Learning and Development Superintendent

Learning & Development Superintendent

• Fantastic opportunity to join a highly skilled and diverse team implementing one of the Rio Tinto’s key priorities
• Great opportunity to showcase your curiosity, creativity, care and L&D expertise
• 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.

We are looking for an experienced Learning and Development Superintendent, who has a drive to push the boundaries on what is believed to be possible as well as a belief that Learning and Development is a lever for business success.

Reporting to the Manager Transformation in our Brisbane Hub office, you will need to rely on a network of change partners and work closely with operational and functional teams. Key responsibilities will include:

• Partner to understand, influence, identify and deliver value adding L&D programs for all roles and at all levels of the operation
• Assess any and all learning need gaps and translate business strategy into workforce development needs
• Scope succinct and compelling business cases for workforce learning and development initiatives
• Plan and execute cyclical learning to meet the needs of the business
• Identify like-minded external parties to partner with in addition to the L&D team to deliver specialised required learning outcomes
• Provide insight and vision to the site senior leaders on the impact and/or potential impact of learning on business outcomes

About you

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

• Tertiary qualifications in Learning and Development and/or Human Resources
• Experience strategizing and implementing business wide initiatives
• Demonstrated success in influencing and partnering with stakeholders to embed workforce development and drive transformational change
• Have the ability to inspire collaboration, engagement and best practice replication and standardisation
• Capability to successfully lead a team to delivery effective and efficient, measurable outcomes 
• Ability to influence without authority
• A bias to decision making based on data, while thinking outside the box
• The courage and conviction to challenge, to be bold and be an L&D leader
• 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

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;
• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements;
• 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); and
• Relocation packages where suitable.

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 you must complete all pre-screening questions.