Health, Safety and Environment Business Partner

HSE Business Partner

• Challenging and dynamic position in a global mining company
• Utilise your exceptional operational and health, safety and environment leadership experience to guide the business
• Permanent role supporting the culturally unique location of Gove, Northern Territory

About the role

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

We are looking for a Health, Safety and Environment Business Partner to provide expert health safety and environment support to diverse stakeholder groups within RTA Pacific Operations business function.

This is a critical role to the business and as such, we require a highly experienced, credible and capable leader. Resilience, self-motivation and exceptional communication skills are essential for this role, as you will be required to interface with broad stakeholder groups, displaying credibility, building trust and influencing outcomes in a dynamic environment. As part of the Rio Tinto Aluminium, Gove, Senior leadership team, you will be an expert problem solver, strategic advisor and most importantly committed to driving positive outcomes for the business. 

Reporting to the General Manager HSE, you will be required to:

• Collaborate with, influence, support and coach operational leadership teams to achieve HSE excellence
• Lead and develop a team of experienced Health, Safety and Environmental professionals to be trusted partners
• Work across the health, safety and environment function to support the simplification of processes, and to leverage technical support from our central improvement and technical expertise teams.
• Work collaboratively and interface with contractor partners to support safe delivery of projects in line with the strategic objectives of RTA Gove.
• Lead and support business wide health, safety and environment improvement initiatives
• Support and conduct health, safety and environment assurance and governance processes/activities

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Tertiary qualified in environmental, health, safety, engineering or relevant and commensurate experience in a similar role
• Extensive operational experience in the resource industry in a leadership role
• Health, or Safety, or Environmental professional, or passionate operational leader with history of strong health, safety and environment performance
• Strong leadership experience with demonstrated effectiveness to lead, coach and develop a team of HSE professionals
• Exceptional interpersonal, communication and stakeholder management skills, with proven ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders and leaders across multiple functions

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Previous experience working in a multi-stakeholder environment within the resource industry
• Demonstrated ability to manage change

What we offer

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

• A work environment where safety, health and environment is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• 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)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

Where you will 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 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.

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 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. 

Applications close 27 January 2022. (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

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.