Principal Advisor Process Safety

Principal Advisor - Process Safety

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Key role in a diverse and global organisation at the forefront of mining and processing
• Permanent Full Time role based in Brisbane or Perth (flexible work arrangement in place)

About the role

We are looking for a Principal Advisor Process Safety to provide expertise in supporting the assets to deliver objectives safely and reliably through operationalisation, implementation and embedding of process safety systems, process and initiatives. Playing a key role in the Processing Major Hazards team within the Processing Center of Excellence, you will build and maintain process safety standards across a networked technical organisation.

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 Chief Advisor Process Safety, you will:

• Provide process safety expertise across the group to avoid events and keep our people safe.
• Support the assets to materially improve their Process Safety Performance, Process Control & Production delivery reliability
• Deliver tools, training, development opportunities, metrics and standards governance that help assure performance
• Provide technical expertise to support improvements and resolution of technical issues
• Facilitate or participate in working groups at group-level to develop and implement process safety practices
• Advise the Group, Product Groups and Assets on next generation technology priorities
• Focus on high risk and high value threats and opportunities at the Group level, work with Product Groups and assets to ensure that these Group level risks and addressed in their Process Safety and Productivity.
• Network with external experts and suppliers to support improvements 

What you will need for this role

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Tertiary qualifications in the fields of chemical, mechanical or electrical
• 10 to 15 years of relevant experience in Process Safety
• Strong operational experience in process safety on a major hazard site in a high hazard industry such as oil and gas, chemicals, refining, petrochemicals, pharmaceutics, mining and metals using a recognised process safety management framework or regulation (OSHA PSM, CCPS, Energy Institute, other)
• Prior engineering experience with robust knowledge of good engineering practices, international codes and standards related to the safe design of facilities (API, NFPA, others)
• Experience implementing process safety initiatives in projects
• Leadership skills including ability to facilitate meetings and working groups
• Ability to discuss and influence at all levels in a matrix and decentralised organisation
• Problem solving Listening skills and ability to develop trusted relationship with our partners
• Experience in process hazard analysis such as HAZID, HAZOP, Bow-Ties, ALARP
• Able to influence strategy; translate strategy into practical and innovative solutions; and deliver improved productivity.
• Team player, ability to work and collaborate in a multicultural and global environment
• A strong safety mindset

What we offer 

Be recognised for your contribution, thinking, and 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)
• Relocation assistance where necessary

Where you will be working

Rio Tinto’s Development and Technology (D&T) group engages and partner with Rio Tinto businesses across 73 operating sites, 35 countries and 6 continents to help create value, manage risk and innovate for the future, whilst providing range of support and services functions, to ensure technical optimisation, establish and transfer best practices, develop strategies to drive performance improvements, and ensure that technical innovation provides a source of long-term competitive advantage.

You will be part of the Center of Excellence in Processing, a hub created to support all the assets in achieving and sustaining process safety excellence. You will be expose to several mining and processing assets across the group.

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.

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.

Apply today if you want to work with the latest technology and innovation, in an environment where we challenge you to drive positive change.

Applications close on Thursday, 8^th December (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).