Communications and Engagement Specialists

Communications and Engagement Specialists

• Use your skills and creativity to craft communications to engage our people
• Help demonstrate our values of care, courage and curiosity
• Support our vision to be the most valued resource business and a company that puts people at our heart
• Pilbara-based roles at either Paraburdoo or Brockman on FIFO 5/2, 4/3 rosters from Perth. Option to be residentially based at Paraburdoo also.

About the role

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

We are looking for Communications and Engagement Specialists to enhance Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s communications and engagement, with our workforce and across the communities in which we operate.

These roles report to the Mine Site General Manager, with a direct line to the Principal Advisor – Communications. The role provides communications expertise and deliverables to the General Manager, management team and site leaders, ensuring leaders are aligned on priorities and messaging, whilst liaising with the Communications and External Affairs team.

Key duties include:

• Adhere to all Rio Tinto Health and Safety standards, policies and procedures and report any safety hazards and risks to the appropriate channels
• Develop, coordinate and distribute site-specific communications and engagement that support key business priorities
• Ensure effective distribution of content via various channels
• Develop site Communications Action Plans and ensure a regular drumbeat of communications
• Implement communication strategies that promote positive engagement amongst the workforce
• Liaise with other site business areas and contractors to support site activities
• Identify positive stories that can be shared with site, all of Iron Ore and/or externally to enhance the reputation of site and Rio Tinto Iron Ore
• Support the leadership team to identify and escalate potentially contentious issues and develop strategic communications and engagement to manage risks
• Provide strategic and tactical communications and engagement advice and assistance to site leaders
• Monitor, report and evaluate communications and engagement impact on driving key site priorities
• Maintain regular liaison with External Affairs and Communications team
• Provide best practice advice on site communication content and channels and effectiveness
• Ensure appropriate alignment of Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s strategy with site communications.

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have: 

• Strong communication / interpersonal skills to influence stakeholders and build effective partnerships
• Demonstrated background in providing strategic advice in communications
• Ability to support events and engagement opportunities with the workforce
• A drive and eagerness to develop
• Ability to work autonomously, drive outcomes and meet action plans
• Microsoft Office skills
• Current C class drivers’ licence.

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Related industry exposure
• Experience in filming, photography and video editing.

What we offer

• 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 an 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 and salary packaging options
• Career development and 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).

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.

This role is for applicants residing in or willing to permanently relocate to Western Australia. Rio Tinto offers Fly in and fly out options from Perth, our regional FIFO hubs and the opportunity to live in our residential towns where applicable.

Applications close on 24^th January 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

About Rio Tinto

For nearly 150 years we’ve been looking for new and better ways of doing things. This drive for innovation and continuous improvement is at the heart of our company's purpose: Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

Today, you'll find our teams around the world doing just that: seeking opportunities to reduce our carbon footprint, partnering to develop new technologies to decarbonise steel and aluminium production, and creating new products from waste.

Our ambition is to be a business with a commodity mix that is aligned with evolving customer demand in a decarbonising world. A home for curious people, who care about their work and colleagues, and are courageous about finding better ways to do things and are empowered to adapt quickly to solve problems and meet opportunities. And the partner of choice for customers, governments and communities

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 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.