GM Safe Production System Deployment Australia

GM Safe Production System Deployment Australia

• Lead a highly skilled and diverse team implementing one of the Rio Tinto key priorities
• Gain better knowledge of the business via Senior stakeholder engagement and coaching
• Perth based

Join our Chief Operating Officer (COO) team to drive systematic improvements to Rio Tinto’s safety, operational performance and productivity.

For Rio Tinto to be the best operator, and to build a strong and lasting competitive advantage relative to peer companies, we need to transform our culture towards one of excellence where all employees are engaged in daily improvements activities, with the support of leadership and within a robust system. The Rio Tinto Safe Production System (SPS) is the foundation for this transformation.

The current priorities are safety, leadership development, employee engagement, productivity improvement and revenue growth.

We aim at enhancing our employees' capabilities and engagement around the company purpose as a key differentiator and competitive advantage in order to deliver superior value over time.

About the role Reporting to the GM Safe Production System Delivery you will lead a team of Mindset & Behaviour and Safe Production System Coaches. Your role involves senior stakeholder engagement with senior leaders and Product Group Leads, together with coaching of deployment teams on site.

You will need to rely on a network of change partners and work closely with operational and functional teams.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring the SPS framework and practices are delivered through deployment stage gates
• Ensuring the SPS deployment team are set up for success
• Ensuring integration of approaches (operational excellence, mindsets and behaviours, change management, safety) and critical thinking (PDCA) are applied to planning the implementation of practices
• Refining the RTSPS deployment approach and practice development with a strong focus on impact
• Developing capability through coaching within the COO team, Product Groups and Functions to facilitate the execution of high priority projects or initiatives.
• Fostering a culture of constructive challenge and collaboration at all levels of the organization.
• Working with the HSEC, HR, Finance and Technical functions and contributing to establishing, deploying and monitoring the leadership development plan

About you

You should have:

• A relevant tertiary qualification and ideally a postgraduate degree
• Relevant Business Improvement experience (examples include Lean, Theory of Constraints, 6 Sigma, agile, TPM)
• An operational, technical or functional background with demonstrated leadership experience in driving change in an operational environment and developing capability.
• Excellent listening and facilitation skills
• An ability to coach and interact with senior leaders as well as all other leadership levels.
• Commitment to RTSPS mindset and behaviour (transparency, simplicity, supportive leadership, empowerment and continuous improvement)
• Ability to develop partnerships and manage a variety of stakeholders
• Ability to communicate new ideas, influence others and manage conflict
• Project management experience
• Well-developed analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Current C Class driver’s license

Every Voice Matters

At 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.

If working in fast-paced, dynamic new team driving a significant transformation agenda sounds like the perfect next step in your career, apply now!

Applications close by Monday 30th January 2023