Environmental Advisor – Boyne Smelter (BSL)
- Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
- Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
- Gladstone base – relocation available
About the role
All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.
We are looking for an Environmental Advisor to join the BSL Environmental Team. Working alongside other enthusiastic professionals the primary focus of the role is to further enhance the environmental culture at BSL by being an environmental change agent.
Specific focus areas include air and water management, land use stewardship, waste elimination and HSEQ Management Systems. Emphasis is placed on statutory compliance, reducing liabilities/impacts, maintaining BSL’s reputation, continuous improvement and cost effectiveness.
What you will bring
The successful candidate will be tertiary qualified in Environmental Engineering or a related field and have a minimum of 3 years’ experience in an industrial environment. You will be a highly motivated individual with excellent attention to detail and strong communication skills. Together with a sound knowledge of government authorities and regulations, you will also have experience in championing environmental improvement.
To be considered for this role it is essential that you can:
- Engage and work with people and function effectively as part of a team
- Demonstrate improvements in HSE
- Communicate effectively with verbal and written skills
- Implement projects and tasks independently in a timely manner
- Form strong, respected relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Self-start and have a high level of initiative with a ‘hands on’ approach
The following would be advantageous to the position
- Previous experience in ground water and/or air management
- Experience with continuous improvement methodologies such as Lean or Six Sigma
What we offer
- 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 & salary packaging options
- Career development & 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 leave)
- Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
- Possible domestic relocation assistance
Where you will be working
Boyne Smelters Limited is Australia’s second largest aluminium smelter with a 1,000-person strong workforce. Located approximately 20km south east 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.
BSL is committed to protecting the environment and ensuring safe work practices where people feel safe at work and care for each other.
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.
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.