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Job Overview:
About Rio Tinto: Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminum, 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.
About Rio Tinto Lithium: On 5 March 2025, Rio Tinto completed the acquisition of Arcadium Lithium and combined it with its Rincon asset to form Rio Tinto Lithium, establishing Rio Tinto as a global leader in the supply of energy transition materials and one of the world’s top lithium producers.
Position Summary: The Project Manager is responsible for guiding projects from initiation to completion, ensuring alignment with business goals and project objectives. They will act as the central hub connecting stakeholders, team members, and leadership throughout the project lifecycle, often working across multiple functional areas and departments.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Manage multiple small to medium capital projects, from start to finish, ranging in value from $100K to $10M.
• Engage with stake holders to define the scope, execution strategy, and estimate the Total Installed Cost of the project.
• Ensure that clear and complete scopes, schedules, and budgets are prepared and accepted by the plant for assigned projects.
• Work with stakeholders to define the project economics and payback.
• Develop and document an execution plan for each project which is scaled to the size and complexity of that project.
• Develops accurate scopes, schedules, and estimates for each of your projects.
• Prepare Appropriations Request documents for corporate capital funds.
• Provide guidance to the project team to accomplish the scope of work and achieve project goals, schedule milestones and cost & quality objectives.
• Work directly with procurement and other resources to ensure that contracts, equipment, supplies, and services needed to execute your projects are put in place and managed.
• Perform engineering reviews and project engineering to support your projects and the projects of others as required.
• Work with on-site and off-site resources to accomplish the scope of work effectively during the project.
• Promptly recognize, document, and communicate any scope, schedule, budget, or design changes and secure client authorization prior to allowing changes.
• Communicate regularly to keep team members and stakeholders up to date on project status, schedule progression, costs, and other critical or contractual items.
• Ensure the accuracy and completeness of all deliverables and services provided by the project.
• Work with Maintenance and Operations during the commissioning and start-up phase.
• Create new and update existing documentation for equipment and systems installed or modified as part of your projects.
• Complete all needed Pre-startup Safety Reviews, support change management processes, and project closeout for your projects.
Education and Experience:
• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering; Chemical, Mechanical, or Electrical
• Minimum 10 years of industry related experience working as a Project Manager.
Knowledge and Skill Requirements:
• Strong safety champion who will lead the project in achieving zero incidents and injuries.
• Demonstrated knowledge of gated work process for project management and experience managing projects using a gated process.
• Actual manufacturing plant experience.
• Willing and capable of working extended hours or weekends (infrequently) as needed to support plant outages and tight deadline projects.
• Demonstrated knowledge of successful project management practices such as development of scope, schedule, and estimate and subsequent project cost controls and forecasting.
• Knowledge of chemical or related manufacturing facilities and experience managing projects in these facilities.
• Able to proactively plan, organize, and drive projects from inception to start up and completion.
• Ability to work in and foster a strong team environment with minimal supervision.
• Self-motivated/Self-directed.
• Able to handle multiple activities simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Good negotiation and meeting facilitation skills.
• Good working knowledge of the procurement process.
• Knowledge of current versions of industry standard codes, practices, and procedures and their application.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Good presentation skills.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP
Safety Requirements: (position and location specific) All employees are expected to carry out their work functions in a healthy and safe manner, to encourage and support safe work practices at all times, and to report and/or rectify any unsafe conditions that may come to their attention immediately.
Physical Demands: (position and location specific) The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand; climb or balance and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and color vision.
Work Environment: (position and location specific) The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Personal Protective Equipment – (position specific) Must wear PPE as required based on job duties or when traveling to locations where PPE is essential.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
RIO TINTO LITHIUM employs people across a broad range of occupations in locations across the world. We are looking for people to join us in creating, developing, and improving our products, our processes, and our markets. Employees enjoy competitive compensation, a menu of work/life benefits and opportunities to continue developing their skills and building their career.
RIO TINTO LITHIUM is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EEO, AAE, MFDV and supports a drug free workplace.
