Performance and Value Lead - Design

Performance & Value Lead – Design

• Career-defining global opportunity to design the Safe Production System across our Iron Ore, Aluminium, Copper and Mineral & Energy Product Groups
• Contribute directly to Rio Tinto becoming the best operator in the industry 
• Permanent Full Time role based in Perth or Brisbane

About the role

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

We are seeking a Performance & Value Lead to design the Performance & Value components of the Rio Tinto Safe Product Systems (SPS) program. You will partner with senior leaders across Rio Tinto’s functional teams to design the process, tools, and systems in support of Rio Tinto’s objective of becoming the industry’s best operator.

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 General Manager Performance & Value, and working within a dynamic and exciting project environment, you will:

• Undertake business unit level desktop diagnostics to value optimise the deployment sequence of RTSPS across our operations
• Lead or contribute to the development of Performance & Value SPS best practice designs for the planning & performance cycle, diagnostics, and Momentum
• Support the development of other SPS best practices by recommending appropriate leading & lagging KPI’s
• Develop and deliver training to Finance Business Partners to build SPS support capability development
• Coach Finance Business Partners and/or Business Improvement professionals to diagnose major sources of loss for critical assets
• Support development of pathways post deployment to ‘Best Operator’ using the Building Full Potential methodology
• Support deployment of the SPS within functional teams including Finance teams

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your colleagues
• Extensive background in Finance Business Partnering or Business Analysis
• Extensive experience in large scale mining organisations
• Well-developed analytical ability to diagnose problems
• Excellent stakeholder management and engagement capability
• A flexible and adaptable approach to enable the iterative delivery of program requirements
• Ability to work autonomously in a rapidly developing environment
• Strong understanding of change management fundamentals
• Excellent communication, coaching and influencing capability
• A commitment to living the Rio Tinto values of Care, Courage and Curiosity

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
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Relocation assistance where necessary

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. 

Where you’ll be working

We want to become the best operator in the industry and the Rio Tinto Safe Production System (RTSPS) will help us to get there. We are currently building the system and there are lighthouse sites across the product groups. It’s a system that puts people at the centre, simplifies what we do, frees our people up to innovate, and brings consistency to our operations. 

The RTSPS will be the blueprint for how we operate our assets, manage performance and support our people. It’s one of our most significant transformation programmes yet with a laser focus on ensuring we have the right mindsets and behaviours to be successful.

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 Friday, 30^th September 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.