Advisor Governance and Risk

Advisor Closure Governance & Risk 

• Be part of a group that is safety drive and values inclusive
• Join or global leading business offering outstanding personal development
• 24-Month Fixed Term Contract based in Perth or Brisbane

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for an Advisor Closure Governance & Risk to support risk owners in maintaining currency and quality of risk information, whilst assisting leaders in using risk to inform business decisions. You will work closely with the Closure Risk Business Partners to support closed assets located primarily in the APAC and EMEA regions. You will also support the Closure Governance and Assurance team’s delivery of governance initiatives including support to the Closure Steering Committee.

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.

Reporting to the Principal Advisor Governance & Risk, you will:

• Engage with Closure Leaders and Asset Managers to support initiatives associated with risk management and decision making, ensuring risks and associated actions are incorporated into annual and multi-year plans
• Provide oversight and advice regarding the risk management process and use of the risk information system in supporting decision making and application of the global controls library
• Coordinate and facilitate regular risk reviews with risk owners and studies lead, supported by the Risk Business Partners
• Ensure the quality, currency and connectedness of risk and control information in the Risk Information System
• Maintaining effective relationships with asset managers, risk owners, assurance providers and recipients across the business
• Provide support to the Secretariat of the Closure Steering Committee in the coordination, preparation, and follow-up of material to be presented

What you’ll bring

To be considered for this role, you will have:

• A commitment to the safety or yourself and your team
• Prior experience either in a risk governance focused role or mining operational/project experience within the environment, communities, or a site-based operational area
• Relevant background degree in a technical or social sciences area would be beneficial
• Proficiency in PowerPoint, with Archer or Power BI experience preferred
• Excellent project management, problem solving and organisational capability
• Self-starting, proactive approach to developing and maintaining stakeholder relationships

What we offer

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

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A 2 year fixed term position working directly for Rio Tinto
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• 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)
• Relocation assistance where necessary

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 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

Rio Tinto’s Development and Technology group engages and partner with Rio Tinto businesses across 73 operating sites, 35 countries and 6 continents to help create value, manage risk and innovate for the future, whilst providing range of support and services functions, to ensure technical optimisation, establish and transfer best practices, develop strategies to drive performance improvements, and ensure that technical innovation provides a source of long-term competitive advantage.

Rio Tinto Closure safely transforms Rio Tinto’s end of life mining, processing and infrastructure assets by developing innovative and sustainable solutions to leave a positive closure legacy. We collaborate with all parts of Rio Tinto to focus on maximizing post operational opportunities, de-risking and reducing the scale of closure liabilities and executing existing and near-term closures at optimal cost.

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 on Tuesday the 18^th of April 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).