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.
About Rio Tinto Lithium: On 5 March 2025, Rio Tinto completed the acquisition of Arcadium Lithium and combined it with its Rincon asset to form Rio Tinto Lithium, establishing Rio Tinto as a global leader in the supply of energy transition materials and one of the world’s top lithium producers.
Position Summary: The Project Manager is responsible for guiding projects from initiation to completion, ensuring alignment with business goals and project objectives. They will act as the central hub connecting stakeholders, team members, and leadership throughout the project lifecycle, often working across multiple functional areas and departments.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Manage multiple small to medium capital projects, from start to finish, ranging in value from $100K to $10M.
• Engage with stake holders to define the scope, execution strategy, and estimate the Total Installed Cost of the project.
• Ensure that clear and complete scopes, schedules, and budgets are prepared and accepted by the plant for assigned projects.
• Work with stakeholders to define the project economics and payback.
• Develop and document an execution plan for each project which is scaled to the size and complexity of that project.
• Develops accurate scopes, schedules, and estimates for each of your projects.
• Prepare Appropriations Request documents for corporate capital funds.
• Provide guidance to the project team to accomplish the scope of work and achieve project goals, schedule milestones and cost & quality objectives.
• Work directly with procurement and other resources to ensure that contracts, equipment, supplies, and services needed to execute your projects are put in place and managed.
• Perform engineering reviews and project engineering to support your projects and the projects of others as required.
• Work with on-site and off-site resources to accomplish the scope of work effectively during the project.
• Promptly recognize, document, and communicate any scope, schedule, budget, or design changes and secure client authorization prior to allowing changes.
• Communicate regularly to keep team members and stakeholders up to date on project status, schedule progression, costs, and other critical or contractual items.
• Ensure the accuracy and completeness of all deliverables and services provided by the project.
• Work with Maintenance and Operations during the commissioning and start-up phase.
• Create new and update existing documentation for equipment and systems installed or modified as part of your projects.
• Complete all needed Pre-startup Safety Reviews, support change management processes, and project closeout for your projects.
Education and Experience:
• Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering; Chemical, Mechanical, or Electrical
• Minimum 10 years of industry related experience working as a Project Manager.
Knowledge and Skill Requirements:
• Strong safety champion who will lead the project in achieving zero incidents and injuries.
• Demonstrated knowledge of gated work process for project management and experience managing projects using a gated process.
• Actual manufacturing plant experience.
• Willing and capable of working extended hours or weekends (infrequently) as needed to support plant outages and tight deadline projects.
• Demonstrated knowledge of successful project management practices such as development of scope, schedule, and estimate and subsequent project cost controls and forecasting.
• Knowledge of chemical or related manufacturing facilities and experience managing projects in these facilities.
• Able to proactively plan, organize, and drive projects from inception to start up and completion.
• Ability to work in and foster a strong team environment with minimal supervision.
• Self-motivated/Self-directed.
• Able to handle multiple activities simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Good negotiation and meeting facilitation skills.
• Good working knowledge of the procurement process.
• Knowledge of current versions of industry standard codes, practices, and procedures and their application.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Good presentation skills.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP
Safety Requirements: (position and location specific) All employees are expected to carry out their work functions in a healthy and safe manner, to encourage and support safe work practices at all times, and to report and/or rectify any unsafe conditions that may come to their attention immediately.
Physical Demands: (position and location specific) The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand; climb or balance and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and color vision.
Work Environment: (position and location specific) The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Personal Protective Equipment – (position specific) Must wear PPE as required based on job duties or when traveling to locations where PPE is essential.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
RIO TINTO LITHIUM employs people across a broad range of occupations in locations across the world. We are looking for people to join us in creating, developing, and improving our products, our processes, and our markets. Employees enjoy competitive compensation, a menu of work/life benefits and opportunities to continue developing their skills and building their career.
RIO TINTO LITHIUM is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EEO, AAE, MFDV and supports a drug free workplace.
