Senior Advisor-Health

• Join a leader in mining & metals offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities.
• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Work in an underground project located near Superior, Arizona.

We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide 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 Senior Advisor - Health for the Health, Safety, Environment, and Security team to provide technical leadership and specialist health expertise across our underground and surface mining operations.

This role is accountable for developing, implementing, and continuously improving occupational health programs, ensuring health risks are identified, controlled, and effectively managed in line with regulatory requirements and Rio Tinto standards. Working closely with operational leaders, contracting partners, and the broader HSES team, you will help embed a proactive health culture and support our ambition to be a best‑operator mine.

Reporting to the Principal Advisor Health, Safety, and Security and working in a collaborative community within the team, you will:

Role Responsibilities

• Lead and support the delivery of site occupational health programs, with a strong focus on underground health hazards (e.g., dust, noise, diesel particulate matter, thermal stress, hazardous substances).
• Provide expert health advice to operational leaders to proactively identify and manage health risks.
• Support compliance with MSHA, OSHA, and applicable occupational health legislation and standards.
• Oversee health exposure monitoring programs, medical surveillance, and hygiene assessments.
• Investigate health‑related incidents, near misses, and emerging trends, recommending sustainable corrective actions.
• Partner with contractors to ensure consistent awareness of health standards, compliance and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to training, coaching, and capability building across the workforce.
• Support continuous improvement through health audits, data analysis, and performance reporting.

About you

• Bachelor’s degree in occupational health, Industrial Hygiene, Health Sciences, or a related discipline
• Valid driver’s license
• 7+ years’ experience in occupational health or industrial hygiene roles, preferably in underground or heavy industrial mining environments with detailed working knowledge of mining health hazards, controls and program management.
• Experience working with regulatory bodies such as MSHA, OSHA and implementing health management systems.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organization.
• Comfortable working both underground and in surface operational environments.
• Proficient in health data management systems, for example Cority, and Microsoft Office tools.

What we offer

We are committed to providing our employees with a generous benefits package. Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking, your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress, we provide: 

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• Advantageous salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees 
• 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
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program, which allows you to purchase Rio Tinto Company shares
• Comprehensive leave policies which cover all moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave
• A favorable child-caregiver leave program (Up to 100% salary top-up)
• Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing
• Ongoing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family; to help in addressing educational opportunities, addiction treatment, depression, stress, domestic issues, financial management, and legal concerns 
• Our team and industry experts are here to support and work with you to explore your learning potential and career goals 

Where you will be working

You will be joining Resolution Copper at a pivotal moment in the project’s history. With the Resolution Copper Land Exchange now complete, the project is advancing its next phase of technical work, community engagement, and state permitting activities.

Resolution Copper has the potential to supply nearly 25% of total U.S. copper demand and generate several thousand direct and indirect jobs in the Pioneer Mining District of Arizona, delivering an economic value of several billion dollars over the life of the mine. The project will rely on block caving, a proven underground mining method that uses gravity to extract ore from a deposit located more than 2,000 meters below the surface. This technique is the most viable way to safely and efficiently recover the resource.

As development continues, Resolution Copper will expand its underground operations, conduct extensive drilling and orebody characterization, and maintain both the permitting process and ongoing public engagement with Native American tribes, local communities, and stakeholders.

The Resolution Copper project is vital to securing America’s energy future, infrastructure needs, and national defense by providing a domestic supply of copper and other critical minerals. Once operational, it has the potential to become one of the largest copper mines in the United States, contribute approximately $1 billion annually to Arizona’s economy, and create thousands of local jobs in a region with more than a century‑long mining heritage.

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.

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