**Superintendent Project Management – Comitá Project** * Be part of a team driven by safety and goal achievement. * Great opportunity to continue developing your leadership skills. * Live our values: Care, Courage, and Curiosity. * Position based in Medellín, Colombia. **About the position** **Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.** The Superintendent Project Management role is responsible for planning and delivering the project timeline through managing contracts, resources, budgets, changes, and risks. This position will oversee the planning, coordination, and management of the project timeline via schedule monitoring and control, progress tracking, and implementation of recovery plans when necessary. This involves collaborating with the Study Lead, team members, and stakeholders to identify tasks, establish deadlines, and allocate resources. They will also be responsible for providing accurate and timely reports, which will be critical for making informed and timely decisions. **Responsibilities & key focus areas** * Project Schedule Development: Create detailed schedules that include all project activities, milestones, and deliverables, in accordance with Rio Tinto standards and study guidelines. * Facilitate communication among different teams to ensure all parties are informed about deadlines and dependencies. * Maintain and update schedules to reflect actual progress, scope changes, or resource availability. * Monitor trends and resource efficiency to inform strategic decisions and improve project outcomes. * Guide and influence stakeholders at all levels to achieve critical project milestones and align with the broader business strategy. * Report project status—including schedule status, risks, and variances—to the Study Lead and stakeholders. * Manage project interfaces through continuous leadership, collaboration, and influence across internal and external stakeholders. **What you need to be considered for this role** * Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Project Management, Business Administration, or a related field (required). * Certifications such as PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP) or Primavera certifications may be advantageous. * Required proficiency in scheduling software: Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project, as well as performance tracking tools. * Experience: Minimum 10 years on large-scale projects, ideally within the mining or energy sectors. * Required analytical skills to analyze project requirements, dependencies, and resource constraints in order to build accurate schedules. * Time management: efficiently prioritize tasks and manage multiple schedules simultaneously. * Problem solving: proactively identify scheduling conflicts and propose effective solutions. * Risk management: familiarity with identifying, assessing, and mitigating schedule-related risks. * Experience managing both personnel and material resources to align with project schedules. * Experience coordinating activities across diverse teams and managing interdependencies. * Experience in change management: handling scope changes and updating schedules to reflect project adjustments. * Experience interacting with vendors and internal stakeholders to communicate schedule updates and resolve issues effectively. * Proven success in remote and logistically complex environments typical of operations in Colombia. * Strong communication skills in both Spanish and English, with the ability to influence at all organizational levels. * Commitment to safety, sustainability, and operational excellence, aligned with Rio Tinto’s values. **English** **Superintendent Project Management – Comitá Project** * Be part of a team driven by safety and goal achievement. * Great opportunity to continue developing your leadership skills. * Live our values: Care, Courage, and Curiosity. * Position based in Medellín, Colombia. **About the position** **Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.** Superintendent Project Management is accountable for the planning and delivery of the project timeline through managing contracts, resources, budgets, changes, and risks. This role will be required to oversee the planning, coordination and management of the project timeline through the schedule monitoring and control, tracking progress, and implementing recovery plans when necessary. This involves collaborating with the Study Lead, team members and stakeholders to identify tasks, set deadlines, and allocate resources. They will also be responsible for providing accurate and timely reports, which will be crucial for making informed and timely decisions. **Responsibilities & key focus areas** * Developing Project Schedules: Creating detailed schedules that map out all project activities, milestones, and deliverables according to Rio Tinto standards and study guidelines. * Facilitating communication between different teams to ensure everyone is informed of deadlines and dependencies. * Maintaining and updating Schedules to reflect actual progress, changes in scope, or resource availability. * Monitor trends and resource efficiency to inform strategic decisions and enhance project outcomes. * Guide and influence stakeholders at all levels to achieve critical project milestones and align with broader business strategy. * Reporting project status for Study Lead, and stakeholders on schedule status, risk and variances. * Manage project interfaces through continuous leadership, collaboration, and influence across internal and external stakeholders. **What you will bring and require to be considered for this role** * Required: Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Project Management, Business Administration, or a related field (required). * Certifications such as PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP), or Primavera certifications can be advantageous. * Required proficiency in scheduling software: Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project and performance tracking tools. * Experience: Minimum 10 years in large-scale projects, ideally in mining or energy sectors. * Required analytical skills to analyze project requirements, dependencies and resource constraints to build accurate timelines. * Time management, efficiently prioritizing tasks and managing multiple schedules simultaneously. * Problem-Solving, proactively identifying scheduling conflicts and proposing effective solutions. * Risk Management: familiarity with identifying, assessing, and mitigating schedule risk. * Experience in managing resources, personal and material, to align with project timelines. * Experience coordinating activities among diverse teams and managing interdependence. * Experience in Change Management, handling scope changes and updating schedules to reflect project adjustments. * Experience interacting with vendors, internal stakeholders to communicate schedule updates and proven solving. * Proven success in remote, and logistically complex environments typical of Colombia operations. * Strong communication skills in Spanish and English, with the ability to influence across all organizational levels. * Committed to safety, sustainability, and operational excellence, aligned with Rio Tinto’s values. **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. **Respect and Inclusion** 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.