Investigations Manager – Business Conduct Office (Australia Pacific - East)

Investigations Manager – Business Conduct Office (Australia Pacific - East)

• Be a part of capable and supportive global team with a flexible and caring work culture
• Be part of a global mining organisation where everyone is valued and respected
• Permanent role based in Brisbane, Queensland

About the role

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

We are looking for an Investigations Manager reporting to the Global Head of Investigations. In this role you will work with various stakeholder groups across all levels of the organisation. You will have excellent communication and people skills and the ability to network and build relationships. You will also demonstrate resilience, a focus on self-care for both you and your team and the ability to navigate sensitive discussions. You understand the importance of systems and processes to drive consistency and efficiency and you can demonstrate your ability to identify, drive and deliver improvements. You must display exemplary and unquestionable personal integrity and have the ability to take a firm but fair stand, displaying enthusiastic persistence when solving complex issues.

Are you a strategic thinker with an authentic and values-based approach? Are you passionate about helping others succeed through mentoring and coaching? If so, this is a wonderful opportunity for you to make a real difference and to contribute to a caring and people centric response to resolving misconduct concerns. 

You will be responsible for:

• Leading and developing a team of investigators (internal and external)
• Ensuring investigations in relation to alleged misconduct are conducted in accordance with the Rio Tinto trauma-informed, people centric investigation process and always conducted to the highest standards of procedural fairness
• Collaborating effectively with a variety of internal stakeholders within our business units, product groups and functions in relation to the investigative process with a focus on continuous improvement
• Working effectively with other members of the Business Conduct Office adopting a one team approach, to continually improve and deliver best practice processes
• Managing, setting expectations and reviewing performance of external service providers, negotiating and monitoring spend, standardising letters of engagement and maintaining a budget
• Ensuring that comprehensive best practice investigation reports are produced that comply with local legal requirements
• Contribute to post-investigative discussions to identify organizational and environmental factors relevant to findings and to assist the business with the Corrective and Preventative Action process and as it relates to ongoing business integrity risk mitigation and process optimization strategies
• Pro-actively contribute to the ongoing development of the investigation process, capture of organisational learnings, stakeholder engagement and feedback loop
• The delivery of measurable outcomes and improvements

 About you

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Degree level qualifications in law or accounting (8+ years) preferred
• Background in trauma informed, people centric workplace and forensic investigations
• Deep experience in forensic analysis of evidence
• Demonstrated working knowledge of legal requirements as they relate to investigations, Whistleblower protection laws, data privacy obligations and other relevant requirements
• Significant proven experience in managing teams, including developing investigators to best practice standards
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Knowledge of internal control frameworks
• Excellent organisational skills including time management and record keeping

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 is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working 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)

Where you will be working

You will be part of a global team forming the Rio Tinto Business Conduct Office. The mission of the Business Conduct Office is to provide an effective business integrity compliance program across the Rio Tinto Group to ensure all employees and third parties working on behalf of Rio Tinto, conduct business in an ethical and compliant manner within all countries where we operate.

Complying with Rio Tinto’s code of conduct (The Way We Work), policies and standards as they relate to business integrity and workplace conduct are key priorities of the team. The team also has responsibility for Rio Tinto’s Whistleblower program known as myVoice and the continued development of the investigations process including training.

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 LGBTQI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from diverse 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 valued individuals.

Applications close on Friday 28 October 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.