Superintendent Environment

• Lead a team of environmental professionals responsible for delivering environmental compliance risk management and performance outcomes across Rio Tinto Iron Ore operations.

• Influence environmental strategy governance assurance and operational decision-making while developing the capability of a high-performing technical team.

• Join a collaborative leadership team where you can drive meaningful environmental outcomes and contribute to the safe and sustainable delivery of major operational priorities.

Were 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 Superintendent Environment to lead a team of Environment Specialists and Site Environmental Advisors to deliver environmental compliance risk management and performance outcomes across supported assets.

You will provide leadership of environmental delivery through planning prioritisation resource coordination assurance and stakeholder engagement ensuring environmental obligations standards and environmental management system requirements are consistently implemented.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced leader to influence environmental performance support operational decision-making and strengthen environmental capability across a large and complex operational environment.

What youll be doing

Reporting to the Manager Technical Delivery you will:

Lead and develop a team of Environment Specialists and Site Environmental Advisors fostering a strong safety culture technical excellence and high performance.

Provide technical leadership and oversight for Environment Specialists and Site Environmental Advisors strengthening capability consistency and quality of environmental delivery.

Balance environmental priorities and allocate resources across multiple supported assets to optimise risk management and delivery outcomes.

Provide coaching mentoring and capability development to strengthen environmental risk compliance and governance expertise across the team.

Drive environmental compliance risk management and performance outcomes across supported assets through effective planning prioritisation and resource management.

Act as the primary environmental interface for asset leadership teams supporting operational decision-making and delivery of environmental obligations.

Provide technical oversight of environmental approvals commitments licences compliance requirements and environmental management systems.

Lead environmental incident response investigations corrective actions and learnings to improve environmental performance and prevent recurrence.

Coordinate environmental assurance activities including audits inspections critical control verification and action management ensuring findings are translated into measurable outcomes.

Build effective partnerships with technical operational regulatory and external stakeholders to manage complex environmental issues and improve environmental performance.

About you

Were 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 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.

Extensiveexperience implementing environmental management systems and driving continuous improvement initiatives.

Proven ability to prioritise work manage resources and deliver outcomes across multiple workstreams and stakeholders.

Strong stakeholder engagement influencing and communication skills with the ability to support operational decision-making and manage complex environmental issues.

Helpful for Success

Tertiary qualification in Environmental Science Environmental Management Environmental Engineering Natural Resource Management or a related discipline or equivalent practical experience.

Extensiveexperience managing environmental approvals licences obligations and regulatory requirements within mining resources or other heavy industry sectors.

Experience working with environmental assurance frameworks audits inspections and critical control verification processes.

Experience engaging with regulators Traditional Owners communities and other external stakeholders to deliver integrated environmental outcomes.

Demonstrated success leading organisational change capability development and performance improvement initiatives.

Be recognised for your contribution your thinking and your hard work and go home knowing youve 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 tofamily-friendly health and medical wellbeingsupport

Leave for all of lifes reasons (vacation/annual paid parental personal & cultural leave)

Exclusive employee discounts (banking accommodation cars retail and more)

Possible domestic relocation assistance

Where youll be working

Our modern office located in Central Park tower in Perth provide an inspiring environment forcollaborationand professional growth. Youll be able to enjoy a range of benefits includingaccess to a modern gym wellness programs and convenient amenities that support a healthy work-life balance. Situated in the heart ofPerth weare close to public transport and several parking options.

Applications for this role will close Monday 28th September 2026.

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 cant do it on our own so were 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.