Health, Safety and Environment Manager, Rio Tinto Energy Development

Health, Safety and Environment Manager, Rio Tinto Energy Development

• Key business partner to Rio Tinto Energy Development
• Deliver health, safety and environment programs associated with Pilbara Renewable asset projects
• Help shape the Rio Tinto Energy Development HSE strategy
• Perth based with travel to various Pilbara, Western Australia sites

About the role

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

Rio Tinto has recently launched a dedicated team to deliver large renewable energy solutions across our major jurisdictions. Rio Tinto Energy Development (RTED) is focusing on accelerating the development of future energy assets and securing high quality renewable energy development optionality. The team's focus on the provision of green energy will enable the decarbonisation of the company’s existing industrial operations and support Rio Tinto’s future growth.

As an immediate focus, RTED is working with Rio Tinto Iron Ore to design and deliver the renewable energy required to decarbonize our Pilbara operations.

Reporting to the Senior HSE Business Partner Projects within Development and Technology HSE department, we are looking for a Health, Safety and Environment Manager to lead a team of HSE professionals and act as a key business partner to RTED to design, develop and implement HSE programs to support in managing HSE risks associated with Pilbara Renewable asset projects, as well as ensuring compliance with local regulatory requirements.

This a great opportunity to play a key leadership role that directly supports and enables our transition to net zero emissions and joining at this early stage offers you the opportunity to provide input as part of the leadership team to help shape the RTED HSE strategy.

Delivering RTED Pilbara Renewable assets projects will require a collaborative and integrated approach to HSE and you’ll work closely with peers across our Development and Technology and Rio Tinto Iron Ore Product Groups. Externally, you'll engage with a wide group of stakeholders including state regulatory agencies, and community, civil and non-government organisations. You’ll also engage heavily with RTED contracting partners, including being involved in the evaluation of major contractor packages, ensuring work is delivered in a way that puts HSE first and fostering an authentic, respectful, and collaborative workplace culture founded on trust to consistently deliver project outcomes.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

What you’ll bring

• Experience working with diverse teams
• Extensive experience managing HSE in the development of large-scale projects, with significant contractor management experience
• The ability to influence and work collaboratively in a complex environment
• Incident management and investigation experience
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong leadership skills
• High level of written and verbal communication
• Attributes that openly display HSE as a personal value

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 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

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.

Applications close on the 21^st of September 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)