Geotechnical Risk Management Leader for Pilbara Operations

4 days ago


Perth, Western Australia RioTinto Full time
Role Overview

This is a permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto, based in our Perth Hub, located in the Central Park building, 152-158 St Georges Terrace. The role will require some travel to our operating sites in the Pilbara region as required.

The role is focused on leading a team of geotechnical professionals who are responsible for the geotechnical assurance across all of our Pilbara Mining Operations and will therefore have significant insight and influence on the technical development and direction of the site-based geotechnical community.

About the Team

The team you'll be working with is dedicated to ensuring the highest level of safety, quality, and efficiency in our operations. As a Geotechnical Risk Management Leader, you'll be part of this team, contributing to the development of strategies to manage risks and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements.

You'll work closely with the design geotechnical engineering principals to provide site performance feedback to ensure that our geotechnical design strategy is optimized. You'll also contribute to identifying, developing, and implementing strategic geotechnical projects to benefit RTIO.

Your Key Responsibilities
  • Lead and work in a way that puts health, safety, and wellbeing of employees as a first priority
  • Develop effective relationships with site-based operational and technical leadership to promote the proactive implementation of our slope risk management standard
  • Ensure the team has appropriate resources and training to succeed in their roles
  • Mentor and provide coaching to direct team members and identify where coaching may be needed within the broader geotechnical community of 70+ professionals
  • Facilitate the interaction between the Life of Mine team and other key stakeholders to produce the best outcome for Rio Tinto
  • Manage stakeholder expectations through clear and appropriately frequent communication
  • Provide slope stability assurance guidance, geotechnical processes, and assurance reviews recommendations to all operational sites and associate stakeholders (Water Resource Evaluation, Resource Evaluation, Rail, Ports, etc)
  • Additional responsibility of "Qualified Individual" for selected Pilbara mines under Rio Tinto D3 standard for management of pit slopes, stockpiles, spoil, waste dumps, and natural slopes
What We Offer

A competitive base salary of $180,000 per annum, plus annual incentive program, comprehensive medical benefits, attractive share ownership plan, company-provided insurance cover, extensive salary sacrifice and salary packaging options, career development and education assistance, ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support, leave for all of life's reasons, and exclusive employee discounts.



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