Senior Advisor Health and Safety

SENIOR ADVISOR HEALTH & SAFETY – WINU

• Make your mark on a ground-breaking copper-gold project for Rio Tinto
• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• Site based role - fly-in fly-out from Perth, 15:13 day roster

About the role

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

We are looking for a Senior Advisor Health & Safety to join our ground-breaking copper-gold project at Winu.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Health & Safety professional to be involved in an exciting greenfield project. You will be responsible for establishing our HSE management system and the development of supporting documentation and processes. As the project progresses, you will gain exposure to early phases construction through to mining production.

Reporting to the Superintendent Health and Safety and working in a small professional team, you will be:

• Providing advice and support on the implementation of legislated health and safety requirements.
• Supporting and coaching leaders and Contractor Partners to build their safety leadership and performance 
• Embedding critical risk management(CRM) practices across site.
• Driving injury prevention and wellbeing programs.
• Championing H&S fundamentals through engagement, coaching and training program delivery (e.g. pre-starts, LiF, Take 5, JHA, etc);
• Supporting governance processes and programs.
• Training and coaching operational teams in incident management

What you will bring

• Experience working in an operational or projects health and safety role, coupled with a passion for, and sound knowledge of health and safety practices
• Strong engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to effectively coach leaders and contractor teams
• An ability to work in a fast-paced environment managing competing priorities& supporting multiple stakeholder groups with strong problem-solving skills
• Strong communication skills including proficiency with document development
• Adaptability, flexibility and resourcefulness
• Solutions based mind-set
• Contractor management with a focus on partnerships

What we offer

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP)
• Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
• Excellent retirement plan
• A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays)
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

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

Winu is a 100% Rio Tinto owned copper-gold mineralisation project in the Yeneena Basin of the Paterson Province in Western Australia. The project is located approximately 130 km north of the Telfer mine and 350 km southeast of Port Hedland. Teams at Winu are taking an agile approach to greenfield project development and being innovative in the way we bring a mine from exploration to production.

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.