Senior HR Adviser

Senior HR Adviser

• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & career opportunities
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Opportunity to be based in Perth or Brisbane

About your role

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

We are looking for a Senior HR Advisor to provide HR Relationship Management, operational & tactical support to the Copper business unit. This role is offering the opportunity to be based in Perth or Brisbane on a permanent full-time basis.

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.In our team, we look to our Senior Advisors to provide Human Resource support and advice, including the provision of coaching to leaders within the Copper remit on the application of Human Resource systems while ensuring the implementation and execution of Rio Tinto Human Resource policies and programs. As a senior member of our team, you will be leading by example, have a love and focus on developing team members, be very customer focused and comfortable working with our senior leaders in the business on complex and confidential matters. Being pragmatic and able to manage anything and everything that may arise is a key part of this role.

• Participating as a member of the Copper HR team
• Lead process champion initiatives such as employee engagement, performance and capability improvement
• Act as process / project sponsor for key projects or process improvements
• Influence and guide team members, displaying the expected leader behaviour
• Delivering complex and high-level human resources advice and service to leaders
• Advise on human resources policies and procedures, employee relations, performance and regulatory issues
• Provide coaching to leaders in our business to support effective workplace relationships and increase skill level in employee management; drive leader self-service capability
• Identify and drive improvement initiatives and solutions to enhance people effectiveness/productivity
• Develop skills and provide advice, support and coach in the use of human resources systems (e.g., remuneration/benefits, performance management)
• Support case management
• Partner with Human Resource Business Partners with the implementation of initiatives and recurring annual activities such as remuneration review, talent review and performance

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor’s degree in HR or other relevant field or equivalent industry experience.
• Solid HR generalist experience.
• Track record of HR project delivery, commitment to service excellence and proven experience in stakeholder engagement and management.
• Experience working with clients at all organisation levels across-cultural environment
• HRIS experience strongly preferred (preferably with SAP)
• Strong communication, problem solving and analysis skills
• Effective time management and personal organisational skills – autonomous approach to work
• Knowledge of MS Office / Teams / SharePoint
• A willingness to learn
• Knowledge of the Rio Tinto Policies, Standards and Procedures highly desirable
• Experience using HSE Management Systems and BI Reporting tools highly advantageous

What we offer

• Competitive salary package
• Generous leave entitlements
• Discounted Health cover scheme (Medibank) for employees and their immediate family.
• Eligible for the Rio Tinto employee share programme.
• Salary sacrifice & packaging options - rental, mortgage, super, vehicle.
• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Learning and development opportunities to support your desired technical, or leadership career path
• We also offer exclusive employee discounts all over the world together with a wellness program for physical and mental wellbeing through fitness and activity allowances.

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

The HR function supports an estimated 46 000 employees in around 36 countries and operates out of three business hubs in Brisbane, Perth and Montreal; and a Copper hub in Utah, USA. People Services provide HR advisory, global mobility, talent acquisition and recruitment, employee relations, remuneration and performance services to leaders, employees & HR business partners

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.