Superintendent Health

• Build your career in HSE leadership, with opportunities to develop your capability across health systems, risk, assurance and operational leadership.
• Work at Kennecott, a fully integrated mining operation just outside Salt Lake City, and influence health outcomes across the operation.
• Join a collaborative HSE environment where your expertise will help strengthen health systems, team capability and operational decision-making.

At Rio Tinto, we are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming workplace where everyone feels safe, respected, and able to succeed. We actively encourage applications from women and from people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We know that great technical capability comes in many forms, and we’re focused on building teams that reflect the communities we operate in and support each other to do their best work.

We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide the 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 a Superintendent Health and Emergency Services to provide specialist leadership across Kennecott’s health, hygiene, exposure, injury management and emergency response activities. This role will shape and continually improve health systems, provide strategic insight into health risks and performance, and partner with leaders across the operation to strengthen decision-making and health outcomes.

Reporting to the Manager HSE Risk & Governance and working collaboratively with operational and functional teams, you will be responsible for:

• Leading the development and continuous improvement of health systems, including hazard identification, exposure data capture and risk assessment.
• Providing expert guidance to operational leaders to strengthen HSEQ management systems and audit and assurance programs.
• Analysing health performance data to identify trends, emerging risks and opportunities to improve health outcomes.
• Leading strategic programs across clinic operations, injury management, hygiene, exposure and ERT/EMT response.
• Supporting audits, health risk assessments and compliance reviews, ensuring health hazards are identified and effectively controlled.
• Ensuring compliance with applicable US regulatory requirements and Rio Tinto Health and HSE policies.
• Providing senior leaders and key stakeholders with clear health performance insights, recommendations and improvement opportunities.
• Leading, coaching and developing the team while partnering across the operation to strengthen health capability and consistent practices.

About you

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• Bachelor’s Degree or relevant qualification.
• Extensive experience in HSE management, preferably in mining, construction or industrial environments.
• Extensive knowledge of OSHA, MSHA and US Environmental regulations, together with health risk management best practices.
• Proven experience developing, implementing and improving HSE programs and health systems, including health risk assessment and mitigation.
• Strong leadership capability, including experience leading diverse teams and coaching, mentoring and developing others.
• Strong strategic thinking, communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to collaborate and influence without authority.
• A thoughtful and analytical approach, with the ability to remain calm under pressure, anticipate risk and deliver in a complex operational environment.

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority.
• Competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with an annual incentive bonus.
• Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits.
• Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401k matching program.
• Attractive share ownership plan.
• Comprehensive leave policies which cover all the moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.
• A generous parental leave policy, which ensures you’re able to spend quality time with your new family.
• Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), which provides confidential counselling or expert guidance for you and your family to help get through life’s challenges.

Where you'll be working

Our Kennecott mine is a world-class, fully integrated copper mining operation, including a concentrator, smelter, and refinery, located just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. We produce copper, precious metals including gold and silver, molybdenum, and sulfuric acid. Kennecott has been mining and processing minerals from the rich ore body of the Bingham Canyon Mine since 1903 and is one of the top producing mines in the world, comprising approximately 11 percent of U.S. annual copper production.

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

Rio Tinto is committed to equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel safe, respected and valued. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome but are essential to our success. We treat all our people fairly and with dignity.

Rio Tinto participates in E- Verify to confirm work authorization. Please visit http://www.ucis.gov/ for more information.