Officer Environmental Monitoring

Riotinto; Western Australia; On-site; AUD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global mining firm seeks an enthusiastic Environmental Monitoring Officer for its Dampier site in Australia. This role entails ensuring compliance with environmental obligations while fostering a culture of safety. The position offers a permanent contract with a competitive salary, housing support, and relocation assistance. Candidates should have a formal qualification in Environmental sciences and a commitment to safety. Enjoy coastal living in Karratha, with a 9-day work fortnight allowing for a balanced lifestyle.

Benefits

Relocation assistance

Annual bonuses

Comprehensive medical benefits

Career development support

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Formal qualification or certification in the Environmental or Marine sciences.
• Commitment to safety for yourself and your team.
• Understanding of environmental regulations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a compliance monitoring schedule.
• Ensure data is maintained in management systems.
• Calibrate environmental fieldwork equipment.
• Report monthly metrics and non-conformances.
• Support Contractor Management in environmental monitoring.

Skills

Commitment to safety

Understanding of environmental legislation

Troubleshooting in-field problems

Experience with monitoring programs

Effective communication skills

Education

Formal qualification in Environmental or Marine sciences

Tools

Environmental fieldwork equipment

Job description

Officer Environmental Monitoring – Dampier

We encourage women and Indigenous Peoples to apply, as we advance our business to more accurately reflect the world around us.

• 9-day fortnight – operating in Dampier, living in Karratha, Dampier offers a rare blend of coastal living and career opportunities.
• Permanent role with competitive salary, annual bonuses and a huge range of additional benefits in a globally respected organization.
• Enjoy regular long weekends and more balance to do the important things in life. Relocation and housing provided.

About the role

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Environmental Monitoring Officer to join our Dampier Health, Environment, Safety and Community (HSEC) team. In this role you’ll work closely with the site environmental advisors and site operational teams across numerous sites to safely carry out environmental monitoring activities in accordance with asset and regulatory approval requirements. You’ll also help to drive a culture of safety, performance and continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to do things better and putting new ideas into action.

You’ll be part of a collaborative and high performing team, with support to grow personally and professionally, while enjoying more time for what matters most with a residential roster of 5 days on, 2 days off, 4 days on, 3 days off – (9-day fortnight).

This is a great opportunity, whether you’re experienced or early in your career, for someone who enjoys problem solving, working both independently and as part of a team, and thrives in both office settings and challenging outdoor environments.

In addition to paying competitively and providing great benefits packages, we want you to live the lifestyle that is right for you and your family. And because of our size and scale, there are many opportunities to learn, grow and do more than you ever thought possible.

Every hour of every shift, your safety and wellbeing is our number one priority. We do the work only if it is safe, and we invest to make sure every member of the team has the quality tools they need to do their job.

Reporting to the Manager Health, Safety, Environment, Community (HSEC) – Dampier, the role will require you to:

• Develop, maintain and implement a monitoring schedule to achieve compliance with environmental obligations.
• Ensure environmental monitoring data is stored and maintained in the data management systems.
• Maintain and calibrate environment fieldwork equipment and assets.
• Report on monthly metrics monitoring and highlight any non‑conformances.
• QA/QC and compliance reviews of data and communication to Environment Advisors.
• Support Contractor Management for execution of environmental monitoring programs.
• Raise monitoring exceedances and support environment incident investigations as required.
• Build strong relationships with key operational and functional partners.

What you’ll bring

• Formal qualification or certification in the Environmental or Marine sciences and/or proven experience of qualification in a transferable area.
• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• An understanding of environment legislation and environmental risk in an operational setting.
• Capacity to troubleshoot in‑field problems with equipment.
• Experience with sampling/monitoring programs.
• Experience in remote work.

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority.
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto.
• Work on Country with a residential role which offers company housing and financial support with living expenses including rent and utilities (power and water).
• Full relocation provided to Western Australia from elsewhere in Australia.
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive bonus.
• 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 to family‑friendly health and medical wellbeing support.
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave, cultural leave). Our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them.
• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more.

Indigenous support

• Specialist Indigenous Support Advisors are always there for our Indigenous employees and available to support through any aspect of your employment.
• Dedicated Indigenous Talent Programme for our Operators and Tradespersons and entry level operational roles. This programme is designed to create long term sustainable careers for our Indigenous Employees to grow into leadership or technical pathways to ensure you have every opportunity to grow your career.
• Indigenous leadership programmes across some professional and operational roles to ensure that we are developing Indigenous Leaders.

Where you’ll be working

This unique role is being offered on a 5,2 – 4,3 roster, operating out of our Dampier site, and residing in Karratha.

Dampier offers a rare blend of coastal living and career opportunities. Whether you’re a young family looking for adventure and to set up a better future, or an ambitious professional who wants FIFO‑level rewards without sacrificing lifestyle or connection, Dampier delivers.

This role will be based at our 7 Mile operation out of Dampier, a short drive from the heart of Karratha. Karratha is a coastal town, situated in WA’s Pilbara region, which boasts a strong ‘community’ feel.

We operate 200 locomotives on more than 1,900 kilometres of track in the Pilbara, transporting ore from 16 mines to four port terminals. The average return distance of these trains is about 800 kilometres with the average journey cycle, including loading and unloading, taking approximately 40 hours.

Our network is the largest privately owned and operated heavy haul rail system in Australia, and as we focus on the future, our vision is to become the greatest heavy haul railway in the world.

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 can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win‑win situations and meet opportunities.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ 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.