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SalarySpecialist Process Safety | Yarwun
- Global mining and mineral processing organisation with an exceptional safety culture
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Supporting Yarwun Operations | Residential in Gladstone, QLD
- Permanent Full Time | Mon to Friday OR 9-day fortnight available
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
We are looking for a Specialist Process Safety to join our HSE team at Rio Tinto Yarwun to improve the inherent operability and integrity of assets and processes through the identification and improved understanding of the critical equipment, procedures, and practices.
This role is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to join the team and be responsible for ensuring that systems and process are in place to ensure the operation is compliant with all relevant health and safety standards to support our licence to operate.
Additionally, you will work closely with the project teams to provide Process Safety advice for the execution of decarbonisation efforts associated with the new Hydrogen pilot. Reporting into the Health, Safety and Environment Business Partner, you will be:
- Maintain and promote high standards in the areas of health, safety, risk assessment and risk management
- Perform audits of machinery, safety equipment and management programs to identify and correct potential hazards and to ensure safety compliance to regulations and standards
- Provide trusted advice on Process Safety matters to operational leaders in line with the Rio Tinto HSEQ Management System
- Participate in Process Safety incident investigations, including human factors and root cause analysis
- Develop and maintain a site Process Safety hazard risk register
- Provide routine information (e.g. statistics, incident information, risk analysis, educational material) to operational leaders
- Solve complex risk and safety design issues
- Identification and implementation of continuous improvement opportunities in all areas of the Process Safety Function
- Providing technical guidance on risk and the management of safety programs, standards and legislative requirements to support the hydrogen project
To be successful on this role you will demonstrate the following:
- A tertiary qualification in an Engineering or Applied Science discipline
- A demonstrated commitment to safety
- Experience working in a processing plant facility within a health and safety role
- Sound knowledge of risk management, risk assessments and their application
- Working experience with health and safety investigation tools.
- Experience in process improvement, project management, change management, stakeholder engagement or similar will be highly regarded to support the decarbonisation project effort
- An ability to work in a fast-paced environment managing competing priorities supporting multiple stakeholder groups
- Knowledge of relevant Australian HSE legislation/standards
- High level of integrity and values based decision making
- Strong communication and analytical skills
- A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
- 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); and
- Domestic Relocation packages where suitable
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
With production beginning in 2004 at our Yarwun alumina refinery, located approximately 10 kilometres north-west of Gladstone in Central Queensland, today the operation produces more than three million tonnes of alumina per year.
Around 700 people support the operation, with an additional 350 contractors on site each year as part of scheduled maintenance shutdown activities. Thanks to its ‘Industry 4.0’ focus, Yarwun is also a leader in trialling new technologies to improve operations on site, including 3D printing, robotics and drones in confined spaces, and is home to Rio Tinto’s innovative Queensland Research and Development Centre (QRDC).
Along with Boyne Smelters Limited and Queensland Alumina Limited, our Yarwun Operation supports the local community in a wide range of initiatives
Every Voice Matters
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.
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.
Applications close on 8th February 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)
