Corporate Counsel, Pilbara Operations

• Work in a collaborative high-performing environment where success is achieved by working together
• Great exposure in supporting one of Australia's leading businesses
• Opportunity to shape our strategy and outcomes based on knowledge and experience
• Permanent role based in Perth

About the role

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

We are looking for a Corporate Counsel to join Rio Tinto's Iron Ore Legal team in supporting Rio Tinto's Pilbara Operations.

Reporting to the Chief Counsel - Pilbara Operations, you will;

• Deliver high quality, independent and timely legal advice and support to Rio Tinto Iron Ore across a wide variety of corporate, commercial and operational matters
• Assume a leading role in advising and supporting all Western Australia operations and management across work health and safety initiatives and matters, from policy and governance through to incident response, management and reporting
• Supporting tenure and land access arrangements, including proceedings before the Wardens Court
• Advising and supporting a broad range of employment and insurance related matters
• Coordinate and engage with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders including regulators
• Oversee cost effective management of external counsel
• Support internal reporting as well as governance and compliance functions and frameworks.

About you

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• At least 10 years' experience as a practicing lawyer, preferably with some expertise in work health and safety, and incident management
• Experience with managing litigation and supporting insurance related matters
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with a broad range of stakeholders
• Tertiary qualification in Bachelor of Law or equivalent and must hold a current legal practicing certificate

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, thinking and hard work and go home knowing you've helped the world progress.

A work environment where safety is always the number one priority

• A competitive salary package, with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees
• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
• Well-being benefits
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Individual well-being support for you and your family for personal and professional matter
• Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

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.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ 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.

Apply today if you want to work with respected and high performing legal team, in an environment where we support each other drive positive change.

Applications close on Friday 3 June 2022.