Superintendent Environment

Rio Tinto
Perth
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Environmental & SustainabilitySkills: ["Leadership","Stakeholder engagement","Influencing","Communication","Prioritisation"]

Lead a team of Environment Specialists and Site Environmental Advisors to deliver environmental compliance, risk management, and performance outcomes across supported Rio Tinto Iron Ore assets. Drive environmental strategy, governance, assurance activities, and stakeholder engagement while ensuring environmental management system requirements are implemented consistently. Provide coaching and technical oversight, manage approvals and commitments, and lead incident response, investigations, and corrective actions to improve outcomes and prevent recurrence.

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Rio Tinto
Rio Tinto
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Superintendent Environment

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Job Summary

Lead a team of Environment Specialists and Site Environmental Advisors to deliver environmental compliance, risk management, and performance outcomes across supported Rio Tinto Iron Ore assets. Drive environmental strategy, governance, assurance activities, and stakeholder engagement while ensuring environmental management system requirements are implemented consistently. Provide coaching and technical oversight, manage approvals and commitments, and lead incident response, investigations, and corrective actions to improve outcomes and prevent recurrence.
Location: Perth
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time · Permanent
Job Function: Environmental & Sustainability
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead and develop a team of Environment Specialists and Site Environmental Advisors, fostering safety culture and high performance.
  • •Provide technical leadership and oversight to strengthen capability, consistency, and quality of environmental delivery.
  • •Coordinate environmental priorities and allocate resources across multiple supported assets to optimise risk management and outcomes.
  • •Act as the primary environmental interface for asset leadership teams to support operational decision-making and delivery of obligations.
  • •Lead environmental incident response, investigations, corrective actions, and assurance activities (audits, inspections, critical control verification) to drive measurable improvements.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsurancePaid LeaveParental LeaveLearning BudgetEquity

Key Requirements

  • •Commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
  • •Demonstrated leadership experience within environmental, technical or operational teams in a complex industrial environment.
  • •Strong knowledge of environmental compliance, environmental risk management, governance and assurance processes.
  • •Extensive experience implementing environmental management systems and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
  • •Ability to prioritise work, manage resources and deliver outcomes across multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
Experience:MiningHeavy industryIndustrial operations
Education:
Skills:LeadershipStakeholder engagementInfluencingCommunicationPrioritisation
Tech Stack:Environmental management systemsEnvironmental assuranceAuditsInspectionsCritical control verification

Company Brief

Rio Tinto
Global mining and metals company that explores, mines, processes, and markets mineral resources including iron ore, aluminum, copper, and lithium. Supplies raw materials to industries worldwide across energy, infrastructure, transportation, and manufacturing.
Industry: Mining & Metals
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1873
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