Human Resource Business Partner

• Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion
• Work for one of the top 100 Employers in Canada. More info here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6999447814468497408
• Permanent, full-time role, based in Kitimat, BC

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Human Resource Business Partner (HRBP) to engage the site operational leaders supporting them to achieve their people and business priorities in addition to leading several HR projects.

This role is a great opportunity for someone to coach and influence site leaders and the local HR team and have a genuine impact on the direction of the business. The Human Resources Business Partner will support leadership to define, build, and maintain employee engagement through data, conversations, and observations to determine the required solutions. Provide guidance in the areas of talent attraction and retention, succession management, leadership development, organizational development, diversity, equity & inclusion, performance management, training, and compensation & benefits.

Reporting to the Director - HRBP, you will be:

• People Foundations Project – project management & team coordination to establish baseline working practices on the following topics:

1) Employee Value Proposition: Researching best practice, designing business cases and writing policies to help attract & retain employees;

2) Recruitment: Improving current practices to find creative solutions to move the best caliber of candidates quickly through the process;

3) Workforce management: establishing robust practices around internal employee movements, leave scheduling, etc for our ~800 union employees; and

4) Training: supporting the Learning & Development team to establish strong training framework across our operator & maintainer workforce

• Lead engagement initiatives – People Survey, Local Happy-or-Not campaigns, etc
• Strategically manage the workforce plan & labor budgets
• Provides coaching and advice to leadership teams in a way that tests conventional thinking
• Acts as an escalation point to resolve and complex issues

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team;
• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field (HR, Psychology, or business);
• 10 - 15 years of experience in an generalist/advisory position in human resources;
• Proven ability to engage, influence and collaborate with senior leadership teams with a good application of contemporary HR systems, processes and practices;
• Ability to coach and influence senior leaders in a way that challenges the status quo;
• All combinations of education and experience will be considered.

What we offer

Be recognized 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
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical programs, pension and savings plans
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
• Exclusive employee discounts
• Domestic relocation assistance

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities, and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Where you’ll be working

Rio Tinto’s BC Works is a part of the Atlantic Operations of the Aluminium product group and has been operating in British Columbia for over 65 years. With industry leading new technology and four generations of employee expertise, as well as our hydropower facility at Kemano and the Nechako Reservoir, the Kitimat smelter is one of the world’s most competitive aluminium smelters, producing aluminium with one of the lowest carbon footprints in the industry.

Rio Tinto is proud to operate in BC alongside our 1,200 employees, partners, community stakeholders and First Nations, and we look forward to the next 60 years.

To learn more about our Aluminium Operations, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=25&v=CTp1jkRKeBI

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 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.

Applications close: April 3rd 2023

(Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)