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Form of work HR Business Partner
Senior HR role partnering with our Pilbara coastal leadership team
Translate business strategies into people strategies
Support our Iron Ore Business to achieve its vision to be the most valued resource business
Karratha or Dampier based with flexible working arrangements available, company housing benefits and residential benefits
About the role
All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.
At Rio Tinto, in the world of HR business partnering, no two days are the same. People touch every element of our business strategy, and the opportunities and challenges that we need to solve as a global organisation are complex. Our HR business partners are here to work alongside our business leaders in translating business strategies, objectives, and context into People strategies while supporting the design and implementation of programmes and interventions to build team and organisational effectiveness as well as define, build, and maintain employee engagement.
As a HR business partner and member of the leadership team within the portfolio that you support, your input is highly valued to shape the People strategy specific to your portfolio; each portfolio unique and offering you the opportunity to stretch and diversify your experience and exposure across a variety of business and function specific challenges over the course of your career.
We are looking for a HR Business Partner to join our Iron Ore business and partner with some of our supply chain assets based on our Pilbara Coast. Our supply chain assets include our rail, ports, utilities, facilities, and Dampier Salt Operations.
This is a great opportunity to support our Iron Ore business to achieve its vision to be the most valued resource business. Being residentially based in idyllic coastal towns Dampier or Karratha means your opportunity to influence extends beyond the assets; you’ll have the opportunity to play a senior role in the local community, connecting with and contributing to continuing the vibrancy of the local community. You’ll also enjoy a coastal lifestyle and be able to take advantage of the many benefits of living in these regional towns.
Reporting to the General Manager Human Resources, you’ll coach and advise leadership teams, act as an escalation point to resolve significant and complex issues, and where required, support business leaders to deliver, manage, and sustain change.
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.
What you’ll bring
A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
A HR or business-related qualification
Business partnering experience within a large, networked organisation
Ability to define strategy and translate that strategy into executable and measurable outcomes
Proven ability to engage, influence and collaborate with senior leadership teams with a good application of contemporary HR systems, processes, and obligations
Ability to coach and influence senior leaders in a way that tests conventional thinking and challenges the status quo
Experience in organisational design and implementation of appropriate tools and systems, organisation and development interventions and employee/labour relations
It will also be beneficial if you have experience within resources/heavy industry/manufacturing sector.
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)
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
In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own an integrated portfolio of iron ore assets: a world-class, integrated network of 17 mines, four independent port terminals, a 1,700 kilometre rail network and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand.
We are one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of iron ore.
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 the 6th of December 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)
