Jobs at Rio Tinto

Provides UK HR operations support across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, workforce transactions, Right to Work checks, employee data maintenance, and HR compliance. Serves as a first point of contact for employee and manager enquiries, triaging and escalating issues appropriately. The role also supports reporting, data quality, payroll collaboration, process improvement, standardisation, and automation within a global HR services team.

Administer employee benefits across health, retirement, insurance, leave, and wellbeing programs. Apply policies and eligibility rules, resolve employee cases, coordinate with providers, maintain accurate records across HR and vendor systems, and perform reconciliations and quality checks. Support enrolment and program changes, communicate benefits guidance, and implement process improvements that enhance efficiency, accuracy, governance, and employee experience.

Leads the creation and operation of Rio Tinto’s global second-line ethics and compliance assurance capability. Responsibilities include designing assurance frameworks, monitoring controls and risks, establishing governance, producing executive and Board-level reporting, leading a multidisciplinary global team, and overseeing compliance data, reporting systems, analytics, learning, and communications. The role partners with risk, internal audit, technology, and senior governance stakeholders to drive continuous improvement and informed decision-making.

Provide global subject-matter leadership on sanctions, export controls, anti-boycott obligations, and trade compliance risks. Advise on high-risk counterparties, ownership, countries, goods, technology, end use, licensing, and cross-border transfers. Maintain compliance standards and controls, support investigations and regulatory responses, develop monitoring and assurance, and deliver training and practical guidance to stakeholders across operations, procurement, logistics, technology, trading, and strategic transactions.

Provide senior, independent privacy and data protection advice across Rio Tinto’s global operations. Lead complex privacy impact assessments, advise on AI and emerging technologies, manage incidents and regulatory matters, negotiate privacy contracts and international data transfers, and support major transactions. The role requires collaboration across Legal, Ethics, People, Cyber, Procurement and technology teams, while managing external counsel and developing practical global privacy governance positions.