Principal Advisor, Integrated Productivity

Principal Advisor Integrated Productivity

• Accelerating the adoption of Integrated Productivity (integrated operations and industry 4.0) solutions across the Aluminium business, with a primary focus in the Pacific
• Contributing to establish the Aluminium business of the future
• Collaborating across multiple regions and driving change
• Permanent role based in Brisbane

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

Over many years RTA has been pushing hard on its traditional productivity levers, such as incremental cost improvement, incremental volume creep and conventional continuous improvement & innovation - but this alone won’t deliver the returns needed moving forward. 

To reach the next level of productivity improvement and establish the Aluminium business of the future, RTA needs to further leverage Integrated Operations and Industry 4.0 – collectively what is being referred to as “Integrated Productivity”.

In 2019, RTA developed its initial Integrated Productivity roadmap, with detailed roadmaps defined for each of the value streams across Aluminium – bauxite, alumina and aluminium processing. Over the past four years, significant progress has been made on implementing and evolving the roadmaps, with value delivery in line with original estimates.

A central RTA team continues to lead the overall approach, specifically:

• Continuing to drive a common approach across RTA, as well as integration with the Rio Tinto Safe Production System (RTSPS)
• Ensuring that, where practical, work is done only once across RTA (avoiding/minimising duplication across BUs)
• Being a catalyst for collaboration, replication and integration across RTA
• Accelerating critical initiatives where requested by the BUs
• Providing a coordinated and consolidated focal point for engagement with other PGs, RT functions and beyond (external)

These efforts are driven by a small team of Principal Advisors; these Principal Advisors provide leadership, guidance and specialist expertise to accelerate the implementation of the roadmaps and the pipeline of initiatives. We are currently recruiting a Principal Advisor to be based in Brisbane. Reporting to the General Manager Performance Improvement Programmes, the responsibilities of the Principal Advisor Integrated Productivity include:

• Managing relationships with senior leaders (typically GMs/Managers) across RTA, with a primary focus in RTA Pacific, to influence direction, roadmap definition and execution of the pipeline of projects
• Designing and delivering key foundations and key enablers critical to the success of the RTA Integrated Productivity programme (integrated operations + industry 4.0)
• Scoping of complex initiatives and setting up for successful delivery
• Accelerating critical Integrated Productivity initiatives (‘pull’ mode from the BUs); providing support and direction to project stakeholders as required
• Ensuring strong alignment and integration with the Rio Tinto Safe Production System (RTSPS)
• Driving global replication and integration rituals across RTA
• Collaborating across multiple regions, multiple PGs and multiple functions to facilitate cultural change

What you’ll bring

To be considered for this role, you will have:

• A bachelor and/or professional qualification in a relevant discipline.
• 8+ years operational and/or business improvement experience, ideally with a strong understanding of RTA business processes
• An understanding of leading trends in integrated operations and/or industry 4.0 and how to assess the impact for the business
• Experience in developing integrated operations, Industry 4.0 or technology roadmaps
•  A high level of coordination/project management skills
• Experience in evaluating competing business requirements and priorities
• Ability to perform under pressure and solve complex problems where precedent may not exist
• Strong stakeholder influence and collaboration competencies
• Experience working in a diverse, global team
• High level of analytical thinking and strong financial analytical skills
• Proven ability to work autonomously

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 
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical programs, pension and savings plans 
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave) 
• Exclusive employee discounts 

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 Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 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 7 April 2023. (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

Rio Tinto does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruiters or employment agencies. Rio Tinto will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles. Rio Tinto reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Rio Tinto.