Principal Advisor - Process Safety
- Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
- Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
- Permanent role based in Brisbane
About the role
All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.
We are looking for a Process Safety expert to provide expertise in supporting the assets to safely and reliably deliver business objectives through the operationalisation, implementation and embedding of process safety systems, process and initiatives.
This is a great opportunity to be exposed to several different processes apart from just mining including copper, titanium dioxide, lithium, bore, aluminium.
We are an open, connected international team of technical specialists using some of the most exciting data and tools on the planet. We are the world leader in automation and smart mining.
We have technical development programmes that are industry-leading and recognise the unique nature of your role. These provide opportunities to grow your career through a dedicated technical path while being rewarded for your unique skills.
The process safety expert influences our assets to ensure the safety of our people by building and maintaining process safety standards across a networked technical organisation.
Reporting to the Chief Advisor Group Processing Assurance and working in a collaborative and exciting environment within the Group Technical Processing team, you will be:
- Providing expert advice on process safety across the group to avoid events and keep our people safe
- Supporting the assets to materially improve their Process Safety Performance, Process Control & Production delivery reliability
- Delivering tools, training, development opportunities, metrics and standards governance that help assure performance
- Providing technical expertise to support improvements
- Advising Group, Product Group and Assets on next generation technology priorities
- Focusing on high risk and high value threats and opportunities at the Group level, work with Product Group and assets to ensure that these Group level risks and addressed in their Process Safety and Productivity
- Identifying and creating further improvement opportunities through modelling, simulation and data analysis
- Networking with external experts, suppliers to support improvements
What you will bring
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
- Able to influence strategy; translate strategy into practical and innovative solutions; and deliver improved productivity
- Able to anticipate future functional and operational business needs, and effectively deploy functional resources to achieve agreed outcomes.
- Experience in process hazard analysis such as: HAZID, HAZOP, Bow-Ties, ALARP, SIMOP’S, facility layout and consequence analysis
- Experience in operating, consulting and design is highly desirable
- Agility in leveraging capability across groups
- Strong leadership and stakeholder capability
- Experience with implementation, support, training and team building
What we offer
Be recognised for your contribution, you’re 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
- 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)
- Relocation assistance where necessary
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
You will be part of the Center of Excellence in Processing, a hub created to support all the assets in achieving and sustaining process safety excellence. You will be expose to several mining and processing across the group.
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.
