Heidi Edwards

Heidi Edwards leads the maintenance engineering team responsible for Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s hydrocarbon assets across the Pilbara. Some of her career highlights include managing a $3.2 million upgrade of a new fuel facility, at less than 65% of the original budget in less than half of the original timeframe and developing and implementing Pilbara-wide strategies for management of oily water assets and diesel filtration assets, resulting of cost savings of over $1 million. Ms Edwards has volunteered in various roles, including teaching English to new immigrants, running computer tutorials and developing computer-based tools to help small business owners in automated business reporting. Ms Edwards is the 2014 CME Women in Resources award winner for Outstanding Young Woman in Resources.