Business Partner - Health, Safety and Environment - Yarwun

Business Partner - Health, Safety and Environment - Yarwun

• Be part of a team that is people-orientated, safety and results driven, while valuing inclusion
• Challenging and dynamic leadership position based in Gladstone
• Join Yarwun alumina refinery, celebrating 20 years of operations
• Make impact through meaningful HSE project work, including decarbonisation and expansion project initiatives

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Business Partner Health, Safety and Environment to oversee health, safety and environment programs, to ensure they are efficiently and effectively implemented and meet local regulatory requirements at our Yarwun alumina refinery.

This is a great opportunity for a collaborative and engaging leader with a passion for coaching people and developing capacity in both the operational and HSEC teams. Key focus is in building site engagement to ensure effective support is provided.

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.

As part of the senior leadership team at Yarwun, you will enjoy a variety of challenging and rewarding work due to exposure to, and involvement with, a highly complex processing plant. Reporting to the Senior HSE Business Partner Pacific Operations; working in a collaborative community and exciting environment within the Pacific Operations Environment Team, you will be:

• Managing the HSE function on site, determine priorities, allocate resources and deliver assurance
• Coaching and influencing leadership on HSE aspects and zero harm culture
• Collaborating with site leadership, contractors and community stakeholders
• Implementing processes to effectively control the critical safety risks
• Coaching, training and supporting the development of aspiring local HSE professionals, to provide a legacy of experience for the safe operation of the refinery
• Translate business strategies, objectives and context into a HSE implementation plan
• Provide input as part of the leadership team to shape the business HSE strategy
• Proactively identify threats and opportunities to business objectives based on trends derived from data, conversations and observations

What you’ll bring

Your care for others, strong leadership skills and passion for HSE will see you excel in this position. You will lead a diverse team of HSE professionals and promote a culture of inclusion, providing clear direction for the team through strong coaching and collaboration. You will liaise with a broad range of stakeholders in this role. Your strength in influencing outside of authority, coupled with clear and confident communication, will be integral to successful outcomes. You will demonstrate:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Bachelor degree in relevant field will be highly regarding, though not mandatory
• Proven experience in a leadership role
• Highly effective engagement, communication and consulting skills
• Ability to influence strategy; translate strategy into practical and innovative solutions; and deliver improved productivity
• Ability to anticipate future functional and operational business needs, and effectively deploy functional resources to achieve agreed outcomes
• Ability to design and deliver solution options beyond your immediate area of expertise, through personal knowledge, skill, experience, and networks
• Strong leadership skills

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
• A permanent 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)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

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 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

Located in Central Queensland, approximately 10km north-west of Gladstone, Yarwun alumina refinery commenced operations in 2004. Processing bauxite from our mines in Weipa and Gove, Yarwun produces more than three million tonnes of smelter grade alumina annually.

As one of the largest industries in the Gladstone region, Yarwun employs over 700 people and has a large contractor workforce.

With a focus on safely improving our process every day, the team at Yarwun challenge themselves to use existing and emerging technology to support our 24 hour operation.

Yarwun is a proud member of the Gladstone community, and along with Boyne Smelters Limited and Queensland Alumina Limited, support community investments that improve the liveability of the Gladstone region through the Here for Gladstone community fund.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we want you to be you. We want everyone, everywhere, to feel their voice is heard and respected and we’re committed to fostering a culture where individual differences—whatever they may be—are appreciated and valued. It’s what makes us safer, more productive, improves our decision-making, and helps us to create better relationships with our communities.

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Apply today if you want to work with the latest technology and innovation, in an environment where we support you to drive positive change.

Please note, to be successfully considered for a role you must complete all pre-screening questions.

Applications close on 11 February 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).