Advisor HSE

Rio Tinto
Gove, AU
Competitive
May 11, 2021
Jun 02, 2021
1335402803
Permanent
Full Time
English
Health and Safety Advisor Gove, Northern Territory
  • Exciting opportunity to champion health and safety initiatives to keep our people and contractors safe
  • Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
  • Permanent residential role supporting the Gove Operation and Closure team, Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory

We are looking for a Health and Safety Advisor to provide dedicated health and safety support to the Operations and Closure teams at Gove. The role will also partner with contractors to support the safe delivery of services and projects.

This role is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic qualified safety advisor to make positive impact to Gove Operations and Closure

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry's best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Working in a challenging and exciting environment as a valued member of the Gove HSE Team, you will:
  • Educate, communicate and engage with site leaders, operational personnel and Rio Tinto HSE groups
  • Analyse data and ensuring compliance with the Rio Tinto Health and Safety standards and legislative requirements
  • Support and participate in the investigations to prevent repeat incidents occurring
  • Work across the health and safety function to support the standardisation and simplification of systems and processes
  • Recommending key control methods (considering the hierarchy of control) for health and safety risk reduction and evaluate control effectiveness
  • Participate in and facilitate risk register reviews
  • Support the delivery of strategic safety initiatives
  • Lead and support business wide health and safety improvement initiatives
  • Conduct health and safety assurance and governance activities
  • Work with contractor partners to support safe delivery of projects in alignment with the Rio Tinto Health and Safety Management System

What you'll bring
  • A commitment to the safety of yourself your team and community
  • Tertiary or certificate qualification in health, safety, engineering or related field
  • Operational experience in the application of Health and Safety systems.
  • Experience in supporting the safe delivery of operational and maintenance related projects
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to work independently but effectively in a cross functional team
  • Excellent influencing and engagement skills
  • Preferable a manual driver's license.

What we offer
  • A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
  • A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
  • 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)
  • Possible domestic relocation assistance

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'll be working

Rio Tinto is a global leader in aluminium, one of the world's most widely used metals.

Active in the sector for more than 110 years, today we operate large-scale, high-quality bauxite mines and alumina refineries, and have the world's most modern and competitive aluminium smelter portfolio.

Our Pacific Operations sites are located along the east coast of Australia, at the tip of the Northern Territory and in New Zealand's south. With more than 6,000 employees, we operate a full value chain approachmining, refining and smelting. Our portfolio includes four bauxite mines, two refineries, four smelters and one power station, and is supported by technical experts located in our Brisbane hub, including a fully operational Operations Centre for our bauxite mines.

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