Principal Advisor Safety

Principal Advisor Safety

• Newly created role within the Rio Tinto Iron Ore Health & Safety team
• Improvement focused opportunity advancing safety maturity and technical safety capability to effectively identify and manage HS risks to achieve the RT goal of fatality elimination and injury reduction
• Perth based opportunity working from Central Park with ad-hoc site travel

About the role

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

The primary purpose of the Iron Ore Health, Safety and Emergency Services division’s is to ensure the safety, health and wellbeing of our people ensuring everyone who works at Rio Tinto goes home safe and healthy every shift. Reporting to the Senior Health & Safety Business Partner, this Senior role will provide expert advice in the safety field through interpreting internal or external business issues and recommending solutions/best practices.

Key responsibilities and activities of the role include:

• Partnership with stakeholders and peers to advance safety maturity
• Solves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify solutions
• Operationalise and contextualise global safety initiatives
• Contributes towards the development of Rio Tinto’s safety guidelines and standards.
• Monitoring and reporting Health & Safety risks
• Providing support, assistance, and education on safety specific matters
• Supporting HS strategy development and delivery
• Conducts strategic safety reviews
• Provide innovative ideas and solutions based on industry best practice

What you’ll bring

• Expert knowledge of industry leading safety practices
• Experience in project delivery and change management
• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Demonstrated leadership and mentorship, with a passion to coach and improve others
• Experience managing and influencing stakeholders across multi-functional teams
• Ability to integrate safety in business process
• Experience in safety culture improvement such as safety diagnostic programs

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

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins witha 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 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 17^th November 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)