Executive Assistant

Executive Assistant

• Be part of a Global team challenging the future
• Permanent employment with a range of additional benefits
• Flexible working policy
• Role based in Brisbane

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

The Business Conduct Office are currently looking for an Executive Assistant to join their Team to support the Chief Business Conduct Officer and the Business Conduct Office team.

A great opportunity for an experienced, hands-on, and highly organised individual who can easily adapt to the day-to-day challenges of this high-level role. Your recent experience in a similar role, a can-do attitude, along with attention to detail will see you soon become a highly valued member of the team.

Working within a team environment together with being adaptable to working autonomously when required, you will provide a full range of administrative/secretarial executive assistance to the Chief Business Conduct Officer and the Business Conduct Office team, exercising high degrees of confidentiality, tact and diplomacy including;

• Being responsible for diary and email management for the Chief Business Conduct Officer, with an understanding of business context to enable appropriate prioritisation.
• Coordinate and organise business and team meetings, room bookings and invites
• Produce presentations, reports and meeting agendas, taking notes when required
• Arrange and co-ordinate business travel
• Provide end to end purchasing and expense management support
• Monitor, track and action tasks, escalating and delegating where appropriate
• Lead and assist in project-based workflow where required
• Develop and maintain a good working relationship within the wider Rio Tinto to ensure the Business Conduct Office is well placed to deliver its mission
• Some travel may be required

What you’ll bring

To succeed in this role, you will have the following experience and attributes: 

• Demonstrate a high level of administration experience in a similar role with a global reach working across multiple time zones, business units and stakeholders that will require working flexibility
• Ability to always be one step ahead, being proactive when it comes to the needs of your executive
• Proficient computer skills and in-depth knowledge of relevant software such as MS Office Suite and internal systems
• Be highly organised, a ‘can do’ attitude and good problem-solving attributes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills 
• Be proactive, a great multi-tasker and take initiative with a business improvement mindset
• Demonstrate the highest standards of conduct at all times

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 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)

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.

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 ad will close on Friday 7 October 2022 – Rio Tinto reserve the right to close earlier

Rio Tinto does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruiters or employment agencies. Rio Tinto will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles. Rio Tinto reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Rio Tinto.