Jobs at Rio Tinto

Provides enterprise-wide employee and labor relations advisory support across collective bargaining, workforce disputes, grievances, investigations, arbitration, compliance, and collective agreement implementation. Advises senior leaders, legal teams, HR teams, unions, and operational stakeholders; assesses workforce and legal risks; supports industrial action and continuity planning; and contributes to employee relations policies and governance. The role is based in Montreal and requires fluency in French and English.

Leads underground technical teams responsible for mining engineering, geoscience, surveying, mine design, production scheduling, forecasting, technical governance, risk management, and production reporting. Partners with operational leaders and suppliers to deliver safe, efficient mine plans, manage technical standards, strengthen team capability, and support continuous improvement. The role requires substantial underground mining experience, operational leadership, commercial judgment, and strong stakeholder management.

Lead regional change management for an SAP S/4HANA transformation. Develop change plans, impact assessments, training, communications, stakeholder engagement, readiness validation, and adoption activities. Partner with business leaders, readiness teams, and program stakeholders to prepare employees for new processes and ways of working. Monitor feedback, training effectiveness, risks, and adoption during deployment, go-live, and hyper-care periods.

Lead end-to-end logistics operations for the Rincon Project, including national and international transportation, warehousing, distribution, materials management, contractor oversight, and supply continuity. Ensure legal, safety, and corporate compliance while monitoring logistics performance, managing risks, optimizing costs and service levels, and driving continuous improvement. Lead and develop the logistics team while coordinating transporters, external warehouses, and other logistics providers.

Provides UK HR operations support across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, workforce transactions, Right to Work checks, employee data maintenance, and HR compliance. Serves as a first point of contact for employee and manager enquiries, triaging and escalating issues appropriately. The role also supports reporting, data quality, payroll collaboration, process improvement, standardisation, and automation within a global HR services team.

Lead Workday data validation, migration testing, reconciliation, integration testing, and defect resolution for Rio Tinto’s transition to SAP S/4HANA. Develop test scenarios, investigate root causes, validate payroll and time outcomes, guide testing team members, and support cutover, knowledge transfer, and hypercare readiness.

Support Rio Tinto’s Modern ERP transition by managing Workday employee master data, preparing data-driven test scenarios, validating payroll and time data, reconciling Workday and SAP S/4HANA integrations, investigating defects, improving data controls, documenting procedures, and supporting training, cutover, go-live readiness, and hypercare activities.

Leads GIS strategy, geospatial data management, mapping, database administration, and spatial analysis for the Simandou mining project. Oversees geodatabases, thematic environmental and social maps, data governance, consultants, GIS developers, and a professional team. Provides technical support and training on ArcGIS and mobile data collection tools, ensures data quality and legal compliance, and collaborates with project, engineering, HSE, ESG, regulatory, and community stakeholders.

Provides senior ethics and compliance advice across Australian operations, advising leaders on regulatory and integrity risks, monitoring control effectiveness, supporting investigations, developing guidance and training, and overseeing remediation. The role builds first-line compliance capability, maintains second-line independence, and collaborates with legal, risk, audit, people, commercial, and operational teams. Brisbane-based, it requires regular travel to relevant operations and offices.

Leads Rio Tinto’s Australian Ethics and Compliance function, advising senior leaders on integrity and regulatory risks. Oversees risk assessments, control assurance, monitoring, investigations, remediation, governance, and specialist areas including anti-bribery, sanctions, privacy, fraud, third-party risk, and speak-up matters. Manages a senior team, provides constructive second-line challenge, and supports risk-based implementation across Australian operations with occasional international travel.

Partners with senior leaders to translate people strategy into workforce plans and deliver talent, performance, engagement, employee relations, and organizational change initiatives. Leads workforce planning, performance and pay reviews, talent calibration, employee and labor relations matters, and data-driven employee experience improvements. Collaborates with specialist People teams, coaches leaders, and supports restructures across complex, large-scale, multi-geography environments.

Lead financial modeling, valuation, scenario analysis, and commercial evaluations for Rio Tinto’s Resolution Copper Project. Assess risks, value drivers, development pathways, and value-enhancement opportunities while challenging financial, tax, funding, and commercial assumptions. Coordinate cross-functional business evaluations and prepare investment submissions, governance materials, and recommendations for Product Group, Investment Committee, and Board-level decisions.

Leads engineering, governance, technical assurance, and asset management teams for mining, rail, port, and infrastructure assets. Oversees asset lifecycle performance, engineering standards, management of change, configuration control, risk assessment, capital planning, asset information governance, audit readiness, and continuous improvement. Manages multidisciplinary teams, develops technical capability, supports compliance and operational reliability, and presents recommendations to executive stakeholders.

Leads integrated planning across mining, rail, port, infrastructure, and maintenance operations in Guinea. Coordinates weekly and maintenance plans, monitors performance against budgets, identifies capacity constraints and improvement opportunities, and supports data-driven operational decisions. The role requires cross-functional leadership, stakeholder management, financial and commercial awareness, strong safety and compliance focus, and at least 10 years of experience in construction, infrastructure, or mining.

Partners with commercial leaders on workforce planning, employee relations, talent and performance processes, organizational change, compensation and engagement. Advises on labor relations, analyzes workforce data, coordinates with specialist People teams, supports restructures and transformation, and coaches leaders to improve team effectiveness and employee experience.

Develops and maintains integrated shutdown schedules for fixed plant assets, coordinating work scopes, labor, equipment, materials, contractors, and cross-functional stakeholders. Tracks critical paths, risks, progress, and performance against plan while supporting readiness reviews, budgeting, and resource forecasting. Uses Project and SAP to optimize major and minor shutdown events, improve plant availability, and drive continuous improvement in safety, efficiency, duration, and cost.

Provides administrative and business support to Weipa operations teams, including correspondence, reports, presentations, travel coordination, records management, order processing, inventory, event planning, customer service, and compliance with security procedures. The role requires managing competing priorities, maintaining confidentiality, and using Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Teams, and SAP applications.

Leads enterprise executive talent, succession planning, performance, assessment, coaching, mentoring, and leadership development initiatives. Partners with senior leaders and HR stakeholders to strengthen leadership readiness, succession depth, and organizational capability. Oversees executive talent programs, external providers, governance, talent reviews, and assessment processes while translating sensitive talent insights into practical recommendations. Requires deep experience in executive talent or organizational development and fluency in French and English.

The Logistics Analyst develops cost-effective transportation and supply plans, coordinates road, rail, maritime, and containerized freight, manages transportation-system workflows, resolves delivery issues, supports negotiations, and produces logistics dashboards and performance indicators. The role collaborates with operations, commercial, procurement, suppliers, carriers, warehouses, customs brokers, and customers to optimize material flows, service levels, working capital, and transport costs.

Summer internship or employment opportunities for college students enrolled in a Metallurgical Engineering Technology program at Rio Tinto’s Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean aluminum facilities and research center. Candidates must prioritize workplace safety, hold a secondary school diploma or recognized equivalent, be enrolled in the specified program, and possess a valid Class 5 driver’s license.