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• 2022 – PRESENTCHIEF ADVISOR NATURE SOLUTIONSJohannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
• 2018 – 2022HEAD OF ENVIRONMENT, GLOBAL HSESMontreal, Quebec, Canada
• 2016 – 2018PRINCIPAL ADVISOR: ENVIRONMENTJohannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
• 2013 – 2016SUPERINTENDENT: ECOLOGY AND REHABILITATIONRichards Bay Minerals, KZN, South Africa
• 2012 – 2013ECOLOGISTRichards Bay Minerals, KZN, South Africa
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As the Manager Health & Safety for Rio Tinto Iron Ore (RTIO), you will lead the delivery of our Health and Safety Performance Plan, providing strategic oversight and technical expertise across the function. This pivotol role is responsible for guiding a team of health and safety professionals, ensuring best practice is embedded and aligned with critical risk management and compliance expectations.
Working closely with HSEC and operational leaders, you’ll translate strategy into action—driving safety performance, simplifying standards, and fostering a strong safety culture across all sites. This is a high-impact role focused on capability development, continuous improvement, and supporting RTIO’s goal to be the Best Operator.
Reporting to General Manager HSEC you will:

Lead the development and implementation of Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s Health and Safety Performance Plan, providing strategic guidance across diverse teams.

• Manage and support a multidisciplinary team of health and safety professionals, encouraging continuous learning, collaboration, and high performance.
• Partner with HSEC and operational leaders to strengthen safety culture and maturity through targeted programs such as the Safety Maturity Model.

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminum, 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 and meet opportunities.
At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities, and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable being 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 who we are.
Where can Rio Tinto take you?
You’re passionate and ambitious with tremendous career aspirations. The breadth and growth of our organisation empowers you to define your ideal career path.