Specialist Environment - Gove

Specialist Environment

• Global mining organisation with an exceptional safety culture
• Permanent Full Time or flexible work options considered
• Diverse portfolio
• Residential role

About the role

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

We are looking for an experienced Environment Specialist to support the Gove site. Within this role, you will use your technical knowledge and interpersonal skills to effectively partner with internal, government and EPCM stakeholders to deliver positive environmental outcomes for operations, closure and project activity occurring onsite. 

This is a fantastic opportunity to manage a diverse portfolio of work within Rio Tinto Aluminium operations, situated within the breathtaking Gove Peninsula. Working a 5 day on, 2 day off roster and reporting to the HSE Business Partner, the role broadly entails:

• Lead a team of advisors and technicians to deliver the site environmental and monitoring programs, license, and reporting requirements

• Providing strategic input and driving action plans to manage key environment risks and opportunities
• Implementation and verification of the business’ environmental management systems
• Developing and implementing site wide environment projects and initiatives
• Undertaking assurance activities to meet compliance and business standard requirements across operational and closure projects
• Working collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders providing specialist environmental advice that addresses current and anticipated future risks for operations, studies, and project execution.
• Coordinate a range of environmental activities across multiple work fronts.

What you’ll bring

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• A Bachelor’s degree in an Environmental or related discipline
• Strong knowledge of key concepts, theories and practices related to the control of environment related risks, legal compliance requirements and environmental management systems
• Experience partnering with teams to provide technical support and drive performance
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a cross functional team
• Ability to work autonomously and independently under pressure, with reliability and accuracy

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

• Domestic relocation assistance on offer
• Remote area allowance
• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements

• 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)
• Relocation packages where suitable

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins witha 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’ll be working

Our Gove Operations have been supplying the global aluminium industry with world-class bauxite for more than 40 years. Located in Australia’s Northern Territory, each year the operation produces approximately 12 million tonnes of bauxite.

With a workforce of 460 people, daily activities include mine operations, maintenance, asset management, shutdown planning and execution, export operations, cultural heritage management, and closure activities following our decision to close the site’s alumina refinery and associated Residue Disposal Area in 2017. 

We expect our bauxite mining operations on the Gove Peninsula will cease in 2030 and we are undertaking significant work to support closure of the operation. We also recognise our operations take place on Indigenous-owned land, and we are committed to working together to achieve a positive future for Nhulunbuy and the Gove Peninsula post-mining.

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.