Job Description

Principal Adviser Environment | Brisbane, QLD

• Influence environmental strategy and governance across Rio Tinto's Pacific Operations.
• Lead initiatives that strengthen environmental performance and protect our licence to operate.
• Work with senior leaders, site teams and technical experts to drive sustainable business outcomes.
• Brisbane head office role location

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs

We are looking for a Principal Adviser Environment to provide strategic leadership and expert environmental advice across Pacific Operations. In this highly influential role, you will lead governance and assurance programs, support environmental law reform readiness, and partner with sites and central functions to improve environmental risk management and performance.

You will play a key role in shaping environmental strategy, influencing decision-making, and ensuring Rio Tinto continues to deliver responsible environmental outcomes across its operations.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading programs of work to prepare Pacific Operations for evolving environmental legislation and regulatory requirements.
• Driving governance and assurance initiatives that strengthen environmental performance and risk management.
• Providing expert environmental advice to operational and project teams to assess, manage and minimise environmental risks and impacts.
• Influencing and partnering with key stakeholders to develop effective risk mitigation strategies.
• Providing strategic analysis and recommendations to senior leaders on environmental priorities and emerging risks.
• Coaching, mentoring and developing capability within environmental teams.

What you'll bring

• Significant experience in environmental management, governance, risk management or environmental strategy.
• A strategic mindset with a focus on governance, risk and long-term environmental outcomes, suited to someone who thrives on shaping direction rather than purely technical delivery
• Deep technical expertise with the demonstrated ability to influence outcomes across a complex organisation.
• Strong understanding of environmental legislation, approvals and compliance frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience engaging and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Ability to lead initiatives, manage competing priorities and deliver strategic outcomes.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and relationship building skills.
• Project governance experience, with the ability to lead complex programs of work and drive outcomes through influence and collaboration.
• Ideally degree qualified – Environment related field

What we offer

• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience.
• Annual incentive program.
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance.
• Ongoing professional development and leadership opportunities.
• Flexible and supportive work environment.
• A culture that values inclusion, wellbeing, courage and care.

Where you will be working

You will join Rio Tinto's Pacific Operations Environment team, partnering with operational sites, project teams and corporate functions to improve environmental performance and manage strategic environmental risks.

Working across a broad stakeholder network, you will help shape environmental outcomes that support sustainable operations and strengthen Rio Tinto's licence to operate for generations to come.

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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.