Risk and Compliance Specialist

Risk and Compliance Specialist

• Role supporting risk management and assurance 

• Permanent opportunity that offers a wide range of additional benefits

• Brisbane based, Monday-Friday role with occasional site travel required

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

The Ranger Rehabilitation Project would like to engage a Risk and Compliance Specialist who is a highly motivated Specialist to lead our Risk and Compliance program. The successful candidate will have a strong systems and process mindset with excellent communication skills and the ability to interpret project context into insights.

Reporting to the HSE Manager, the remit of this role includes, but is not limited to:

• Schedule and coordinate regular reviews of risk and compliance information with leaders (risk, control and obligation owners)

• Assist leaders to incorporate risk, obligations and actions into annual and multi-year plans

• Provide timely risk and compliance reporting (including control effectiveness; obligations and action status) to local leadership team and relevant management forums

• Assist Risk Business Partners to develop risk–informed assurance plans and activities

• Support the Project to ensure all key roles are adequately trained and competent

• Maintain the supporting risk and compliance systems

• Continues to update registers and provide leaders with a summary of the change and potential implications when approvals and/or legislation changes. Works in partnership and supported by the Legal team.

• Assists in the development of policies, procedures, and standards.

• Fulfills pertinent miscellaneous duties/functions as assigned.

What you’ll bring

To be successful in this role you will have:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team (standard for all job adverts).

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to facilitate workshops.

• A continuous learning mindset.

• Practical stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence, build and maintain collaborative relationships across leadership and peer levels.

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 safety-focused and inclusive working environment 

• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) 

• Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs 

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

• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters 

• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

• Possible domestic relocation assistance on offer

• Indigenous Advisors are always there for our Indigenous employees and available to support through any aspect of your employment

• Indigenous leadership programmes across professional and operational roles to ensure that we are developing Indigenous Leaders.

• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options

Who we are

Energy Resources of Australia Ltd (ERA) is a publicly listed company with Rio Tinto as its major shareholder. ERA, established in 1979, previously mined and produced uranium oxide from its Ranger mine in the beautiful and rugged Alligator Rivers area of the Northern Territory. The Ranger mine is located on Aboriginal land, surrounded by, but currently separate from, Kakadu National Park.

ERA’s production operations on the Ranger Project Area ceased in January 2021, with the major focus now shifting to the comprehensive world-class rehabilitation of the Ranger mine that will eventually allow it to be incorporated back into the Kakadu National Park should the Traditional Owners and the Commonwealth Government wish.

The Ranger Rehabilitation Project is the largest project of its kind in Australia and possibly the world. It is unique in that it is rehabilitating land in one of the world’s most culturally and environmentally sensitive locations, surrounded by the World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park on the land of the Mirarr Traditional Owners, located three hours southeast of Darwin.

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.

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.

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.