Principal Advisor, Business Excellence

Principal Advisor, Business Excellence

• Drive strategic business improvement initiatives and thrive in a dynamic environment
• Excellent opportunity to contribute to our mission of continuous enhancement
• Permanent role based in Salt Lake City, USA

About the role

As the Principal Advisor, Business Excellence, you will take charge of overseeing and guiding business improvement projects at Kennecott, ensuring they align with our improvement strategy while effectively managing any necessary changes that arise. You’ll also play a pivotal role in coaching both change agents and leaders, supporting them in their efforts to enhance business practices. Your expertise will be crucial in providing technical support and guidance to project stakeholders, drawing upon lessons learned to drive success.  Additionally, you'll be responsible for enforcing disciplined governance and maintaining quality assurance standards throughout improvement projects.

This role is a great opportunity to drive and maintain discipline in the operation’s management of cash, improve performance, and deliver business improvement initiatives in conjunction with the Kennecott priorities. In addition, the role entails high levels of engagement with key internal stakeholders. Reporting to the Manager, Business Excellence, you will:

• Identify the business’ full potential and improvement opportunities
• Manage change (e.g. cultural shift, strategic change or on-going improvements) to ensure effectiveness and efficiency within the business
• Develop problem solving capabilities
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with leaders and employees to support the adoption of productivity improvement principals, project management, and a culture of continuous improvement
• Manage Strategic Initiative Office’s workstreams, engaging stakeholders at the assets to optimize cost and improve productivity
• Leverage group resources and implement Lean tools across site. Provide technical support to leaders and employees on continuous improvement approaches, including problem solving deployment and facilitation, in addition to leading specific business improvement projects.

What You'll Bring

• Specialist Expertise: Capable of performing statistical analysis to resolve complex problems and offer new perspectives using existing solutions.
• Leadership Skills: Work in partnership with stakeholders and implement projects through influential leadership
• Change Management Proficiency: Skilled in coaching change agents and leaders and managing change effectively throughout improvement initiatives.
• Experienced Business Improvement Professional: Demonstrated experience in project management and/or business or process improvement and/or transformation
• College degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Project Management, Organizational Development, or other relevant disciplines

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.
• Competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with an annual incentive bonus.
• Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits. 
• Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401k matching program.
• Attractive share ownership plan.
• Comprehensive leave policies which cover all the moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.
• A generous parental leave policy, which ensures you’re able to spend quality time with your new family.
• Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing.
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), which provides confidential counselling or expert guidance for you and your family to help get through life’s challenges

Where you’ll be working
Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and metals company. Our focus is on finding, mining and processing the Earth's mineral resources in order to maximize value for our shareholders. Everything we do is done with the future firmly in mind, so our employees are rewarded with opportunity, an open and diverse culture and a responsible working environment in which they can go further.  Our team in Business Excellence is dedicated to enhancing productivity and reducing cost through effective use of business improvement tools and robust change management practices.

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

Rio Tinto is committed to equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel safe, respected and valued. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome but are essential to our success. We treat all our people fairly and with dignity.

Rio Tinto participates in E- Verify to confirm work authorization. Please visit http://www.ucis.gov/ for more information.

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