Specialist Business Improvement

Business Improvement Specialist – Paraburdoo

• Join our Operational Excellence team in driving innovative change
• We are all part of the improvement journey!
• Permanent position FIFO ex Perth or residential to Paraburdoo

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

The Operational Excellence team is looking to recruit an experienced Business Improvement Specialist who has the passion and demonstrated capability to deliver value by leading initiatives, coaching, and sustaining improvement through BI best practices.

The Operational Excellence team is part of the Paraburdoo Mine operations leading performance improvement by embedding best practices with oversight across Business Improvement, Contractor Management, Risk and Capital Management, People Logistics and Administration.

Reporting to the Business Improvement Principal, this position will:

• Lead, facilitate and deliver high value business improvement initiative using structured improvement methodologies
• Analyse value chain, performance trend and benchmark performance to provide insights to operational leaders to establish pipeline of improvement initiatives.
• Interpreting costs and production drivers to inform strategic thinking and the evaluation and prioritisation of initiatives
• Foster improvement skills like lean, problem solving and waste elimination
• Lead, coach, refine and sustain the practices of RTSPS
• Create a site culture of sustainable improvement.

This permanent position will be offered on a 5/2/4/3 roster flying out of Perth, Western Australia or the unique opportunity to be residential to Paraburdoo. 

Where you will be working

Located 80km southwest of Tom Price, Paraburdoo is a town nestled in some of the most scenic landscape in Western Australia. Paraburdoo is recognised for its beautiful scenery, wildlife diversity and close to Karijini National Park. Paraburdoo prides itself on being a safe and friendly community; ideal for young families. The picturesque town provides residents with a range of leisure facilities and local amenities including a domestic airport, hospital, community centre, childcare centre, primary school, parks and a variety of sporting facilities. The recently built Paraburdoo Sports, Fitness and Community Complex offers state of the art facilities including an Olympic-size swimming pool, indoor basketball court and gym.

About you

To be considered for this role, you will have:

• A tertiary qualification and/or significant experience in a directly relevant role
• Proven skills in the use of BI methodologies (i.e Lean and/or Six Sigma) that deliver measurable results
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to draw insights from data analysis
• Skills in the Microsoft Business Intelligence Suite with expert proficiency in Power BI and Excel highly regarded
• Genuine interest in coaching and fostering a continuous improvement (CI) mindset and thinking
• Effective verbal and written communication skills including confident presentation skills.

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements
• 18 weeks of gender-neutral and equal paid parental leave, with continued superannuation contributions whilst employees are on unpaid or half paid parental leave
• 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).

About Rio Tinto

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.

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.

Applications close 5 May 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)