Instructional Designer

Instructional Designer

• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
• We offer generous compensation, benefits and flexible work arrangements
• Brisbane based permanent employment including a huge range of additional benefits

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

Learning and development is to be an effective and accessible lever to mitigate risk and build capability to meet the needs of the business. This is underpinned by the injection of innovation, optimisation and data driven decision making.

Learning and Development are accountable for the complete learning cycle including; identification of learning needs, design and development of learning content, scheduling for learning completion, delivery of learning, recording of learning completion and measurement of learning effectiveness against defined criteria.

Provision of the creation and review of contemporary, programmatic learning content across the Pacific Operations Business Unit and learn facilitates the successful transfer of knowledge to the learner through the most suitable method (including but not limited to virtual reality, eLearning, video learning, on the job training resources, presentations, written assessments or other).

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.

As the Instructional Designer, you will scope, design, develop and review learning content in a planned and organized way that supports the business objectives. Creating learning content that facilitates the transfer of knowledge to the learner.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our centrally located Learning Excellence team providing governance, assurance and process improvement across Rio Tinto’s Pacific Operations Learning and Development function.

Based in our newly renovated Brisbane Hub Midtown Offices on Charlotte Street and reporting to the Manager Learning Excellence in a challenging and exciting environment, you will:

• Partner with identified subject matter experts to design and develop quality learning content
• Create programmatic learning content that can cross location boundaries to effectively transfer knowledge
• Develop fit for purpose learning content with the learner at the centre using the most appropriate delivery method (whether that is virtual reality, eLearning, video learning, on job training resources, presentations, written assessments or other)
• Design learning content that meets the defined quality assurance framework and adheres to internal Brand guidelines
• Complete periodic revision of learning content with consideration for new or updated legal requirements, content accuracy and currency and effectiveness of knowledge transfer
• Continually seek out new and emerging ways of effectively engaging with learners to drive innovation and efficiency improvements
• Manage competing priorities with multiple stakeholders
• Rigorously defend the minimum standards required to support learning delivery across the complete aluminum value chain of Pacific Operations
• Design learning content to be transferable where it makes business sense through programmatic content development

About you

• University degree or equivalent in Adult Learning, Instructional Design, Graphic Design, or similar (preferred)
• Proficient in the use of Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, illustrator, InDesign)
• Experience in user experience design or user centered design practices
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 suite
• High level of attention to detail
• Proven problem identification and solving ability
• Professional management of stakeholders
• Work across location boundaries to support the broader Pacific Operations business
• Successfully designed and delivered learning content that transfers knowledge
• Timely and in scope project delivery
• Partnering with multiple stakeholders to achieve business objectives
• Influencing without authority and working as part of a larger L&D community

Desirable

• Experience in large integrated organisation

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 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 Aluminium – Pacific Operations

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

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.

We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities.

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 25 August 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

Please note, to be successfully considered for this role all application questions must be answered.