Principal Advisor Functional Safety

Principal Adviser II – Functional Safety

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion

• Join a leading global company

• Based in Montreal, Brisbane or Perth

About the role

Finding better ways™ to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Principal Adviser II who serves as a functional safety subject matter expert to identify and resolve complex problems and is a best practice/quality resource, focusing on the site implementation of the Functional Safety Standard. Identifies applications of functional safety knowledge and existing methodologies to complex problems across mining, processing, rail and transportation.

This is a great opportunity for someone to lead worldwide site level technical network to support the implementation of Functional Safety and the operationalization of the Functional Safety critical controls.

Reporting to the Manager Functional Safety and working in a collaborative community, a challenging and exciting environment, within the Development & Technology team, you will:

• Develop Product Group / Business Unit / Project Portfolio Major Hazards risk management programs of work, helping to understand current status and barriers to the fit for purpose implementation of Functional safety standard (D7)

• Ensure a Major Hazards Dashboard (Leading Metric’s) improvement plan is defined for each product group and aid in the development of the quality data set for D7

• Support business units in responding to significant functional safety issues/events or problems and helps to develop countermeasures and corrective action plans

• Provide technical leadership and direction relating to management and on-going development of Functional Safety Risk Management and Assurance Systems within the sustain capital projects

• Coordinate the international technical committee of site and business unit functional safety practitioners

• Initiates and leads functional teams and/or strategic initiatives that have significant impact on Managing Major Hazards risk within the business

• Establish appropriate control and change management systems across the business, focusing on Bridge and Force and Authority to operate (i.e. degraded state)

• Support wider team to deliver Product Group / Business unit risk management and assurance programs of work

• Leads the development of Functional Safety risk and assurance material for a broad range of area’s including Processing, Automation, Rail, Remote Isolation, Underground equipment, Tailings and material handling equipment

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• A deep understanding of Major Hazard incident and the role functional Safety can have in managing these hazards

• Ability to influence and explain functional safety throughout the organization

• Both operational and project expertise of managing functional Safety lifecycle

• If you are applying for the role based in Montreal, Quebec, fluency in French and English, both written and spoken. Rio Tinto is a global company and the duties of this position may require collaboration with colleagues, teams or partners based outside Quebec

What we offer

• Be recognized 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 competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees  

• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions 

• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan 

• Wellbeing benefits 

• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program 

• Employee Assistance Program 

• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter 

• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave) 

About Rio TintoRio 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 situations and meet opportunities.

Every Voice MattersAt 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.