Specialist Communications and Engagement

Specialist Communications and Engagement

• Values matter here
• Use your skills and creativity to craft communications to engage our people
• Dampier based Residential or FIFO on a 5/2/4/3 with flexible work arrangements considered

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

Rio Tinto Rail Division is currently recruiting for a Specialist Communications and Engagement to provide communications expertise and deliverables across the Rail portfolio, ensuring leaders are aligned on priorities and messaging and employees feel valued, and are well communicated with, whilst liaising with the Rio Tinto External Affairs and Communications teams. 

Reporting to the Manager Strategy, with a dotted line into the External Affairs & Communications team, key accountabilities for this position will be to: 

• Provide strategic and tactical communications and engagement advice and assistance to leaders across three rail divisions – Rail Operations, Rail Maintenance, Rail Engineering  
• Support the leadership team to identify and develop strategic communications and engagement to manage risks
• Develop, coordinate and distribute communications and engagement activities that support key business priorities 
• Ensure effective distribution of content via various channels, including up and across the matrix organisation 
• Develop team-based communications action plans and ensure a regular drumbeat of effective communications and provide advice and assistance to leaders
• Identify positive stories that can be shared within Rail, all of Iron Ore and/or externally to enhance the reputation of the team and Rio Tinto  
• Work collaboratively with the Rail Events team to develop an annual events portfolio and supporting communication plans, to drive attendance and engagement 
• Monitor, report and evaluate communications and engagement impact on driving key divisional priorities 
• Maintain regular liaison with Supply Chain Services Communications Team, External Affairs and Communications Team and the broader Iron Ore Communications Network to ensure alignment, and leverage content and best practice 
• Ensure appropriate alignment of Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s strategy with team communications. 

This is a permanent position working 5/2/4/3 out of the 7 Mile Building in Dampier. There will be flexibility to work from home on occasional days and ad hoc travel to Perth when and as required. 

About you

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

• Strong communication/interpersonal skills with ability to influence stakeholders and build effective partnerships
• Demonstrated background in providing strategic advice in communications with a high level of influence with senior leadership
• Ability to support events and engagement opportunities with the workforce
• A drive and eagerness to develop
• Ability to work autonomously, drive outcomes and meet action plans
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office skills
• Current C class drivers’ licence
• Related industry exposure desirable
• Experience in filming, photography and video editing well regarded

What we offer 

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority 
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions 
• 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 
• 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); and 
• Local relocation packages offered for Australian residents only 

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 

We operate 200 locomotives on more than 1,700 kilometres of track in the Pilbara, transporting ore from 16 mines to four port terminals. The average return distance of these trains is about 800 kilometres with the average journey cycle, including loading and dumping, taking approximately 40 hours. Our network is the largest privately owned and operated heavy haul rail system in Australia, and as we focus on the future, our vision is to become the greatest heavy haul railway in the world. 

Every Voice Matters 

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. 

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