Specialist OCM

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 Specialist Organisational Change Management to provide OCM expertise across major projects within Pilbara Mines Operational Readiness. You will help safely prepare people and operations for project delivery, commissioning and handover by leading change impact analysis, organisational design, stakeholder engagement, communications and capability development

This role provides expertise and guidance in Organisational Change Management to safely prepare people and operations for project delivery, commissioning and handover by leading change impact analysis, organisational design, stakeholder engagement, communications and capability development activities while mentoring practitioners, influencing stakeholders and driving continuous improvement to achieve sustainable operational outcomes and project value.

This is an opportunity to influence how major projects transition into operations and to help leaders and teams successfully adopt new assets, technologies, systems and ways of working. Your work will directly support safe commissioning, operational handover, workforce readiness and sustainable project value. 

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Superintendent Organisational Change Management, you will work across Operations, Projects and Functional Partners to:

• Develop and implement project OCM plans covering stakeholder identification, change impacts, organisational design, communications, workforce readiness and capability development.
• Complete change impact analyses, evaluate actual impacts and assess the readiness of affected stakeholders.
• Engage and support operational leaders to build understanding of the case for change and enable them to lead their teams through transition.
• Support the application of the RTIO Management of Change process for relevant project changes, ensuring people, organisational and capability impacts are identified and addressed
• Lead stakeholder engagement and deliver clear, targeted change communications to impacted teams.
• Collaborate with Human Resources, Capability Development, Talent Acquisition and operational leaders to support workforce planning, organisational design, training and competency requirements.
• Contribute OCM, workforce and capability activities to the Operational Readiness plan, schedule and budget.
• Identify, assess and manage people and organisational readiness risks, ensuring risks and actions are appropriately recorded, monitored and escalated.
• Assess, schedule and cost capability development activities required for commissioning, handover and operational ramp-up.
• Track and report OCM progress, readiness milestones, capability activities and risks to plan.
• Capture and apply lessons learned to improve OCM practices and Operational Readiness outcomes across projects.
• Mentor and support Operational Readiness practitioners while contributing to consistent OCM methods, tools and practices.

About you

We’re looking for someone whose experience aligns with the key requirements below. You do not need to meet every “helpful for success” item to apply — if you bring relevant experience and are excited by the opportunity, we encourage you to submit an application.

Required for Success

• A strong commitment to safety and to demonstrating care, courage and curiosity in every interaction.
• Experience leading organisational change management within mining, resources, major projects or another operationally complex environment.
• Demonstrated experience in change impact analysis, stakeholder engagement, organisational design, communications and workforce or capability readiness.
• Ability to influence and support operational leaders through complex organisational and operational change.
• Strong facilitation, coaching, communication and relationship-management skills.
• Experience identifying and managing people, organisational readiness and change-related risks.
• Ability to develop practical change plans, work packages, schedules, budgets and progress reporting.
• Sound understanding of project delivery, commissioning, handover and operational readiness environments.
• Ability to work collaboratively across Operations, Projects, Human Resources, Communications, Capability Development and other functional partners.
• Experience planning and managing OCM workstreams, including scope, schedule, resources, budget, risks, milestones and reporting. 

Helpful for Success

• ⁠Experience in facilitation and negotiation. 
• Tertiary qualifications in this field, for example, Project Management and Change Management. 
• ⁠Mining knowledge
• Proficient in Microsoft Suite. 

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. 
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto. 
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program. 
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family. 
• Attractive share ownership plan. 
• Company provided insurance cover.
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options. 
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions. 
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support. 
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, personal & cultural leave).
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more).  

Where you’ll be working

This opportunity is offered on a fly in fly out 5 days on, 2 days off, 4 days on, 3 days off arrangement. 

In the Pilbara region of Western Australia, we own a world-class, integrated network of 18 mines, 4 independent port terminals, a rail network spanning nearly 2,000 kilometres and related infrastructure, all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand. We are one of the world’s leading producers and exporters of iron ore

Applications close on 9th October 2026 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date). 

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 LGBTQ+ 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.