Executive Assistant

Executive Assistant

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

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

Weare currently looking for an Executive/Admin Assistant to join our Perth Team to support the Chief Advisor, IT Projects, her leadership team and the Perth IS&T team. Working with some of the industry’s brightest minds who are passionate about working with leaders in the best practice delivery of the future IS & T business.

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 high level of administrative and secretarial support directly to the executives and the team with the management of their day-to-day activities as required
• Be responsible for diary and email management together with call screening and visitor assistance
• Coordinate and organise business and team meetings and events, room bookings and Outlook invites
• Produce presentations, reports and meeting agendas, taking notes when required
• Arrange and co-ordinate business travel, including international travel
• Monitor, track and action tasks, escalating and delegating where appropriate
• Lead and assist in project-based workflow where required and be the go-to person for the extended team.
• Develop and maintaining a good working relationship with the other EA’s and providing leave backfill as required
• Manage end to end service requests for stakeholders (e.g., RTTMS tickets, etc.) 
• Participate as a leader within the team, being able to express the values of care, courage and curiosity

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
• A passion for the environment with a core belief in the future development of sustainable energy and battery development would be highly regarded
• Ability to always be one step ahead, being proactive when it comes to the needs of your team
• Be a great team member, supporting and challenging each other regardless of level or role
• 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

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
• Salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
• 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 witha 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

IS&T’s Global Project Management Services provides best in class project delivery across all of the Rio Tinto groups. Whilst global there is a strong element of belonging in the Perth office to create a sense of team, as well as being part of the broader global IS&T business.

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.

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