• Job Description

  Req#: req86345

  Senior Human Resources Business Partner – Rio Tinto Kennecott

  • Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
  • Join a leading global company
  • Role based out of beautiful Salt Lake Valley, UT

  About the role

  Finding Better Ways to Provide the Materials the World Needs

  We are looking for a passionate, curious and experienced Senior HRBP to join us as a strategic partner and trusted advisor, helping to identify and propel lasting people and operational outcomes within our Copper Americas People function.

  Reporting to the General Manager, Human Resources the Senior HRBP is a critical member of the Copper organization. This role leads a team of HRBPs across the Kennecott value chain and provides an exciting opportunity to work across challenging and dynamic environments with passionate and invested leaders and employees. Successful applicants will need to share how they go about building networks, times they've had to dive into complex problems to surface new solutions and what they've learned along the way. We are looking for someone with leadership experience, a curious and collaborative approach who has demonstrated the ability to translate business strategy, objectives and context into the people strategy and organizational effectiveness. Additional accountabilities include:

  • Providing credible advice and coaching on people and culture initiatives, including constructively challenging leaders on their individual and collective effectiveness
  • Influencing senior leaders to define, build, and strengthen employee inclusion & engagement
  • Collaborating with the Areas of Expertise, People Experience teams, and other internal service providers to inform the design of organizational effectiveness strategies
  • Seeking out diverse viewpoints when problem-solving, ensuring strong stakeholder engagement and an ability to gain support for solutions that challenge the status-quo
  • Leading or participating in Group and Functional programs and / or projects across Everyday Respect, culture, I&D, talent, engagement and leadership development
  • Delivering large people-centric projects requiring skills in project management, communication, stakeholder assessment/engagement, and data analysis, often without a blueprint
  • Designing labor productivity initiatives using data driven insights
  • Building capability for today and the future to ensure we have a strong talent pipeline to deliver on our growth strategy

  What you’ll bring

  • Minimum of a BS in Business Management, Human Resources, Organizational Development or have equivalent combination of education and experience; experience working and living internationally a plus
  • Progressive role accountabilities spanning +15 years in business partnering roles in large, matrixed global organizations
  • Substantial business acumen and a passion for getting embedded in the business in which you operate
  • Ability to deliver impactful presentations and provide strong facilitation across a broad range of people and leadership topics to both small and large teams
  • Experience with a variety of coaching methodologies, building high-performing teams, transformation/restructuring and organizational development strategies/interventions
  • Confidence to partner with SMEs in Remuneration, Payroll, Benefits, Recruitment and International Mobility
  • Experience working in a fast-moving environment, requiring agility and an ability to quickly find solutions to problems without precedent
  • Flexibility to work across time zones and partner with team members around the world; ability and interest to travel internationally to see field programs in progress

  What we Offer

  We are committed to providing our employees with a generous benefits package. Be recognized for your contribution, your thinking, your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress, we provide:

  • A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
  • Advantageous salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees
  • Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits.
  • Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401k matching program
  • Generous Rio Tinto employee share program, which allows you to purchase Rio Tinto Company shares.
  • Comprehensive leave policies which cover all moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.
  • A favorable child-caregiver leave program (Up to 100% salary top-up)
  • Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing
  • Ongoing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for you and your family; to help in addressing educational opportunities, addiction treatment, depression, stress, domestic issues, financial management, and legal concerns.
  • Our team and industry experts are here to support and work with you to explore your learning potential and career goals

  Where you will be working

  Our Kennecott mine is a world-class, fully integrated copper mining operation, including a concentrator, smelter and refinery, located just outside Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. We produce copper, precious metals including gold and silver, molybdenum and sulfuric acid. Kennecott has been mining and processing minerals from the rich ore body of the Bingham Canyon Mine since 1903 and is one of the top producing mines in the world, comprising approximately 11 percent of U.S. annual copper production.

  Every Voice Matters

  At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, 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.

  Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

  Rio Tinto participates in E-Verify to confirm work authorization. Please visit http://www.uscis.gov/ for more information.

• About the company

  Rio Tinto Group is an Anglo-Australian multinational and the world's second largest metals and mining corporation, behind BHP, producing iron ore, copper, diamonds, gold and uranium.

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