Lead Project Document Controller

Rio Tinto; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Lead Project Document Controller, where you will play a vital role in managing document control processes for major projects. This position offers an exciting opportunity to work in a collaborative environment, ensuring effective document management while engaging with diverse stakeholders. You'll be part of a global team that values innovation and safety, contributing to the success of a world-class mining operation. If you thrive in dynamic settings and are passionate about driving process improvements, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Generous benefits package

Annual cash incentive awards

Family-friendly health programs

Excellent retirement plan

Employee share program

Comprehensive leave policies

Child-caregiver leave program

Discount programs for leisure

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Career development support

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in document control on large projects.
• Ability to manage document control teams and processes.

Responsibilities

• Manage document control for the Integrated Skarns Project.
• Train team members in document control tools and processes.

Skills

Document Control

Stakeholder Engagement

Team Leadership

Project Management

Process Improvement

Tools

InEight Document

SharePoint

Job description

• Be part of a team supporting global projects and studies
• Excellent work environment where people are valued and respected
• Full time permanent position based in Salt Lake City, Utah

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Lead Project Document Controller to provide and ensure a proficient, effective, timely and quality document management and control service throughout the Project’s lifecycle, across dispersed teams, time-zones, and geographies, whilst being based in Salt Lake City. This role is part of an exciting central function, supporting the Integrated Skarns Project (Kennecott Copper Mine).

This role is a great opportunity for a team player who has great stakeholder engagement skills, team leadership experience and a strong understanding of Document Control processes. The successful candidate will also be involved in project set up, contractor engagement and onboarding and implementing ongoing process improvements.

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 Superintendent – Project Data Management and working in an exciting and collaborative team, within Rio Tinto Projects, you will:

• Be responsible for the day-to-day delivery of document control on the Integrated Skarns Project (Kennecott Copper Mine).
• Onboard, train and provide ongoing support to team members, and external partners, in document control tools and processes
• Engage with stakeholders to ensure a standard implementation of document control requirements
• Manage controlled documents through the project lifecycle to ensure documents are safe, secured, and ready to handover to Operations when required
• Ensure compliance with Rio Tinto, external standards, and Document Management and Control guidance for major projects
• Undertake quality assurance activities to ensure accuracy and the proper classification and identification of controlled documents
• Provide project leadership with regular reports on the progress of document control
• Work with the wider PDM team to identify and implement process and system improvements

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Substantial experience in a document control role working on large projects 5+ years
• Previous experience in managing small to medium document control teams
• Excellent collaboration and engagement skills dealing with stakeholders’ groups and team members
• Previous exposure in installing and managing Document Control systems and processes
• Previous experience in project set-up and contract/project close-out and handover
• Previous experience in managing suppliers, contractors and/or vendor teams
• Ability to oversee, manage and report on the team’s workload
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced work environment

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Document Control experience across the project lifecycle, from Order of Magnitude study to handover and close-out
• Experience working at or supporting projects on site
• Prior experience with InEight Document and SharePoint

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

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers. For 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress. Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities, and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Where you will be working

Our Kennecott mine is a world-class, fully integrated copper mining operation, including a concentrator, smelter and refinery, located just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. We produce copper, precious metals including gold and silver, molybdenum and sulfuric acid. Kennecott has been mining and processing minerals from the rich ore body of the Bingham Canyon Mine since 1903, and is one of the top producing mines in the world, comprising approximately 11 percent of U.S. annual copper production.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 community, mature workers, people with disabilities, and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable being 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.

About the company

Rio Tinto Group is an Anglo-Australian multinational and the world's second largest metals and mining corporation, behind BHP, producing iron ore, copper, diamonds, gold and uranium.