What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Advisor, Health & Hygiene position at Rio Tinto?
- Lead and shape the Industrial Hygiene strategy across a large-scale operation
- Influence decision-making and workforce wellbeing through data-driven insights
- Work collaboratively with senior leaders to strengthen a proactive health culture
- Permanent role based in Salt Lake City, Utah
We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.
About The Role
We are looking for a Senior Advisor, Health & Hygiene to lead and enhance health programs and industrial hygiene strategies across Kennecott operations. In this role, you will play a key part in protecting workforce wellbeing, ensuring compliance, and supporting operational performance through proactive risk management and strong collaboration.
This is a great opportunity for a health and hygiene specialist to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory standards while driving strategic and tactical initiatives to enhance employee health and wellbeing.
Reporting to the Manager HSE Risk & Governance and working in a collaborative community, a challenging and exciting environment, a diverse team within the HSE System, Assurance & Information department, you will be
- Leading the development and execution of Industrial Hygiene and health strategies across operations
- Identifying, assessing, and mitigating health risks and exposures across the workforce
- Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and Rio Tinto HSE standards
- Partnering with operations and HSE teams to provide insights that support decisions and improve performance
- Delivering and continuously improving health and hygiene programs
- Promoting mental and physical health initiatives to support workforce wellbeing
- Monitoring, analyzing, and communicating health performance trends and improvement opportunities
- Fostering a proactive safety culture through collaboration and clear expectations
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
- Bachelor’s degree in health or hygiene or equivalent
- Experience in industrial hygiene or HSE within industrial, mining, or construction environments
- Proven ability to assess risks and implement effective mitigation strategies
- Experience contributing to or leading health or hygiene programs
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Asset CIH certification (or equivalent) or progress toward certification
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 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.
Our Kennecott mine is a world-class, fully integrated copper mining operation, including a concentrator, smelter, and refinery, located just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. We produce copper, precious metals including gold and silver, molybdenum, and sulfuric acid. Kennecott has been mining and processing minerals from the rich ore body of the Bingham Canyon Mine since 1903 and is one of the top producing mines in the world, comprising approximately 11 percent of U.S. annual copper production.
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.
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