Exploration Manager

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Rio Tinto Full time

**Exploration Manager - Africa**
- Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion.
- Roles are based in **Johannesburg -SA**

**About the role**

**_ Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs._**

An exciting opportunity exists for an Exploration Manager - Africa to be based in Johannesburg working collaboratively with local Country Managers and a virtual team of technical experts from across RTX to deliver discovery by maximising exploration effectiveness and efficiency for multiple jurisdictions/limited commodities, or multiple commodities across limited jurisdictions.

Reporting to the **Exploration Director** you will:

- Understand and interpret the technical, fiscal, legal, commercial, economic, community and corporate drivers that impact upon creating value through discovery.
- Manage large and potentially multi-disciplinary teams of managers and/or senior professionals. Operating within a highly diverse and complex environment, the Exploration Manager has a view to sustaining the business over a >3-year timeframe
- Leading a multidisciplinary technical team, looking at multiple jurisdictions/limited commodities, or multiple commodities in limited jurisdictions through early-stage phases of the exploration process from concept and target generation, through target testing and onward to Project of Merit.
- Managing commercial, legal and statutory obligations across several regional, state or country jurisdictions. The role ensures that Rio Tinto compliance obligations are met across the entire breadth of the portfolio and all stages of the exploration process.
- Planning for the long term; creating conditions for future success by building and developing effective teams, securing government and community agreements that will permit and support exploration long into the future and by introducing technologies or practices that will create and sustain competitive advantage.
- Contributes to the development of functional or departmental strategy. Controls resources and policy formation in area of responsibility. Looks beyond existing methodologies and own discipline to define and resolve complex problems.
- The role interacts with a range of Rio Tinto PG/BU teams, governments, regional or local communities, research agencies and competitors. Develops a comprehensive stakeholder understanding and builds relationships with key external stakeholders (governments, local communities, civil society) to establish Rio Tinto’s reputation as a preferred partner by clearly demonstrating corporate technical ability and commitment to sustainability.

**What you’ll bring**
- Degree tertiary qualification in geoscience or related field
- Atleast 15 or more years of experience of which 8 years in should be in a senior leadership role
- Highly developed leadership skills including the ability to build and develop high performing teams across professional, technical and corporate support functions.
- Significant experience in senior leadership roles in multi-commodity resource environments, including exploration.
- Strong strategy development skills and ability to align regional exploration goals to global strategy.
- Demonstrated ability to develop strong and productive working relationships with a wide range of people including within a cross cultural, multi-language environment.
- Highly proficient in English (verbal and written)

**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 nearly 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 we’re all welcome**

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 and/ or anything else that makes us different.

We acknowledge that all people are different and believe that our differences are our strength. The diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our teams enhance our way of working and our ability to achieve success together.

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