Principal Climate Change Resilience

Principal Climate Change Resilience

• Be a part of our Energy and Climate Change solution and contribute to the net-zero transformation within Rio Tinto
• Permanent role based in Brisbane , Perth or our global hubs

About the role

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

We are looking for a Principal Climate Change Resilience to collaborate across the business to understand and improve the resilience of Rio Tinto to physical climate change across our assets, communities, supply chains and customers.

This is a great opportunity for a climate change professional to work with our group risk team and product groups and to use their knowledge of climate science and risk management to understand the impacts of physical climate change and support implementation of adaptation measures.

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 GM Decarbonisation Office Working in a collaborative and exciting environment within our global Energy and Climate Change Center of Excellence team.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• A proven track record in physical climate change risk assessment and management
• Proven ability on how risk management solutions can be replicated and effectively rolled out across a global organisation
• Highly developed critical thinking skills with the ability to see patterns and gaps across the business to then be able to replicate solutions
• Experience in analysing and quantifying improvement opportunities, understanding the full potential of a solution and then making a recommendation
• Effective stakeholder engagement and management skills and the ability to build external networks and relationships with industry experts

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 global relocation assistance

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 will be working

Rio Tinto’s Energy and Climate Change Centre of Excellence has been established to drive and support the business to deliver our 2030 climate commitments and realise our ambition of net zero emissions by 2050. Working dynamically and collaboratively across the business, the Centre of Excellence focuses on five key areas to implement our energy and climate change strategy: Abatement project delivery; Net-zero pathway planning and technology; Emissions reduction in business improvement; Physical climate risk and resilience; and Capability uplift. 

Engagement is key to addressing climate change effectively, and the team works closely with stakeholders both within Rio Tinto and outside of the organisation.

This role is open to being based at any of our global hubs- Perth , Brisbane , Salt Lake City , or Canada 

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.

Application close 5th August 2024