Performance and Value Lead (Southern Hemisphere)

Performance & Value Lead – Southern Hemisphere

• Career-defining opportunity to deploy the Safe Production System across our Iron Ore, Aluminium and Mineral & Energy Product Groups
• Contribute directly to Rio Tinto becoming the best operator in the industry
• Permanent Full Time F band 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 and deploy the Performance & Value components of the Rio Tinto Safe Product Systems (SPS) program. You will partner with senior leaders across product groups globally defining business objectives, the pathways to achieve them and the processes to monitor our progress 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 for each deployment you support:

• Review data availability and quality across the seven RTSPS metrics covering the triple bottom line (people, planet & performance)
• Coach Finance Business Partners and/or Business Improvement professionals to diagnose major sources of loss for critical assets
• Coach deployment and stream leads to set leading and lagging metrics at the executive level and cascade these to the frontline 
• Partner with Product Group operational leaders to set the timing and quantum of deployment targets that set an appropriate level of aspiration 
• Support deployment teams accurately capture the impact of their deployment activities and attribute cashflow value in the Momentum system
• Provide input into the business planning process on current achieved and future forecast improvement impact
• Monitor and report on deployment leading and lagging KPI’s
• Support development of pathways post deployment to ‘Best Operator’ using the Building Full Potential methodology

In addition to supporting site deployments, 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
• Support deployment of the SPS within functional teams including southern hemisphere 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
• Experience working in an operational environment with operational leadership
• Strong business improvement skills (Lean Six Sigma), while not essential would be highly regarded
• 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.

Travel to various operations in the Southern Hemisphere will be required to be successful in this role 

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 Tuesday, 11th October 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.