Senior Advisor Communications

Rio Tinto; Labrador City; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Annual incentive program

Health and pension programs

Employee discounts

Job summary

Rio Tinto IOC in Labrador City, NL, is seeking a Senior Advisor, Communications to shape employee communications across operations. You will help leaders communicate clearly, strengthen engagement, and connect business priorities with the employee experience.

Based in a northern community, this role offers a balance between impact and quality of life, with a focus on safety, culture, and multi‑channel storytelling across newsletters, screens, emails and videos.

Qualifications

• Commitment to safety of yourself and your team.
• Proven experience advising leaders on employee communications, engagement, or related strategies.
• Strong ability to develop communication plans, campaigns, and leadership communications.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement communication plans that support priorities and safety culture.
• Advise Labrador City leaders with strategic, frontline‑focused messages.
• Translate complex business decisions into clear, actionable messages for leaders and staff.
• Lead or support employee communication campaigns and town halls.
• Gather employee feedback and monitor sentiment to identify emerging issues.

Skills

Employee communications

Organizational change

Leadership communications

Multi-channel content

Education

Bachelor's degree in Communications

Tools

Microsoft 365

Teams

SharePoint

Viva Engage

Job description

Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Aug 27, 2026

Play a key role in shaping employee communications that support safe, reliable, and productive operations across IOC.

Influence leaders, drive engagement, and contribute to IOC communication initiatives with broad business impact.

Enjoy a full-time permanent opportunity based in Labrador City, NL, with a schedule designed to support work-life balance.

At Rio Tinto IOC, we are committed to creating an inclusive and welcoming workplace where everyone feels safe, respected, and able to succeed. We actively encourage applications from women, Indigenous Peoples, and people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Advisor, Communications to join the team in Labrador City, NL. This is an opportunity to help leaders communicate clearly, strengthen employee engagement, and create meaningful connections between business priorities and the employee experience.

In Labrador City, you’ll find a close‑knit northern community where quality of life and genuine connection come naturally.

Enjoy the outdoors year‑round; camping, fishing, hunting, hiking and boating throughout the summer and fall seasons. Winter thrills include groomed snowmobile trails, snowshoeing trails, alpine and cross-country skiing, including night skiing, often beneath the Northern Lights.

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Director, Communications, CSP and External Affairs, you will support employee communications across IOC operations while contributing to enterprise-wide communication initiatives. You will:

Develop and implement communication plans that support operational priorities, employee engagement, health and safety, culture, and business performance.

Act as a trusted communications advisor to Labrador City leaders, providing strategic guidance and partnering with them to deliver that resonate with frontline employees and support safe, reliable, and productive operations.

Translate complex business decisions into clear, relevant, and actionable messages for leaders and employees.

Lead or support employee communication campaigns, town halls, employee meetings, and leadership communication activities.

Strengthen two-way communication by gathering employee feedback, monitoring sentiment, and identifying emerging issues and recommending actions to leaders.

Create and manage content across newsletters, digital screens, emails, videos, presentations, and collaboration platforms.

Partner with Communications, CSP, External Affairs, Human Resources, Health and Safety, Operations, and other functions on selected internal or external programs, community engagement and reputation-building initiatives as required.

Collaborate across functions to ensure communication approaches are coordinated, integrated and aligned with business priorities and organizational objectives.

About you

We’re looking for someone whose experience aligns with the key requirements below. You do not need to meet every ‘helpful for success’ item to apply. If you bring relevant experience and are excited by the opportunity, we encourage you to submit an application.

Required for Success

A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.

Demonstrated experience advising leaders on employee communications, engagement, organizational change, or related communication strategies.

Strong experience developing communication plans, campaigns, leadership communications, and multi-channel content in a complex organization.

Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling capability with the ability to translate complex information into clear messages.

A degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

Proficiency with Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, Viva Engage, and digital communication tools.

Helpful for Success

Experience supporting communications within large-scale industrial, operational, mining, manufacturing, or safety-critical environments.

Ability to transform ideas and data into compelling presentations, infographics, and other visual storytelling assets that enhance engagement and understanding

French language skills and experience supporting community engagement or reputation-building initiatives.

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

Where you’ll be working

We are a leading North American producer and exporter of premium iron ore pellets and high‑grade concentrate with average iron grades greater than 66%. With a team of over 2,700 employees, IOC is committed to providing value and continuity for our customers, employees, communities and shareholders through our unique mine to port approach, taking advantage of our full integration and wholly owned infrastructure to deliver our high‑quality concentrate and pellets to our customers across the globe.

IOC’s operations include a mine with five operational pits, a concentrator and a pelletizing plant located near Labrador City in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. We also operate a wholly-owned 418 km railway, the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway (QNS&L), that links our Labrador operations to company-owned port facilities in Sept-Iles.

Working at Rio Tinto also means choosing to be part of a company recognized one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers in 2026 and one of Canada’s Top Employers for Young People in 2025.

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.

Respect and Inclusion

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 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.

Rio Tinto is a global leader in mining, supplying essential materials like iron ore, aluminium, copper, and borates for sustainable technologies and construction.