Specialist – Risk and Capital
- Join a workplace where safety is paramount, collaboration is encouraged, and every voice is valued.
- Enjoy an attractive salary package, annual performance bonuses, and a comprehensive range of benefits designed to enhance your wellbeing and lifestyle.
- Experience the balance you need with fly-in fly-out (FIFO) opportunities from Perth.
About the role
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
We are seeking a Specialist – Risk and Capital to join our Operational Excellence team at Greater Tom Price and Marandoo Operations. This role is ideal for a proactive, people-focused professional passionate about supporting operational leaders, contractors, and frontline teams to drive safety, risk management, and capital excellence.
As part of a supportive and high-performing team, you’ll work closely with the Manager Operational Excellence, contributing to both personal and team development goals.
This position follows a 5 days on / 2 days off / 4 days on / 3 days off roster on-site, giving you more time to spend on the things that are important to you.
Reporting to the Manager Operational Excellence, you will:
- Promote a proactive safety culture — actively communicate and model safety-first behaviours to ensure awareness, compliance, and ownership across all operations.
- Drive continuous improvement — identify, evaluate, and implement opportunities using Rio Tinto best practices to enhance operational performance and efficiency.
- Collaborate effectively — work closely with functional teams and stakeholders to achieve shared goals and optimise outcomes.
- Develop team capability — provide coaching, mentoring, and technical guidance to operational teams, fostering growth and performance excellence.
- Lead capital and risk management — oversee risk and capital processes, remove barriers to execution, and ensure alignment with business priorities.
- Support strategic planning — contribute to business planning cycles by delivering analytical insights on risk, capital, and productivity across operations.
- Strengthen risk integration and assurance — embed risk management into core decision-making, maintain risk registers, and coordinate assurance activities to enhance governance.
- Champion governance and change management — oversee capital portfolio governance, Management of Change (MoC) compliance, and build leadership capability in risk and capital management.
What you’ll bring
- A Current Western Australian ‘C’ Class Driver's Licence (Manual)
- A business, finance, engineering or other technical degree is advantageous
- Exceptional communication, stakeholder management skills and ability to work autonomously whilst influencing leaders
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and advanced MS office knowledge
- Previous experience in risk management, sustaining capital, engineering or accounting preferred
- Demonstrates understanding of relevant legislation, Rio Tinto systems, governance frameworks and assurance requirements
If you’re excited by the opportunity but don’t meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply — your passion and potential could make you the perfect fit.
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 permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
- A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive bonus
- 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
- Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave, cultural leave)
- To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them
- Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more.
Where you will be working
Tom Price is located in the central Pilbara, west of Karijini National Park and is our original Pilbara mine, currently employing residential and fly in fly out employees. It is known as one of the most attractive towns in the Pilbara with a high school, two primary schools a hospital and a high standard of recreational facilities.
Ready to experience something unique? Come work with us.
Applications close on 11 November 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date) #gts
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 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.
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Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminum, 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 and meet opportunities.
At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities, and people from different cultural backgrounds.
We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable being 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 who we are.
Take your leadership career to the next level.
Where can Rio Tinto take you?
You’re passionate and ambitious with tremendous career aspirations. The breadth and growth of our organisation empowers you to define your ideal career path.
Take a look at Katie’s career journey
- 2022 - PresentManager Projects - Energy DevelopmentBrisbane, Queensland, Australia
- 2021Superintendent Operations CentreBrisbane, Queensland, Australia
- 2020Development / Drill and Blast SuperintendentPilbara, Western Australia
- 2019Deputy Quarry ManagerPilbara, Western Australia
- 2018Development SupervisorPilbara, Western Australia
- 2017Senior Engineer of Drill, Blast and SurveyPilbara, Western Australia
- 2016Production EngineerPilbara, Western Australia
- 2015Mine scheduler - 2 week plannerPilbara, Western Australia
- 2014Drill and Blast EngineerPilbara, Western Australia
- 2012Graduate Mining EngineerPilbara, Western Australia
Working at Rio Tinto
Help us deliver the materials that make human progress possible.
The plane you’re flying in just landed. You fire up your phone and get your laptop out of the overhead bin. Immediately, you’re in work mode – thousands of miles from your office. Do you ever stop to think about all the materials that make life in the 21st century possible? At Rio Tinto, we discover, develop and deliver the materials that drive human progress. When you work with us, you’ll experience advantages you won’t find anywhere else.
Our application process
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Apply
The first thing you’ll need to do is apply to the role. You can do this with your LinkedIn profile or you can upload your resume. We’ll also ask you to complete a few questions before you submit your application.
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Undergo assessments
Our assessments are designed to help us work out whether you are suitable for the role. We will let you know which ones you’ll need to complete.
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Interview(s)
Our interviews could be in person or online. It’s a great opportunity for us to get to know you a bit better, answer any of your questions and talk about the exciting career opportunity you have applied for.
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Offers and checks
At this stage, we will let you know if you have been successful. If you have been, we’ll need to conduct a couple of checks, such as a background or security check. You may also need to do a medical assessment depending on the role you have applied for.
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Join the Rio Tinto team
Once the checks have been completed, we’ll be in touch to talk with you about your start date and answer any questions you may have before you start with us.