AddressManager First Nations Governance and Compliance
Country/Region: AU
State: WA
City: Perth
Job ID: 3108
About Us
Fortescue is both a proud West Australian company and a global green solutions business. We are recognised for our culture, innovation and industry-leading development of infrastructure, mining assets and green energy initiatives.
Our Opportunity
Work Location: Perth Fortescue Centre. Fortescue's Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk people.
Roster: Monday to Friday
The Manager, First Nations Governance and Compliance will take a strategic approach to delivering expanding heritage compliance and formal consultation and engagement frameworks with traditional custodian groups to achieve critical business priorities.
Reporting to the Senior Manager, First Nations Strategy and Approvals you will work closely with First Nations teams, the broader business and our traditional custodian stakeholders to drive an industry leading approach to consultation, governance processes and commitments, compliance and protection of heritage across our operations.
A role for a creative problem-solver with experience developing and leading a team to shape a positive, high-performance culture.
Key Responsibilities
The Manager First Nations Governance and Compliance is accountable for:
Delivering leadership in heritage compliance for sites, projects and heritage teams on the management of Fortescue's heritage obligations
Deliver and further develop Fortescue's risk-management approach to heritage compliance
End-to-end direction, coordination and delivery of working group meetings and related governance processes with Native Title partners.
Delivery of heritage compliance obligations and liaison with all relevant teams across the business to ensure Fortescue manages compliance risk.
Incident investigation
Governance functions for the First Nations team, including risk, audit and reporting.
The Manager, First Nations Governance and Compliance role is tasked with further developing, leading and influencing a high-performance culture across all relevant teams to shape the delivery of a critical enabler of the First Nation's team success - our formal engagement opportunities with our Traditional Custodian groups.
The Manager, First Nations Governance and Compliance delivers through maintaining strong, strategic relationships with stakeholders in the First Nations teams and across the business to support delivery against core functions.
The Manager, First Nations Governance and Compliance ensures Fortescue's internal and external compliance obligations are met, overseeing a team supporting all aspects of heritage compliance.
Qualifications and Experience
As a successful candidate you will have the following:
- Experience developing and leading teams in the mining industry
- A solid understanding of mining operations is essential, operations or heritage experience desirable
- Experience working with traditional custodian groups in the Pilbara
- Strategic thinking capability and a willingness to develop creative solutions to problems
Our Commitment
Fortescue is deeply committed to providing a safe culture that builds respect, fosters inclusiveness, and values diversity. We celebrate individual strengths and team members from all backgrounds are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with across the world. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with differing abilities, LGBTIQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
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