Senior Advisor Rehabilitation Performance

Senior Advisor Rehabilitation Performance

• Mine rehabilitation and closure is a challenging and rewarding field of work
• Make your mark in improving the performance of rehabilitated land
• Be part of an organisation that embodies values of Care, Courage and Curiosity and places people at the heart
• Flexible work arrangements considered
• Perth CBD Location – Monday to Friday with ad-hoc travel to our Pilbara Operations

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Advisor Rehabilitation Performance to join our Rehabilitation & Closure team. This recently created role is a great opportunity for an experienced and technically proficient land rehabilitation specialist to review, interpret and analyse our rehabilitation. Your skill set will progress targeted improvement work streams to ensure rehabilitation is able to progress to acceptable completion criteria.

Working Monday to Friday with irregular travel to our operations in the Pilbara, you will:

• Be familiar with rehabilitation and closure policy, regulation, internal and external stakeholder requirements
• Provide advice on the design and implementation of rehabilitation monitoring programs including remote technology incorporation
• Interpret and trend ecosystem/ecological and rehabilitation monitoring data;
• Partner with internal customers, subject matter experts and external stakeholders to address business risks and knowledge gaps through coordination of a rehabilitation improvement framework
• Communicate results, trends and improvement recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences;
• Coordinate and manage the development and implementation of revegetation and rehabilitation improvement plans, trials, projects and partnerships including procurement and contractor management
• Provide seed management support
• Identify opportunities to work in partnership with peers and research organisations to facilitate targeted research outcomes that are practical and scalable.
• Work with relevant internal and external stakeholders relating to development, review and approval of completion criteria relating to rehabilitation performance
• Apply leading research knowledge and technology.

About you

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

• A degree in an Ecological or Environmental discipline, with at least 7 years’ professional experience
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in implementation of mine rehabilitation and revegetation programs
• Understanding of relevant industry guidelines
• Knowledge of rehabilitation monitoring processes, with the ability to analyse, trend, interrogate, and interpret ecological data;
• Familiarity with Pilbara vegetation communities and seed
• Excellent communication, influencing, interpersonal and problem-solving skills.

 It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Skills in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your 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

Where you’ll be working

The Rehab and Closure team actively encourages and supports flexible work. This includes workdays, hours and location, in addition to flexible and part-time work schedules. Occasional site travel will be required.

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.

This role is for applicants residing in or willing to permanently relocate to Western Australia. Rio Tinto offers Fly in and fly out options from Perth, our regional FIFO hubs and the opportunity to live in our residential towns where applicable.

Applications close on Monday, 14th November 2022. (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)