manage scope, schedule, cost, and risk across the program, ensuring visibility and accountability.
Support the development and implementation of PMO frameworks, tools, and templates tailored to closure planning.
Facilitate planning and reporting cycles and internal approvals.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between operational delivery and strategic objectives.
Provide insights and analysis to support decision-making, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement.
Champion consistency, transparency, and best practice in program delivery across all streams of work.
What you’ll bring
A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
Tertiary qualifications in project management, business, engineering, or a related field.
Experience in program or project management within complex, multi-stakeholder environments—ideally in resources, infrastructure, or closure contexts.
Strong skills in schedule management, reporting, and risk tracking, with a keen eye for detail and interdependencies.
A collaborative and inclusive approach to working with diverse teams and stakeholders.
Confidence using program management tools and systems (e.g., MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint) to drive visibility and accountability.
Ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for a range of audiences.
A proactive mindset, with a focus on continuous improvement and practical problem-solving.
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 & 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)
Possible domestic relocation assistance
Where you’ll be working
Our Gove site in Australia’s Northern Territory has been supplying the global aluminium industry with world-class bauxite for more than 40 years.
Gove bauxite is shipped internationally as well as domestically to supply Queensland Alumina Limited and Yarwun refineries in Gladstone, Queensland. These refineries produce alumina as feedstock for our Australian aluminium smelting operations and for sale on the international market.
We expect our bauxite mining operations in the Gove Peninsula will cease later this decade and we are doing significant work to support closure of the operation.
Applications close on Tuesday the 5th August 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)
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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.
