GM RTSPS

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• Career-defining opportunity to contribute directly to Rio Tinto becoming the Best Operator

• Permanent Full-Time role based in Brisbane, Australia

• Comprehensive portfolio including Deployment across 7 Operations including Non-managed JVs, building the sustaining model for SPS and OE and delivering the sustaining structure and systems for RTA PacOps in collaboration with a Global Team

• Transformational leader assisting with the development and Journey to become the Best Operator

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, Rio Tinto Aluminium Pacific Operations, we are seeking a General Manager accountable for the integration and deployment of the SPS and Operational Excellence improvement portfolio across all RTA PacOps Operations and Functions including the development of the sustaining model and operating systems as we move to sustain and embed phases.

Some of the key accountabilities of the role will include:

• Leading site and functional deployment teams across RTA Pacific operations throughout different phases and integrating the Operational Excellence and business improvement teams as part of the deployment with demonstrated sustainable value / productivity improvement created for the regions

• Ensuring appropriate capability and technical skillsets are articulated, embedded into the TNA and PDCAs in place for relevant accountable functions

• Developing and managing an engagement plan which ensures a pathway and change management is in place to ensure the operations are sustainably managed throughout deployment and in the sustain and embed phases

• Development of the sustaining operational excellence strategy intertwined with the operating system encompassing the functions as part of the sustaining model ensuring the pathway to Best Operator.

• Accountable to ensure SPS design and deployment efforts are adequately resourced and that activities expected from teams involved in SPS have been adjusted to allow a sustainable deployment and handover to site Operational Excellence teams.

• Accountable to ensure committed targets are understood and integrated in regular rituals

• Demonstrate supportive leadership to collaboratively address emerging issues and irritants escalated from the sites and functions; sponsor improvement projects and visibly engage with teams

• Actively engage with the Global SPS Central and Functional teams to ensure alignment, collaboration and leverage support as required

• Actively collaborate with RTA Atlantic SPS and Transformation Teams to ensure the SPS and Operating System methodology is effective when rolled up at an RTA level

• Leverage and apply SPS concepts in delivering other PG/BU priorities, including building capabilities and commitment to HSEC, and other functional teams

• Supports the identification of the full potential of the business through benchmarking and pathways to reach it, including building in the diagnostics and planning tools into the annual cycle and consolidate where opportunities exist

• Engaging, Coaching, supporting and advising the SLT and GM Operations and GM Functions as deployment progresses at their Operation / Function

• Advises senior management on the implementation and effectiveness of business improvement initiatives, Sponsors communities of practice to support the evolution of consistent leading practices

• Manages and develops the performance of the team in line with Rio Tinto’s company values, in order to achieve objectives.

What you’ll bring to be successful in the role

• A commitment to living the Rio Tinto values of Care, Courage and Curiosity

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your colleagues

• Experience operating in more than one cultural context (in addition toExperience and high impact performance in two or more commodities or functions (including support functions, technical functions operations, areas of expertise).

• Strong people leadership skills, having led operational and functional teams.

• Skills and experience project delivery and operations; proven track record of safe and efficient delivery and continuous improvement  

• Strong stakeholder engagement capability

• Experience implementing programmes to increase business growth and/or profitability (e.g. reducing costs, commercial).

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, you’re thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress. 

• A work environment where safety and social licence 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 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

• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)

• Relocation assistance where necessary

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

Rio Tinto is a global leader in aluminium, one of the world’s most widely used metals.

Active in the sector for more than 110 years, today we operate large-scale, high-quality bauxite mines and alumina refineries, and have the world’s most modern and competitive aluminium smelter portfolio.

Our Aluminium Pacific Operations sites are located along the east coast of Australia, at the tip of the Northern Territory and in New Zealand’s south. With more than 6,000 employees, we operate a full value chain approach—mining, refining and smelting. Our portfolio includes four bauxite mines, two refineries, four smelters and one power station, and is supported by technical experts located in our Brisbane hub, including a fully operational Operations Centre for our bauxite mines.

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.

Applications close on Monday, 25th November 2024.  (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

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

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Every Voice MattersAt Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ 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.