Manager HSE | Boyne Smelters Limited (BSL)

• Permanent, full-time opportunity which includes attractive salary, annual incentives and a range of additional benefits designed to make your life better

• Shape a culture where safety comes first – leading HSE strategy, building capability and delivering lasting operational excellence

• Gladstone-based role where you can enjoy all the perks of living in a coastal location

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

As a Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Manager, you will play a critical role in driving a safe, compliant and high-performing operation across your region of accountability. You will lead the delivery of HSE systems, processes and programs that effectively manage risk, enhance capability and support continuous improvement.

Reporting into senior leadership, you will influence across the business and lead a team to embed a strong safety culture aligned to Rio Tinto’s values and standards.

What you’ll bring

• Demonstrated experience leading HSE functions in complex operational or industrial environments

• Strong knowledge of health, safety and environmental legislation and regulatory requirements

• Proven ability to implement HSE systems, policies and procedures that drive compliance and performance

• Experience analysing incidents, identifying trends and implementing improvements to prevent recurrence

• Strong leadership capability, with experience developing and coaching teams

• Ability to influence, engage and build trusted relationships with stakeholders across all levels

• A continuous improvement mindset with a focus on risk management and operational excellence

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 leadership role with the opportunity to influence safety outcomes at scale

• Competitive salary package with performance-based incentives

• Career development and progression opportunities within a global organisation

• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family

• Access to industry-leading training, tools and systems

• Flexible work options and a supportive team environment

• Attractive share ownership plan

• 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)

Where you’ll be working

Opened in 1982, Boyne Smelters Limited is Australia’s second largest aluminium smelter with a 1,000-person strong workforce. Located approximately 20 kilometres southeast of Gladstone at Boyne Island on the Central Queensland coast, BSL produces around 500,000 tonnes of aluminium per annum. 

Activities at BSL include manufacturing carbon anodes in the carbon plant, aluminium production (smelting) in reduction lines, and casting of molten material into aluminium products ready to ship. The smelter is connected via a conveyor belt to the Queensland Alumina Limited refinery for the supply of alumina.

Boyne Smelters is proud to contribute to the local community alongside the Rio Tinto Gladstone Aluminium sites – QAL and Yarwun refinery – through impactful funding initiatives and regional investment.

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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.