Principal Advisor, Health and Safety

Principal Advisor, Health and Safety - Exploration

• Strategic health and safety role within Rio Tinto Exploration
• Direct impact on the effectiveness of exploration projects
• Grow your experience in this interesting and varied international portfolio - Australasia region
• Belmont, Western Australia or Bowen Hills, Queensland based with regular ad hoc travel

About the role

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

We are looking for a Principal Advisor, Health and Safety to join our Exploration business, supporting the Australasia region portfolio. You will oversee health and safety initiatives and programmes spanning exploration projects across Australia, and emerging targets throughout Asia, ensuring they are implemented efficiently and effectively, and meet local regulatory requirements.

This is a great opportunity to grow your health and safety capability in a strategic and senior role, leveraging the experience you have gained in operational or field-based health and safety generalist roles. You'll be supporting an international portfolio spanning a variety of product groups and global stakeholders.

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 Health, Safety and Environment Business Partner - Rio Tinto Exploration, and working in a supportive environment with a great office culture, you will be:

• Ensuring HSE policy and procedure compliance with occupational health and safety legislation in multiple jurisdictions
• Supporting the development and execution of strategic HSE improvement initiatives and assurance frameworks
• Providing technical support to your health, safety and environment colleagues, and operational teams
• Supporting operational leaders to build their health and safety maturity
• Integrating contactor partners in our safety maturity journey through inclusion and empowerment

What you’ll bring

• Extensive experience managing health and safety in the field
• A health and safety qualification
• Understanding of health and safety management systems and applications
• Incident management and investigation expertise
• Great interpersonal skills
• High level of written and verbal communication
• Attributes that openly display HSE as a personal value

Emergency management experience is desirable, but not essential.

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 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 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

Rio Tinto's Exploration group seeks to create value for the business by discovering or acquiring new mineral resources. Organized into three regional teams (Americas, Australasia and Africa-Europe), the Exploration group provides both a global reach and a local presence across a range of commodities including bauxite, copper, nickel and iron ore.

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 the 5th of December 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)