Manager - Regeneration Enterprises

Manager, Regeneration Projects

• Great opportunity to join a global mining organization in a senior manager level role offering outstanding personal development & career opportunities.
• We offer competitive compensation, paid parental leave entitlements and flexible work arrangements.
• Permanent full-time role based in Salt Lake City, UT or Superior, AZ

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

In November 2021 a Joint Venture Agreement was developed between Rio Tinto and RESOLVE (a Washington DC Based NGO) to establish Regeneration Enterprises a start-up that creates biodiversity, community, and climate positive minerals for the energy transition, green tech, and sustainable brands through remining, reprocessing, and restoration (www.regeneration.enterprises).

Rio Tinto took the position as founding partner and catalytic funder in Regeneration to enable the development of an alternative financial structure to support remediation at legacy and closed sites in the portfolio. Specifically, to do so in a way that combines remining of any unconventional orebodies (residual ore below RT cut off grades, tailings, waste rock piles and/or wastewater) with site closure and restoration, drawing finance from alternative sources including green capital, and linking to consumer facing brands willing to pay a price premium for ‘green’ metals.

The Manager, Regeneration Projects will be responsible for supporting the effective delivery of Regeneration projects at Rio Tinto assets and closure sites, as well as other sites as designated by Rio Tinto from time to time. The role will also be responsible for being the key relationship manager between the Rio Tinto and Regeneration Enterprises teams, including supporting the Rio Tinto member and observer on the Regeneration Board as required.

The role will report to the GM Strategy and Optimization in Closure, with a dotted reporting line to the Chief Operating Officer in Regeneration Enterprises.

What you’ll bring

To be successful in this role you will bring:

• Previous experience in project scoping, planning, options assessment, risk assessment and project design.
• Experience in developing and overseeing workplans and managing contractors to safely execute projects on time and on budget.
• Understanding of contract management and ability to prepare statements of work to support commercial negotiations and contracting.
• Establish and enforce health and safety processes and promote a safe work environment
• Experience in ensuring compliance of all activities with regulatory requirements and relevant standards and procedures.
• Ability to monitor project progress and set deadlines and provide effective reports to management
• Ability to allocate and optimize resources to meet projects goals and manage project budgets and ensure effective cost control
• Leadership and confidence to develop, own and execute site solutions and the drive to support their delivery.
• Excellent communication and strong project management and organizational skills
• Alignment to the objectives of Regeneration Enterprises – specifically to use remining and the development of novel funding structures including environmental credits to fund the ecological restoration of closure and legacy sites.
• Balance of technical expertise and excellent people skills, able to lead and motivate a project team to be successful.
• Relationship driven and able to ensure the effective flow of information between Regeneration Enterprises and Rio Tinto

What we offer

We are committed to providing our employees with a generous benefits package. Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking, your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress, we provide:

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• Advantageous salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees
• Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits.
• Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401k matching program
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program, which allows you to purchase Rio Tinto Company shares.
• Comprehensive leave policies which cover all moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.
• A favorable child-caregiver leave program (Up to 100% salary top-up)
• Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing
• Ongoing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family; to help in addressing educational opportunities, addiction treatment, depression, stress, domestic issues, financial management, and legal concerns.
• Our team and industry experts are here to support and work with you to explore your learning potential and career goals

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.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ+ community, mature workers, Veterans and active-duty armed forces, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

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