Our Opportunity
Work Location: Perth - Fortescue’s Perth office is located on the traditional lands of the Whadjuk Noongar people.
Roster: Monday to Friday
Reporting to the Head of Land and Access, this role will support the delivery of the land strategy to secure lands for future renewable energy projects and enable the delivery of Fortescue’s renewable energy aspirations. This role will require interfacing with multiple functions and departments and an exceptional ability to manage diverse workloads and priorities and deliver quality and timely results.
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with Land Advisors in supporting execution of APAC and Global Land project land assembly plans via an optimal combination of acquisitions, contract rights, mining and other regulatory permits, licences and leases.
- Maintain and ensure all contract documents are accurately recorded in Fortescue’s systems.
- Track key dates, milestones, renewals and compliance obligations.
- Work closely with Legal, Commercial, Native Title, Project Approvals, Environment, Heritage and project controls teams, to ensure coordination and alignment.
- Develop and maintain project coordination tools including logs of stakeholder engagement and other project management and coordination tools relevant to contract administration.
- Develop and maintain optimal tools to capture and present information on land rights and interests including capturing land access agreements in the relevant database (PX4) and ensuring validity of agreements to meet long term land access requirements.
- Carry out due diligence enquiries on properties (such as title searches) and prepare reports setting out findings.
- Coordinate Governance and Compliance checks with Legal team.
- Coordinate landholder exclusive collaboration contracts, NDA’s and similar agreements, including working with Legal on novel and complex issues.
- Coordinate the land access component of Land Use Certificates (LUCs) on InfoScope to ensure safe and valid access to properties under Fortescue agreement or ownership (non-Mining access).
- Planning meetings and organising project logistics and travel requirements for the team, including the preparation of Journey Management Plans, finalisation of presentation materials and set-up of stakeholder meetings.
- Note: due to the global nature of the Fortescue business and essential interactions with colleagues and consultants operating in different time zones, occasional on-line meetings are required outside of standard business hours
Qualifications and Experience
- Experience in commercial support (Essential)
- Knowledge of WA land tenure classifications (Desirable)
- Experience as a para-legal (Desirable)
- High capability in using databases and systems to manage information
- Ability to interact constructively across all levels and functions to deliver outcomes
- Strong eye for attention to detail and accuracy
- Belief in the value of team and collaboration
- High levels of self-motivation with demonstrated ability in resilience when managing diverse workloads and priorities and deliver quality and timely results
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
About Us
Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.
Our Commitment
Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members 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. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ 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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Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub.
Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.
