Environment Advisor - Rehabilitation

Environment Advisor | Rehabilitation Monitoring

• Global mining organisation with an exceptional safety culture
• Competitive salary and benefits | Permanent full time role
• Diverse portfolio of work across Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore operations
• Perth based role (5 day/week) with occasional site travel

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Environment Advisor to support our Pilbara rehabilitation monitoring program. Within this role, you will use your technical knowledge and interpersonal skills to effectively partner with asset teams, consultants, support services and other key stakeholders to deliver the Pilbara wide rehabilitation monitoring program.

This is a fantastic opportunity to manage a diverse portfolio of work within Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s Environment Operations team on rehabilitation undertaken within the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Working a full time 5 days on, 2 days off Perth based roster and reporting to the Environment Superintendent - Infrastructure, the role broadly entails:

• Partnering with operational teams, support services and consultancies to deliver compliance, closure and rehabilitation monitoring objectives
• Strategic implementation, verification and refinement of the annual work plan scope
• Rehabilitation monitoring data interrogation, interpretation and database management
• Providing accurate and consistent environmental advice and support
• Preparation and delivery of rehabilitation monitoring summaries for compliance reporting purposes

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 Environmental Science or related discipline
• Demonstrated botanical expertise, preferably Pilbara based
• Experience in managing consultants to deliver large work programs
• Sound understanding of Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing technology
• Proven capability in the analysis and presentation of environmental data
• Ability to work autonomously with reliability and accuracy.

What we offer

• 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
• 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
• Relocation packages where suitable.

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 is Perth based in our centrally located head office at Central Park. With flexible working arrangements you will also be able to work from home as per your leader’s discretion and operational requirements. From time to time, you will be required to travel on an ad hoc basis.

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets: 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

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.

Applications close on 2 Sep 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)