Trainer - Capability Development
Rio Tinto
Trainer - Capability Development
- Help shape the future talent of Rio Tinto
- FIFO from Perth or approved WA regional areas, Roster 8/6 dayshift
- Multiple roles available - Mining, Drill & Blast, Mobile Equipment Maintenance & Fixed Plant
- Excellent employee benefits
Applications are now open for a range of roles for professional trainers and assessors with the right mindsets, values, and behaviours to onboard and develop our people. These roles are designed to enable Rio Tinto Safe Production and focus on building capability across our operations.
Technical training teams are based onsite in a full-time capacity, providing technical training delivery for our frontline teams. The technical training team scope includes for mining operations, drill & blast operations, mobile equipment maintenance, fixed plant, and dewatering. Training requirements are defined by standardised learning pathway frameworks which incorporate the different levels of experience for new starters and existing employee ongoing development within each workstream.
This is a great opportunity for people who are passionate about unlocking human capability, building a diverse culture, and supporting safe productivity.
What you will do
Reporting to the Capability Development Training Supervisor the successful candidates will:
- Train frontline workforce through one on one, infield, classroom, or group delivery
- Perform assessments of training
- Conduct Verification of Competency assessments on High Risk Work Licenses where appropriate (Desirable for Fixed Plant)
- Support front line leaders
- Provide contingency resource for onsite onboarding
- Work in collaboration with internal teams for in field training in accordance with weekly training schedules
- Creating a positive and engaged and value aligned experience for new Rio Tinto employees
What you’ll bring
To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:
- Excellent communication skills to influence, engage and build strong rapport with key stakeholders
- Uphold and champion Rio Tinto’s core values and behaviours around Care, Courage and Curiosity
- A passion and curiosity to build knowledge of your stakeholders and the work they do
- Effective time management skills, the ability to balance multiple and competing priorities and demonstrated ability to support diverse groups to achieve desired outcomes
- Relevant On Job Trainer experience or qualification
- Certificate IV Training and Assessment (seen as advantageous but not essential)
- Proven track record of success in a similar role or relevant discipline
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
- Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements
- Career growth working within a high-performing, supportive and experienced team
- A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program and applicable travel allowances
- Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
- Attractive share ownership plan
- Company rebated 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)
Where you’ll be working
Rio Tinto operates the world's largest integrated portfolio of iron ore assets with industry-leading margins. Our premium product suite, including our flagship Pilbara blend, drives strong customer relationships and is supported by technical and commercial marketing expertise. The iron ore business continues to be the world's largest autonomous truck operator and a proud leader in automated mining technologies.
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 almost 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 on Friday 17th March. Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date.