Mining Executive

Mining Executive

• Be a part of an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development

• Excellent development opportunity to shape your future career

• Build your Group-wide knowledge and networks

• Perth based role with agile flexibility options

We encourage women and Indigenous Peoples to apply, as we advance our business to more accurately reflect the world around us.

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Mining Executive to provide tactical and strategic support and guidance for the Operational and Technical Support product group.

This is a great career development for your next career move, providing exposure to Rio Tinto strategy, management, governance and decision-making processes.

About you

You are intellectually curious with excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills. You enjoy working with leaders, peers and teams to solve problems and seek opportunities to be part of taking Rio Tinto forward.

You are seeking a role that will help accelerate your development, with a focus on the operations, by providing exceptional support to the Senior Leadership Team.

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.

Reporting to the Managing Director Operational and Technical Support, and working in a challenging and exciting environment within Iron Ore, you will:

• Provide support to the Managing Director and lead projects as requested

• Interact with key stakeholders to understand all the major aspects of strategic issues in order to conduct fact-based analyses and provide insights to the Managing Director

• Assist in the preparation of papers for senior leadership team meetings

• Assist in determining and articulating the strategic objectives of the business by conducting thorough analysis of competitive strengths and weaknesses in an industry context and by engaging with key internal and external thought-leaders

• Develop appropriate presentation and communication materials on behalf of the Managing Director

• Prepare and coordinate briefing notes, regular reports as required

• Shape and coordinate meeting agendas to ensure a strategic focus and that business critical issues are addressed and effective processes are followed

• Act as the Secretary for various committees from meeting preparation to the minutes and follow up on action items from meetings

• Facilitate the communication flow of information amongst the senior leadership team members

• Assist in shaping and raising the external profile of the Managing Director by coordinating stakeholder strategy

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Strategic thinking: deep strategic thinking and numerical/analytical skills. Able to maintain perspective and switch between strategic and tactical priorities quickly

• Judgement: able to identify and frame complex issues and opportunities quickly, and bring to resolution with a solid ethical framework

• Stakeholder engagement: ability to develop productive, collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills: ability to frame and convey complex messages to a range of stakeholders using a wide range of communication methods

• Exceptional organisation skills: able to work at pace, while tracking multiple competing priorities, and turning work around at speed

Future leaders with a strategic mindset, operational focus, curiosity and drive to contribute are strongly encouraged to apply.

What we offer

• Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you have 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 bonus.  

• 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, cultural leave).

• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them.

• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more. 

Where you’ll be workingBased in the Perth CBD, Central Park, this role encourages agile ways of working, on a Monday – Friday roster. Regular travel to the Pilbara is required.

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets: a world-class, integrated network of 17 mines, four independent port terminals, a 1,700 kilometre rail network and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand. 

We are one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of iron ore.

Applications close on 20 December 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)