Principal Advisor Business Improvement

Principal Advisor Business Improvement

• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
• Build and lead a skilled and stable team of Business Improvement professionals
• Monday to Friday with flexible working arrangements – Central Park

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

Our people are at our heart. We have introduced a function called Operational Excellence (OE). Enabling operational excellence is imperative to becoming the best operator and our OE teams will be critical to realising our strategic objectives and priorities. Our OE team will be the heart of the Rio Tinto Safe Production System (RTSPS) at our operations by building, maturing and sustaining the system over time.

We are looking for a Principal Business Improvement to Lead the Business Improvement team, providing improvement expertise to deliver business priorities, including the execution of best practices to enable RTSPS sustainability.

This is a great opportunity for those who put people at the centre, have a change mindset and have a genuine interest in our fundamental principle of being the best operator. You will have the opportunity to build and Lead the Business Improvement team and provide improvement expertise to the operations to achieve business priorities.

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 Manager RTIO RTSPS Program and working in a collaborative community, within OE Business Improvement, you will be:

• Actively lead a skilled team of Business Improvement subject matter experts to ensure activities meet all health, safety, and environmental requirements, and assist in risk mitigation 
• Provide coaching and guidance to your team and operational leaders on business improvement principles 
• Support the delivery of annual and strategic planning for the division
• Manage the deployment and embedment of the Rio Tinto Safe Production Systems 
• Identify and lead improvement projects using project management and improvement methodologies such as facilitating workshops with leaders 
• Support the development of capability, mindsets and behaviours that support a growth mindset
• Actively engage with operations to identify opportunities to increase operational effectiveness and establish a pipeline of future improvement whilst connecting geographically spread asset-based Business Improvement teams together
• Work with your customers across the division to ensure the optimisation of improvements and efficiencies 

What you’ll bring

Your strengths in communicating and building relationships with diverse stakeholders coupled with your problem-solving skills will help you succeed in this role. Your capability partner with and bring together cross functional teams will be critical also. 

To be successfully considered for this role, you’ll bring: 

• Leadership experience in continuous improvement 
• Demonstrated experience in improvement delivery and sustainability of projects 
• Lean qualifications and business improvement experience
• Ability to communicate new ideas and influence others
• Solid performance coaching capability
• Strong teamwork, communication and interpersonal
• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Commitment to Rio Tinto value drivers of Care, Courage and Curiosity 

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
• 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
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

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 almost 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, people of diverse genders and identities, 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 April 3^rd 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)