Rehabilitation Specialist

Rehabilitation Specialist

• Mine rehabilitation and closure is a challenging and rewarding field of work
• Be part of a team that solves complex challenges and shapes the future
• Make your mark in the implementation of large scale rehabilitation projects across the Pilbara with a supportive leadership team
• Perth CBD Location – Monday to Friday

About our role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Rehabilitation Specialist to join our Rehabilitation & Closure team

This role is a great opportunity for an experienced rehabilitation practitioner to contribute to our rehabilitation and revegetation projects and continual improvement. Working Monday to Friday with irregular travel to our operations in the Pilbara, you will:

• Apply your technical skills in developing and providing guidance for rehabilitation and revegetation programs, prepare and review internal and external reports
• Plan, procure and implement mine site rehabilitation projects in an expanding portfolio
• Ensure rehabilitation projects are implemented to meet stakeholder and company requirements and targets
• Actively seek and realise opportunities to increase progressive rehabilitation across our operations in the Pilbara, and incorporate into annual planning processes
• Apply your project management skills to deliver safe, quality hectares on budget and schedule. Identify opportunities to optimise outcomes, reduce risks and liability
• Coordinate seed procurement, species mixes and revegetation improvement projects
• Develop working relationships with internal and external stakeholders

What you’ll bring

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Degree in Science, Engineering or other relevant field
• Experience in Project Management and/or Contractor Management
• Experience in mining, rehabilitation, revegetation, civil or earthworks

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Experience in using Microsoft Office suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
• Basic skills in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Where you will be working

This role is based in Perth, Western Australia, out of our Central Park office, working Monday – Friday, with ad hoc travel to sites in the Pilbara. We support and encourage flexible working arrangements.

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.

This role is for applicants residing in or willing to permanently relocate to Western Australia.

Applications close on 27^th March 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

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 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.