Principal Advisor Operational Safety

Principal Advisor: Operational Safety Rio Tinto Services Inc. (South Jordan Utah):

Implement and develop organizational safety programs safety standards and procedures. Conduct and support assurance activities across Rio Tinto to Rio Tinto Operational Safety Standards. Lead and facilitate Incident Investigations. Develop and implement specialized training related to safety. Facilitation or delivery of training for Safety related initiatives. Onsite deployment of gapanalysis assessments and delivery of action plans. Support safety cultural assessments and diagnostics. Risk assessment and risk register development and review. Prepare data analysis and insights for assets product groups and senior leaders.

Telecommuting permitted up to 1 day per week.

Full time employment Monday Friday 40 hours per week.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelors degree in safety Human Factors Engineering or a related field and 10 years of related work experience. Employer will accept an additional 2 years of related experience in lieu of a Bachelors degree.

Must have 10 years of experience in Business Conformance Auditing.

Must have 5 years of experience in the following:

• Investigating accidents to identify causes or to establish future prevention processes utilizing Essential Factors Investigation Analysis methodology;
• Inspecting or evaluating workplace environments equipment or practices to ensure compliance with safety standards and government regulations by means of Safety Diagnostic Facilitation;
• Critical Risk Management Development and Implementation;
• Management of risk with potential fatal consequence outcomes;
• Translating business requirements into practical applications in an operational environment;
• Recommending measures to help protect workers from potentially hazardous work methods processes or materials;
• Health safety and environment processes including defining challenges associated with the application of processes and recommending improvements;
• Providing coaching and support on health and safety matters; and
• Mining or processing environment to have a sufficient knowledge of inherent operational risks.

International travel required up to 20; Domestic travel required up to 80.

Telecommuting permitted up to 1 day per week.

Any suitable combination of education training or experience is acceptable.

TO APPLY: Interested applicants must apply through & search for requisition number REQ# R20640. Should you have any difficulty in applying for this position through our website please contact for assistance in the application process.

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 cant do it on our own so were focused on creating partnerships to solve problems create winwin situations and meet opportunities.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples women the LGBTQ community mature workers people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V
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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.