- Excellent opportunity to be part of a world-class underground mining project
- Great exposure and development opportunities within the Owner’s team
- Collaborative and high performing environment at an exciting location
- Residential
About Your Role
Oyu Tolgoi LLC is operating a copper-gold mine in southern territory of Mongolia. The company aspires a vision ‘Natural wealth to enduring value, knowledge, and skill’, and pursues a mission, 'Together deliver a safe and globally competitive copper business that contributes to the prosperity of Mongolia' to build one of the largest copper-gold mine worldwide. The incumbent works to deliver these mission and vision, together with all members of the company, while supporting the OT Underground Project (OTUG) and Future Growth Studies for the purpose of achieving its organizational strategic plan.
The function of this role relates to providing accurate and credible maintenance of schedules (including progress reporting), timely cost insights and rigorous cost management, clear and accurate reporting and document control.
- Develops and implements the project controls processes including all aspects of planning forecasting cost control and supporting functions.
- Identifies and implements improvement opportunities for streamlining work process.
- Applies discipline governance and quality assurance across capital projects.
- Maintains relationships with key stakeholders to drive a culture of collaboration, participation and improvement.
- Analyses and reports progress to plan to provide a firm basis for strategic and operational decisions.
- Manages and develops the performance of the team in line with Rio Tinto’s company values, in order to achieve objectives.
- Contributes to the capital projects guidance and protocols in the capital projects framework.
About You
To be successfully considered for this role, you will have the following
- Outstanding commitment to HSE and Quality
- At least 10 years’ experience of working within a Project Controls Function
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on operational efficiency and reliability.
- Deliver to plan by enabling the team to translate targets into actions with a focus on the key performance drivers and critical controls.
- Make informed decisions based on a thorough analysis of key business information and metrics and the associated risks, benefits and trade-offs.
- Effectively manage the deployment of capital and assets to balance short- and longer-term business requirements.
- Proactively seek improvement opportunities and initiate innovative solutions that lead to improved business performance.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrated ability to work as part of an integrated delivery team
- An ability to work autonomously within a highly complex project delivery environment
- A can-do attitude that seeks to provide solutions and a desire for continuous improvement desire to pass on your wealth of industry experience and knowledge in order to accelerate development of capability and knowledge amongst the company and contractor national workforce.
It will also be beneficial if you have
- Experience in mining projects
- Experience in working overseas
Where you will be working
Oyu Tolgoi is an operating Copper / Gold open pit mine with a brownfields underground mining project. The site is located in the Gobi desert region of Mongolia. The reserves case for the underground project is in the order of 0.5 billion tonnes of ore to be mined from the 95,000 tonnes per day Hugo North Lift 1 (HNL1) panel cave mine with a 20 year operations life. There is also the potential for 3 further block cave districts to increase mine life beyond 100 years.
About Us
As pioneers in mining and metals, we produce materials essential to human progress.
Aluminium for cars and smartphones. Copper for wind turbines, electric cars and the pipes that bring water to our home. Iron ore to shape our city skylines. Borates that help crops grow, titanium for paint – and diamonds that celebrate the best things in life.
Our long history is filled with firsts. We’ve developed some of the world’s largest and best quality mines and operations, and our people work in around 35 countries across six continents.
Creating an inclusive and diverse workforce
We are a diverse team of talented, enthusiastic individuals who foster a culture of inclusion. No matter how they may differ, our people share one thing in common. It’s a belief that work is more rewarding when we are accepted and valued for our differences, not judged by them. We all have something to contribute, and it’s this contribution that makes for a great organization and fulfilling career.
Application Deadline
Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.
“Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings prior to the stated closing date, therefore, if you are interested in applying for this vacancy please submit your application as soon as possible.”
Deadline of the advertisement is on April 9, 2025
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 Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ 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.
