Rio Tinto Hiring for Employee Relations Manager Americas Job at Salt Lake City, UT Full Time

Employee Relations Manager Americas

• Key role in a diverse and global organization
• Support the HR community across the RTK operations
• Have a genuine impact on the direction of the business
• Based anywhere in the US (flexible location)

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for an Employee Relations Manager who will manage the employee relations function to ensure that employee issues are handled in a fair, respectful and equitable manner according to relevant legislation and internal policies and procedures across our Americas region. The role can be based out of any state in the US.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the General Manager- Human Resources- Americas and working in a challenging and exciting environment, a diverse team within Human Resources, you will be:

• Develop and maintain an effective Employee Relations strategy that will support the interests and direction of the product groups across Copper and Minerals
• Advise and assist leaders and HR colleagues on a range of employee relations issues
• Develop strong partnerships with labor organizations and other external stakeholders
• Liaise with Rio Tinto contacts to provide input and feedback on employee relations initiatives and programs to ensure alignment.
• Work with senior business operational leaders to build employee relations capability across the business.
• Provide support to operational leaders at all levels in understanding the strategy and how to work within our employee relations framework.
• Contribute to the establishment of collective agreements favorable to the company. May act as a spoke person during the collective agreement negotiation.
• Partner with the employee relations area of expertise to deliver strategically aligned employee relations solutions and systems to business.

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• 10+ years experiences in a Legal/Industrial Relations function working for a large multinational company, preferably Mining, Construction, Resources or Heavy Industry
• University Degree in Legal or Industrial Relations
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong leadership and influencing skills and capabilities
• Ability to deal with all levels of the organization
• Strong values with a focus on teamwork and integrity
• 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
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees
• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan
• Wellbeing benefits
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

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

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.

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.

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.