Senior Advisor Environment Rio Tinto

Senior Advisor Environment
Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto, Porto, Portugal

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• Flexible, family friendly 9 day fortnight working roster
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits including medical benefits, healthy lifestyle package and share ownership plan
• Residential permanent role based in Gladstone, QLD
  
  

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a
- based Senior Environment Advisor to join our HSE team at Yarwun.

In this role you will partner with our operations and stakeholders to champion environmental performance. This is a great opportunity for an experienced Environmental Advisor who strives for excellence and enjoys working on dynamic portfolios of work.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive,
- 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.

Reporting to the Superintendent Environment and working in a collaborative team of environmental professionals within the Yarwun Health, Safety, Environment and Process Safety team, you will be:

• Interfacing with
  - site personnel to promote environmental goals and solve complex environmental issues including performing inspections to assess compliance risks.
• Preparing and submitting compliance reports and data required to comply with federal and state legal obligations including our license to operate.
• Managing and improving environmental outcomes, for example: surface water quality, stormwater management, monitoring, waste management, groundwater quality, emissions to air, incident reporting and hydrocarbon/contamination management.
• Delivering and participating in audits (internal & external) and reviewing environmental incidents in accordance with regulatory requirements, community obligations, and corporate policies.
• Providing environmental advice in the interpretation of legislation, acts and regulations.
• Identifying and implementing continuous improvement projects to deliver business efficiencies and goals.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• A Bachelor’s degree in an Environmental, Engineering or related discipline with knowledge of key concepts, theories and practices related to environmental aspects & impacts, risk management, State and Federal Legislation and environmental management systems.
• Experience with Federal and State (Queensland) Environment regulatory frameworks.
• 5 – 10 years of relevant industry (large scale smelting, processing or chemical manufacturing) or mining experience.
• Demonstrated experience in executing work in water (surface and ground), land (flora and fauna), sediment and erosion control aspects.
• Resilience and a dynamic approach to problem solving.
• Willingness to get hands on with problem solving and improvement and the ability to mentor members of the team.
• Working with site operations teams to ensure compliance with permits and to develop practical strategies for mitigating environmental risks.
• Excellent communication and partnering skills with the ability to work independently.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your 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
  - 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

Located in Central Queensland, approximately 10km
- west of Gladstone, Yarwun alumina refinery commenced operations in 2004. Processing bauxite from our mines in Weipa and Gove, Yarwun produces more than three million tonnes of smelter grade alumina annually.

As one of the largest industries in the Gladstone region, Yarwun employs over 700 people and has a large contractor workforce.

With a focus on safely improving our process every day, the team at Yarwun challenge themselves to use existing and emerging technology to support our 24 hour operation.

Yarwun is a proud member of the Gladstone community, and along with Boyne Smelters Limited and Queensland Alumina Limited, support community investments that improve the liveability of the Gladstone region through the Here for Gladstone community fund.

Applications close on Wednesday 26th March 2025

(Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)