Advisor Health & Safety - Facilities

Advisor Health & Safety | Facilities

• Are you looking for your next challenge and want to work in a forward-thinking team making positive changes?
• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
• FIFO ex Perth - 5 /2, 4 /3 Days only Roster

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

Rio Tinto is 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 are looking to appoint a Health & Safety Advisor to support and deliver H&S services across the Facilities division of Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s business unit. This is a great opportunity for someone with a strong passion for health and safety to be part of the Rio Tinto HSEC Team.

This role is offered on a permanent full-time basis, FIFO from Perth on a 5 days on / 2 days off, 4 days on / 3 days off roster.

Reporting to the Manager Health, Safety, Environment and Communities, you will be required to work autonomously focusing on:

• Partnering with our major contract partner to implement their Health and Safety program on the ground.
• Supporting the implementation of the safety maturity improvement plan for Facilities, including the coordination of mid-year and end of year safety maturity assessments.
• Actively participate in performance rituals and cadences that support HSEC integration.
• Promote, participate and support the health and safety fundamentals and RT safe production system deployments. 
• Continue to support operational risk reduction activities and initiatives.
• Support the training and assurance activities for psychosocial risk management.
• Provide support for divisional health promotion initiatives.
• Provide incident management and investigation guidance to ensure alignment to HSEQ standards. Provide support, monitoring and analysis of incident and action recording, implementation, and closure.
• Risk assessment coaching and facilitation. 
• Support frontline leaders in the development and mentoring of Health & Safety Representatives.
• Champion and coach operational team members on the importance of CRM and understanding “the why”.
• Coach and support assurance programs to verify compliance and control performance to Rio Tinto systems, procedures and standards (e.g. working with site standards champions &/or RTIO working groups).
• Undertake data analytics and provide insights for guidance and recommendations for continuous reduction on exposure to risk, focusing on critical control effectiveness.

What you’ll bring

• Demonstrated experience in working in an operational health and safety role, a relevant health and safety qualification and/or a passion for, and sound knowledge of health and safety practices
• Ability to work autonomously is essential
• Strong engaging and influencing skills, with the ability to proactively support leaders
• An ability to work in a fast-paced environment managing competing priorities supporting multiple stakeholder groups
• Excellent computer literacy including use of various reporting systems
• Treating everyone in line with everyday respect and be an upstander.
• Sharing and seeking out knowledge, best practice and resources across the HSEC function and RTIO.
• Demonstrated effective interpersonal skills, to enable forming relationships with leaders based on trust and constructive challenge.
• Taking ownership for own performance and decisions and their impact on the business.
• Technical knowledge of legislation and Rio Tinto Health and Safety Standards.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated analytical data skills that provide insights, trends and action plans.
• Demonstrated ability to plan and coordinate in an organised and flexible manner.

What we offer

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

• A work environment where safety, wellbeing and Everyday Respect is always the number one priority
• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements
• 18 weeks of gender-neutral and equal paid parental leave, with continued superannuation contributions whilst employees are on unpaid or half paid parental leave
• 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); and
• Local relocation packages offered for Australian residents only

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive. We have been mining for almost 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents.

Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities.

Where you’ll be working

Rio Tinto owns and operates an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets that include 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.

Every Voice Matters

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.

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.