Jobs at Rio Tinto

Acts as a strategic finance partner for business teams and stakeholders. Leads budgeting, forecasting, performance analysis, cost control, financial modeling, and scenario analysis. Reviews financial and operational results, identifies risks and opportunities, and recommends corrective actions. Develops reporting tools and presents insights using SAP, Excel, and Power BI. Supports cost optimization, governance, internal controls, continuous improvement, and strategic decision-making within a complex mining project environment.

Develop and deliver strategic communications for Rio Tinto’s Commercial and broader business functions. The role provides counsel to senior leaders, supports executive communications, manages reputational risk, strengthens leadership profiles, plans events, and oversees narratives, messaging, digital content, and visual communications. Candidates need substantial communications experience in mining, metals, energy, commodities, or other complex industrial environments, with strong writing, stakeholder engagement, influencing, and strategic advisory skills.

Manage end-to-end payroll processing, taxation, statutory compliance, cut-off dates, queries, controls, and payroll provider governance. The role supports continuous process improvement, system changes, stakeholder communication, and regulatory compliance while delivering payroll services for Canada payroll operations.

Manage end-to-end payroll delivery, taxation, statutory compliance, payroll cutoffs, and provider governance. Resolve complex payroll queries, ensure policy and regulatory compliance, coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, and implement continuous process and system improvements. The role requires strong payroll expertise, analytical and communication skills, knowledge of labor laws and HR policies, and experience with payroll systems in a multinational or payroll-service environment.

Manage and improve asset master data quality, integrity, standardization, and governance in SAP/RTBS. Produce asset-management reports and performance indicators, administer technical structures and maintenance configurations, analyze system errors, manage user access, and coordinate corrective actions. Train and support users on transactions and maintenance reporting while collaborating with stakeholders to improve regional processes. The role is based in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean on a five-days-on, two-days-off schedule.

Leads capability, career, talent, leadership, and organisational development strategy for a location. Partners with leaders and employees to identify capability gaps, build career frameworks, deliver learning and leadership programmes, support succession planning, measure development outcomes, and prepare the workforce for future technologies. Owns capability governance, budgets, vendors, workforce insights, employee sentiment, and enterprise-scale development initiatives across multiple geographies and cultures.

The Category Analyst supports MRO procurement through spend and supplier-performance analysis, tender preparation, bid evaluation, commercial negotiations, contract recommendations, savings tracking, and category strategy development. The role develops procurement dashboards and tools, monitors supplier KPIs, prepares presentations, and collaborates with global stakeholders, operations teams, and suppliers. The position is based in Montreal and may involve travel across Canada and the United States.

Partners with senior leaders to provide financial analysis, performance insights, budgeting, forecasting, business-case evaluation, cost governance, and decision support. The role supports transformation initiatives, operating-model changes, financial controls, and long-term value creation in a complex global organization. It requires strong stakeholder influence, financial modeling, performance management, bilingual French-English communication, and a professional finance or accounting designation.

Provides administrative and customer service support within the Northern Operations team. Responsibilities include coordinating events, preparing correspondence and reports, arranging meetings and business travel, tracking expenses, maintaining records and calendars, and managing competing priorities confidentially. The role is an 18-month fixed-term traineeship requiring strong organization, communication, collaboration, time management, and customer service skills, along with a current driver’s licence and LAP Status approval.

Lead integrated planning and scheduling for complex capital projects. Develop, maintain, analyze, and report project schedules; integrate contractor, vendor, cost, and resource schedules; assess critical paths, risks, changes, and forecast impacts; support change control and process improvements; and provide technical guidance to project stakeholders and junior team members.

Two Mechanical Engineers will oversee maintenance and operation of a large-scale mineral processing plant in Canga. Responsibilities include diagnosing equipment and flow issues, implementing preventive and predictive maintenance programs, conducting root-cause investigations and FMEA, advising maintenance personnel, managing contractors, tracking equipment reliability and costs, training staff, and enforcing safety and environmental requirements. Candidates must have mechanical engineering or related qualifications, at least five years of relevant mining-plant experience, SAP knowledge, and strong French and English communication skills.

Support contractor companies in establishing and improving training, competency assessment, and training-record systems. Identify training needs, develop competency matrices, coordinate workforce and equipment mobilization training, support trainer development, improve technical training programs, ensure compliance and quality, and analyze LMS-based training reports, compliance indicators, and performance statistics.

Monitor and support open-pit mining operations by surveying roads and work areas, responding to autonomous haulage faults, identifying hazards, managing pit conditions, supporting production supervisors, assisting operators, conducting inspections, maintaining signage and demarcation, transporting personnel, and promoting safety, training, and continuous improvement.

Provides advanced technical oversight of the ELYSIS aluminum electrolysis process, analyzes critical parameters, leads complex optimization and continuous improvement projects, develops process standards, and supports trials and innovation initiatives. The role mentors technical advisors and technicians, supports major incident response, integrates HSE requirements, collaborates with engineering, maintenance, and operations, and trains teams on chemical, thermal, and electrical process behaviors.

Supports Rio Tinto IOC’s Risk and Governance team by embedding the risk management framework into daily operations. Responsibilities include analyzing operational risks, coordinating risk reviews, maintaining risk data, integrating mitigation actions into business plans, preparing leadership reports, and coaching employees on risk, assurance, and asset management. The role requires experience in risk management, assurance, compliance, asset integrity, or criticality assessment within mining or other safety-critical industrial environments.

Four-month automation internship supporting industrial control systems at Rio Tinto’s Sorel-Tracy plant. Responsibilities include troubleshooting PLCs, HMIs, and automated systems; making supervised PLC and operator-interface modifications; analyzing process data; documenting changes; conducting functional testing; and contributing to continuous-improvement and equipment-modernization projects. The role collaborates with engineers, PCS analysts, and OT specialists to improve plant safety, reliability, and performance.

Entry-level mining engineering graduate role supporting mining team activities on the Simandou iron ore project. Responsibilities emphasize organization, planning, communication, office-tool proficiency, teamwork, and performance in a demanding, safety-focused environment. Candidates must have graduated in Mining Engineering or a related field between 2024 and 2026. English proficiency and a driver’s license are advantageous. The position offers training, career development, benefits, incentives, and employee support programs.

Three-month engineering internship at Johnson Camp Mine supporting process instrumentation documentation and improvement. Responsibilities include cataloging instruments, creating data sheets, compiling O&M and as-built manuals, developing wiring diagrams and setup drawings, documenting equipment, assessing instrument quality and operation, and recommending reuse or improvements. Candidates must have completed at least two years in an engineering discipline and be authorized to work full-time in the United States.

Develops, maintains, and reports integrated project costs, schedules, plans, progress, risks, changes, and forecasts. Partners with project, contractor, planning, cost engineering, and estimating teams to improve project controls and delivery performance. Supports cost and schedule reviews, monthly reporting, contractor schedule integration, cost and resource loading, process compliance, and stakeholder decision-making. Provides technical guidance and contributes to process improvements across complex industrial, mining, or construction projects.

Improve reliability, maintenance strategies, and equipment performance across an industrial smelter operation. Lead defect elimination, root cause analysis, reliability studies, lifecycle cost analysis, and maintenance tactic development. Analyze SAP, process historian, and condition-monitoring data to identify risks and improvement opportunities. Partner with Operations, Maintenance, Projects, and Technical teams to implement asset management practices, track value, and support safe, reliable production.