Senior Advisor, SPS support

Senior Advisor, Safe Production System (SPS) support

• Join an encouraging leadership group committed to your growth and development
• Our friendly teams look after each other because your safety and wellbeing are always our priority.
• Perth based role with ad-hoc site travel required.

Where we’re all welcome 

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. 

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 acknowledge that all people are different and believe that our differences are our strength. The diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together.

About the role

We are excited to announce an opportunity to join Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s central Business Improvement team who is looking for a Senior Advisor, SPS Support to join the team. Our Safe Production System pulls together our proven rituals and best practices and brings consistency and stability across our operations. It guides us on how we operate safely and simply, lead our people and continuously improve to become the best operator.

Fantastic opportunity to support in the delivery of the roadmap to meet the definition of success of Safe Production System (SPS) in Iron Ore. Focus on embedding, updating and optimising SPS standards and processes, provide expertise in how to effectively integrate SPS into business as usual (BAU) channels (including considerations around upskilling/cross-skilling, technology and systems), deliver projects to enable future sustainability, support site deployments and provide assurance.

You’ll be part of a supportive team, empowered by your leader, to grow and achieve your own personal goals as well as the objectives of the team. You’ll work on a Monday to Friday Perth based roster with flexible working arrangements which will give you more time to spend on the things that are important to you and the people in your life. 

Reporting to the Principal, SPS Support, you will:

• Optimise and integrate SPS practices, tools, methods and assets into Iron Ore
• Manage the implementation and deployment of new/enhanced SPS practices, improvement initiatives and design outcomes
• Identify and lead improvement projects using your project management and business improvement expertise
• Deliver projects to enable future sustainability of SPS
• Design and deliver workshops to key stakeholders to support the sustainability component of SPS
• Provide assurance of SPS practices using the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) framework and support with the coordination of the Operational Excellence Maturity Assessment (OEMA) schedule and process
• Actively promote safety awareness and safe work practices, through practices; and ensure ongoing compliance with safety management systems.
• View SPS through an operational lens to enhance deployment success; and guide deployment teams on the application best practices
• Identify and deliver initiatives that support the development of capability, mindsets and behaviours to drive a growth mindset
• Collaborate and partner with key stakeholders to optimise, integrate and sustain SPS practices and ways of working
• Support with the governance required to report on and deliver against SPS objectives
• Develop and deliver change, comms and engagement plans

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Continuous improvement and problem-solving skills and experience
• Demonstrated experience in improvement delivery, operational excellence and sustainability of projects
• Business improvement, change management and/or project management experience
• Ability to communicate new ideas and influence others
• Solid performance coaching capability
• Strong teamwork, communication and interpersonal skill
• Commitment to Rio Tinto value drivers of Care, Courage and Curiosity
• Lean experience highly regarded
• Change leadership highly regarded
• Operational experience highly regarded
• Candidates who have had exposure to production/operating systems will be highly regarded

If you are excited about the role and thinkyou have what it takes but your experience doesn't align 100%, we still want tohear from you. 

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 bonus
• 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, cultural leave)
• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them
• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more, read more about the huge range of benefits here: https://bit.ly/43AQLue

Who we are 

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.  

We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win and meet opportunities. 

Where you will be working

This is a Perth based role working out of our Central Park CBD office building including ad-hoc travel to our operations and assets in the Pilbara.

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own a world-class, integrated network of 17 mines, four independent port terminals, a rail network spanning nearly 2,000 kilometres and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand. We are one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of iron ore.

Applications close 21st of August 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)