Environment Adviser | Gladstone

• Bring your environmental expertise to the frontline and help shape better, more sustainable outcomes across our operations

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

• Gladstone-based role working Monday to Friday (9-day fortnight) roster, providing you with the ability to live and enjoy the coastal lifestyle

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 an Environment Adviser to join our HSE team at Rio Tinto’s Yarwun Refinery.

In this role, you will partner with site operations and other service function professionals to champion Environmental, Safety and Health performance. This is a great opportunity for an individual who strives for excellence and enjoys working on both core functions and dynamic project work.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best professionals and developing talent. We offer competitive, performance-based remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Superintendent Environment, and working as part of a team of environmental professionals, you will:

• Partner with operations and maintenance teams and stakeholders to support environmental risk management and reduction

• Implement and verify the business’ Integrated Environmental Management System alongside other Rio Systems

• Manage a range of environmental issues, for example: fauna/flora, surface and ground water quality, stormwater and erosion control, marine environment impacts, air emissions, extraction, land clearing, and rehabilitation activities and offset area management

• Project manage various contractors and consultants providing environmental services

• Provide environmental advice in the interpretation of legislation, acts, and regulations

• Prepare and submit compliance and investigation assessment reports in association with our licence to operate

• Collate, review, and interpret data for internal Rio Tinto and statutory reporting purposes

About you

The successful candidate will have the following:

• Relevant tertiary qualification/s in Environmental Science, Environmental Management, or a related discipline

• Knowledge of concepts, theories and practices related to environmental aspects and impacts, risk management, State and Federal Legislation and integrated environmental management systems

• Knowledge of Management Systems ISO 14000:1 and the Queensland Environment regulatory framework

• Experience applying environmental management practices within an operational or industrial environment (large scale mineral processing or chemical manufacturing)

• Demonstrated experience in executing work with a strong attitude towards environmental, health and safety improvement

• Excellent communication and partnering skills with the ability to work both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with experience identifying risks and developing practical solutions

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking, and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority

• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto

• 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

• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick and cultural leave)

• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)

• Possible domestic relocation assistance

Where you’ll be working

Located in Central Queensland, approximately 10km north-west of Gladstone, Yarwun alumina refinery commenced operations in 2004.  Processing bauxite from our mines in Weipa and Gove, Yarwun produces more than three million tonnes of smelter grade alumina annually. 

As one of the largest industries in the Gladstone region, Yarwun employs over 700 people and has a large contractor workforce. With a focus on safely improving our process every day, the team at Yarwun challenge themselves to use existing and emerging technology to support our 24-hour operation.  

Yarwun is a proud member of the Gladstone community, and along with Boyne Smelters Limited and Queensland Alumina Limited, support community investments that improve the liveability of the Gladstone region through the Here for Gladstone community fund.  

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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 LGBTQ+ 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.