Specialist Business Improvement

Specialist Business Improvement – Greater Nammuldi

• Our friendly teams look after each other because your safety and wellbeing are always our priority 

• Work is just part of your life, our benefits are designed to make life better 

• FIFO from Perth, Geraldton, Albany, or Busselton.

About the role

We are looking for a Specialist Business Improvement to join the Greater Nammuldi Operational Excellence team to drive innovation and site initiatives to deliver additional sustained value in accordance with company safety, environmental and statutory requirements. 

This opportunity is suited to a motivated individual who is passionate about driving business improvement and contributing to our organisation's success. If you are ready to make an impact and thrive in a dynamic environment, we encourage you to apply. Join us in shaping the future of our company.

You have the option to either work on an 8 days on, 6 days off roster from Perth, Busselton, Geraldton, or Albany, or choose to fly in and out of Perth on a 5/2,4/3 roster. These flexible rosters will give you more time to focus on what's important to you and spend time with the people in your life.

Reporting to the Principal Business Improvement you will:

• Facilitating and leading high value projects across site using recognised Business Improvement methodologies

• Coaching and influencing project owners to deliver results quickly and with maximum value

• Interpreting costs and production drivers to inform strategic thinking and the evaluation and prioritisation of initiatives

• Undertaking KPI analysis, improvements and project work designed to identify opportunities to add business value

• Assisting in the facilitation of our transformation program maturity

• Creating a site culture of sustainable improvement.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset

• A tertiary qualification in Commerce, Engineering or related discipline

• Lean Six Sigma (ideally Black Belt or higher) and/or similar Business Improvement certification

• Experience leading Kaizen projects

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies

• Power BI capability preferred

• Extensive experience using business improvement processes within the mining, manufacturing or heavy industry

• Demonstrated workshop facilitation capability

• Project team leadership experience

• Confident interpersonal style with experience collaborating across a diverse stakeholder group

• A current C class manual drivers’ licence

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

• Full relocation provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia

• 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.

We are committed to elevating Indigenous voices and increasing cultural knowledge in our business. Diversity of skills, life experiences and perspectives within our team enhances our way of working and our ability to achieve success together. To help you on your journey with us, you’ll also have access to:

• Specialist Indigenous Support Advisors are always there for our Indigenous employees and available to support through any aspect of your employment

• Dedicated Indigenous Talent Programme for our Operators and Tradespersons and entry level operational roles. This programme is designed to create long term sustainable careers for our Indigenous Employees to grow into leadership or technical pathways to ensure you have every opportunity to grow your career.

• Indigenous leadership programmes across some professional and operational roles to ensure that we are developing Indigenous Leaders.

Where you will be working

Greater Nammuldi is located on the lands of the Muntlgura Guruma people in the Eastern Pilbara, approximately 90 kilometres southwest of Tom Price. Originally part of Greater Brockman, operations began in 1992 with the commencement of work at Brockman 2, the first FIFO operation for Hammersley Iron.

Its operations are made up of Nammuldi BWT, Brockman 2, and Silvergrass, moving around 200-million tonnes of dirt per year. Nammuldi is also one of the first autonomous mines established in the world.

Witha FIFO workforce of around 1400, our team commutes from Perth, Geraldton, Albany and Busselton. 

Applications close on the 1st of April 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

About Rio TintoRio 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 situations and meet opportunities.

Every Voice MattersAt 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.