Principal Advisor, Medical (Health Studies and Reporting)

Principal Advisor, Medical (Health Studies and Reporting)

• Lead clinical governance across owner-run and vendor health services to ensure high-quality, consistent care aligned with global standards.

• Drive digital health transformation by supporting the implementation of occupational medicine, rehab, and return-to-work solutions using health data and strategy.

• Enhance health data quality for reporting, decision-making, and continuous improvement, while contributing to research and thought leadership in occupational health.

• Flexible location: Brisbane, or Perth

About the Role

Finding better ways™ to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Principal Advisor, Medical (Health Studies and Reporting) to lead the implementation of a robust clinical governance framework across both owner-run and vendor health services. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in ensuring the quality and consistency of occupational health service delivery, while contributing to the effective use of health data to drive decision-making and continuous improvement.

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified health professional with strong digital capabilities and a passion for data-driven healthcare innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement and oversee the clinical governance framework in alignment with our health strategy, capability framework, and international best practices to ensure the delivery of high-quality health services.

• Partner with frontline health teams across product groups and functions to improve health service capability and health data entry quality, aligned with our strategic health priorities.

• Support HR, operations, and innovation teams in deploying digital health solutions for occupational medicine, rehabilitation, and return-to-work programs, ensuring alignment with the digital and health strategies.

• Develop and enhance routine and customized health datasets to support accurate measurement, reporting, and continuous improvement of health service effectiveness.

• Conduct research on emerging occupational health issues and contribute to internal insights and external publications, ensuring services remain aligned with global best practices and maintain thought-leadership in the industry.

About You

• A medical qualification in public health and/or occupational medicine

• Demonstrated experience implementing clinical governance and health strategy frameworks

• Strong digital literacy and technical competency, particularly in health data systems and digital health tools

• Proven ability to collaborate across diverse functional teams

• Excellent analytical and communication skills, with a commitment to continuous improvement and evidence-based practice

What we offer

• Be recognized 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

• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions

• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program

• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical programs, pension, and savings plans

• Attractive share ownership plan

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

• Exclusive employee discounts

Applications close 21 July 2025.

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.

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