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Superintendent Health & Safety

Employer
Rio Tinto
Location
Weipa, QLD, AU
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
May 24, 2021

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Superintendent Health & Safety
  • Opportunity to work with a global mining organisation
  • Be part of safe, positive and close knit team
  • Residential role. Enjoy a relaxed coastal lifestyle - Weipa

About the role

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

We are looking for a Superintendent Health & Safety to join the Health, Safety and Environment team at Weipa. The role is accountable for the work output of a large multi-disciplinary team delivering the Health, Safety and Emergency Services functions to the Weipa Bauxite portfolio. The rapidly expanding portfolio consists of three mining and processing operations and the associated supporting infrastructure including the township of Weipa.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced professional who will be responsible for the team's delivery of advice, planning, support and training of Health and Safety activities to the Operation. The role will also drive continuous improvement and effectively integrate health and safety activities with the day to day operations, to drive towards zero harm.

Leading on the frontline is one of the most important jobs in our business and comes with a huge amount of responsibility. We need you to motivate, inspire and keep your people safe and well.

Reporting to the Business Partner HSE - Weipa a challenging and exciting environment, you will be:
  • Partner with site leaders to maintain & improve safety performance;
  • Coordinate and Support the implementation of corporate and site health and safety initiatives;
  • Drive the incident management and investigation processes to maintain their high standards;
  • Undertake high level data analysis and interpretation of site safety and health trends and support site response to issues identified;
  • Operational control of the site Emergency Services team (professional) and the supporting Emergency Response Team (workplace volunteers);
  • Overseeing and reporting on the Critical Risk Management (CRM) system and the integration of the Human Performance program into the workplace;
  • Reporting to regulatory bodies for Health & safety issues on site;
  • Manage site preparation and execution of HSE audits / assessments;
  • Providing guidance and support to facilitate the delivery of health, hygiene and injury management functions.

What you will bring
  • Demonstrated experience in a health and safety leadership role within the heavy industrial environment.
  • Proven ability to build effective influencing relationships and provide strategic oversight over the development of complex operations.

It will also be beneficial if you have:
  • Tertiary qualification in safety or related a field
  • Experience working in a remote location.

What we offer
  • Domestic relocation assistance on offer
  • Weipa accommodation benefit
  • Remote area allowance
  • Remote area holiday travel assistance
  • Paid parental leave up to 9 months
  • Health cover scheme for employees and their immediate family
  • Salary sacrifice & packaging options rental, mortgage, super, vehicle
  • Rio Tinto employee share programme
  • Employee discounts banking, accommodation, motoring, retail and more.

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

Our Weipa Operations includes three bauxite mines, processing facilities, ship loaders, an export wharf, two ports, power stations, a rail network and ferry terminals. Located on the Western Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, each year the operation produces more than 35 million tonnes of bauxite.

Our operations are supported by a 1,900-strong workforceincluding 26 per cent who are women and 25 per cent Indigenous employees. Activities include mine operations, maintenance, asset management, ports, cultural heritage management, and processing facility management.

The development of our new mine, Amrun, which was completed in 2018, will extend the life of our Weipa bauxite operations by decades to come and significantly build on our 55-year history on the Western Cape.

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.

Company

We are curious and creative, ingenious and hard-working. We are pioneers – exploring the boundaries of everything we do. The materials we produce are essential to human progress, and we see that progress driven by our people. Working at Rio Tinto means touching people’s lives: from exploring new materials to finding ways to tackle climate change. 

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. And 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. 

Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

Company info
Website
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Rio Tinto
Telephone
+44 20 7781 2000
Location
6 St James's Square
London
London
SW1Y 4AD
Australia

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