Adviser HSE

Health and Safety Advisor – Gove, Northern Territory

• Take on a high-impact safety role where you’ll shape critical risk performance, influence senior leaders and help deliver safe outcomes across operations and closure activities
• Join a values-led organisation with a strong safety culture, genuine team connection and the opportunity to make a visible difference in a complex operating environment

• FIFO from Darwin, Cairns or Brisbane to Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, with the chance to contribute to meaningful work in one of Australia’s most unique and culturally significant regions

We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future.  Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other. 

About the role 

We are looking for an experienced and motivated 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 is an outstanding opportunity to step into a visible, value-adding role where you will shape safety outcomes, influence critical risk performance and build broad exposure across operational, contractor and closure environments at Gove.

Reporting to the Superintendent Health & Safety and working as part of a high-performing, cross-functional team, you will provide trusted safety advice and partner with leaders, contractors and frontline teams to strengthen critical risk management, assurance and continuous improvement across Gove Operations and Closure.

• Lead and support the delivery of strategic health and safety initiatives that strengthen performance across Gove Operations and Closure
• Coach, mentor and influence supervisors, contractors and frontline teams to ensure critical risks are understood, controlled and consistently managed
• Facilitate incident review and risk management workshops, including sessions attended by senior leaders
• Conduct and oversee incident investigations using Essential Factors or TapRoot methodologies, and communicate findings and actions to senior leadership
• Analyse health and safety trends, identify systemic issues and drive practical, sustainable improvement initiatives
• Provide subject matter expertise in critical risk management programs, risk management systems and first line assurance activities
• Partner with contractor organisations to support the safe delivery of services and projects in line with Rio Tinto standards
• Work autonomously in the field while collaborating effectively across operational, closure and functional teams

About you 

To succeed in this role, you will bring strong technical safety capability, sound judgement and the confidence to influence across all levels of the business.

• A commitment to the safety of yourself, your team and community.
• Demonstrated experience in a health and safety role, with solid experience delivering strategic safety initiatives in an operational environment
• Relevant tertiary qualification in Workplace Health and Safety
• Deep understanding of critical risk management programs, risk management systems and first line assurance frameworks
• Proven ability to coach, mentor and influence supervisors, contractors and frontline teams to improve risk awareness and control effectiveness
• Strong experience leading incident investigations and facilitating incident review or risk management workshops with senior stakeholders
• Ability to work independently while contributing positively to a high-performing, cross-functional team

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

Where you’ll be working 

Our Gove site in Australia’s Northern Territory has been supplying the global aluminium industry with world-class bauxite for more than 40 years. 

Gove bauxite is shipped internationally as well as domestically to supply Queensland Alumina Limited and Yarwun refineries in Gladstone, Queensland.

These refineries produce alumina as feedstock for our Australian aluminium smelting operations and for sale on the international market. 

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About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.

We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Respect and Inclusion

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.