General Manager Rio Tinto Gove

• Career-defining opportunity to contribute directly to Rio Tinto becoming the Best Operator
• Permanent Full-Time role based in Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory (NT), Australia
• Comprehensive portfolio including bauxite operations, closure execution projects, Nhulunbuy town transition and stakeholder relationship lead

With a dual reporting line to the Chief Operating Officer, Rio Tinto Aluminium Pacific Operations and the General Manager Closure Delivery APAC, we are seeking a General Manager accountable for the Health, Safety and Environmental compliance, production performance, stakeholder engagement and closure activities as we transition to the end of mine life at our Gove operation, located in the NT, Australia.

Some of the key accountabilities of the role will include:

• Leading site management team comprising of operations and closure leaders and functional business partners
• Site Operations, Closure and contractor workforce of approximately 600
• Operation of Town Assets and progressive transition to post mining outcomes 
• Relationship lead for Traditional Owners and key stakeholders, as well as Communities and Social Performance (CSP) risk and outcomes
• Development and delivery of the Gove closure execution strategy, that maintains and preserves cost, schedule, social and environmental outcomes, including agreed remediation, cultural outcomes and commitments 
• Ensuring appropriate capability and technical skillsets are maintained, including CSP and Environment 
• Facilitating engagement with regulators to progress relinquishment pathway/s and maintenance of legal compliance.
• Developing and managing a workforce engagement plan which ensures a pathway and change management is in place to ensure the operations are sustainably managed over the remaining life of operation in tandem with safe, efficient execution of closure programs of work

What you’ll bring to be successful in the role

• A commitment to living the Rio Tinto values of Care, Courage and Curiosity
• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your colleagues
• Experience living and operating in more than one country or cultural context (in addition to home country) and in remote locations. Experience and high impact performance in two or more commodities or functions (including support functions, technical functions operations, areas of expertise).
• Strong people leadership skills, having led operational and functional teams.
• Skills and experience across studies, project delivery, operations and closure; proven track record of safe and efficient delivery and continuous improvement  
• Strong stakeholder engagement capability, including Communities, Government and Regulatory. Relationship owner/lead for key stakeholders, including Traditional Owners
• Experience implementing programmes to increase business growth and/or profitability (e.g. reducing costs, commercial).

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 and social licence 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 and salary packaging options
• Career development and education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
• Relocation assistance where necessary

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

Rio Tinto is a global leader in aluminium, one of the world’s most widely used metals.

Active in the sector for more than 110 years, today we operate large-scale, high-quality bauxite mines and alumina refineries, and have the world’s most modern and competitive aluminium smelter portfolio.

Our Aluminium Pacific Operations sites are located along the east coast of Australia, at the tip of the Northern Territory and in New Zealand’s south. With more than 6,000 employees, we operate a full value chain approach—mining, refining and smelting. Our portfolio includes four bauxite mines, two refineries, four smelters and one power station, and is supported by technical experts located in our Brisbane hub, including a fully operational Operations Centre for our bauxite mines.

Rio Tinto Closure (RTC) safely transforms Rio Tinto’s end of life mining, processing and infrastructure assets by developing innovative and sustainable solutions to leave a positive closure legacy. We collaborate with all parts of Rio Tinto to focus on maximising post operational opportunities, de-risking and reducing the scale of closure liabilities and executing existing and near-term closures at optimal cost.

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 18th August 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.