Senior Human Resources Manager

Senior Human Resources Manager

• Permanent residential HR leadership role
• Attractive remuneration package including heavily subsidised housing
• Culturally unique coastal location – Weipa, Queensland

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the worldneeds.

We are looking for a Senior Human Resource Manager to support the Aluminium Pacific Operations achieve its business priorities and subsequent projects through human resources business partnering, training and indigenous employment for our Weipa operation.

This role is a great opportunity for a highly experienced HR professional to support to the business across a range of HR processes, policies and programs.

Reporting to the General Manager Human Resources, you will be:

• Translating business strategies, objectives and context into a human resource strategy.
• Constructively challenging and coaching leaders on their individual and collective effectiveness.
• Supporting leadership to define, build, and improve employee engagement.
• Engaging with leaders and leadership teams to position the need for change in relation to business objectives, and provide support to deliver, manage, and sustain the change.
• Collaborating with Areas of Expertise (AoE), Shared Services, and other internal service providers to deliver on identified HR needs within the business.
• Providing feedback and input into the effectiveness of HR processes, policies, programs, and systems to AoEs, Shared Services, and other parts of the organization.

About you

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

• Demonstrated experience in a similar role with a strong focus on safety.
• Experience coaching and influencing operational leadership teams in a way that tests conventional thinking and challenges the status quo.
• Demonstrated understanding and application of contemporary HR systems, processes and obligations.
• Experience in organisational design and implementation of appropriate tools and systems, organisation and development interventions and employee / labour relations.
• Demonstrated experience in strategy development and delivery.

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Applicable tertiary qualification.
• Experience with work readiness and indigenous employment strategies and programs.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, thinking and 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

Where you will be working

Rio Tinto is a global leader in aluminium, one of the world’s most widely used metals.

Active in the sector for more than 110 years, today we operate large-scale, high-quality bauxite mines and alumina refineries, and have the world’s most modern and competitive aluminium smelter portfolio.

Our Pacific Operations sites are located along the east coast of Australia, at the tip of the Northern Territory and in New Zealand’s south. With more than 6,000 employees, we operate a full value chain approach—mining, refining and smelting. Our portfolio includes four bauxite mines, two refineries, four smelters and one power station, and is supported by technical experts located in our Brisbane hub, including a fully operational Operations Centre for our bauxite mines.

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 LGBTQIA+ 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. 

Applications close Friday 27 January 2023. (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

Rio Tinto does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruiters or employment agencies. Rio Tinto will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles. Rio Tinto reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Rio Tinto.