Advisor Environment - Sustaining Capital | Perth

nvironment Advisor – Sustaining Capital Projects | Perth

• Perm Full Time | Competitive salary and benefits
• Diverse portfolio | Pilbara based projects work
• Perth based role (5 day/week) with ad hoc site travel

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for an experienced Environment Advisor to support our Sustaining Capital Projects team. Within this role, you will use your technical knowledge and interpersonal skills to effectively partner with projects and other key stakeholders, enabling effective environmental management to occur.

This is a fantastic opportunity to manage a diverse portfolio of work within Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s Sustaining Capital team on projects undertaken within the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting. We lead with heart developing confident, empowered leaders who meaningfully engage with heart, care, courage, and curiosity.

Working a full time 5 days on, 2 days off Perth based roster and reporting to the Environment Superintendent, the role broadly entails:

• Partnering with operational teams to support effective environmental risk management;
• Prioritising support for projects based on risk;
• Implementation and verification of the business’ environmental management system;
• Managing a diverse range of operational environmental issues, for example; land clearing, rehabilitation, waste management, environmental design criteria, air quality and hydrocarbon/contamination management;
• Preparing and submitting compliance reports required in association with our licences to operate;
• Project managing contractors and consultants providing environmental services;
• Providing environmental advice in the interpretation of legislation, acts and regulations

What you’ll bring

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• A strong attitude towards safety
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• A Bachelor’s degree in an Environmental or related discipline
• Sound knowledge of key concepts, theories and practices related to the control of environment related risks, legal compliance requirements and environmental management systems
• Demonstrated experience in managing projects
• Demonstrated experience in executing technical environment related work activities
• Ability to work autonomously and independently with reliability and accuracy.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• 18 weeks of gender-neutral and equal paid parental leave, with continued superannuation contributions whilst employees are on unpaid or half paid parental leave
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Company provided insurance cover
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Local relocation packages offered for Australian residents only

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 you’ll be working

This role will be based in Central Park offices, Perth CBD. You will be required to travel to our Pilbara operations on an ad hoc basis.

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets supported by functional teams in the Perth hub: a world-class, integrated network of 16 mines, four independent port terminals, a 1,700 kilometre rail network and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand.

We are one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of iron ore.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ 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.

Applications close 23 September 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)