Permanent full time role – Perth, Brisbane
About The Role
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
We are looking for a results-driven
Manager HR Process Technology to Lead the cross‑functional process and product portfolio across the People Technology team, ensuring integrated, simple, global, and sustainable end‑to‑end processes and products.
The role provides strategic leadership across cross‑functional initiatives, dependencies, standards, integrations, knowledge management, translations and operational vendor partnerships to enable a cohesive and high‑quality user experience across the People function.
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 Senior Manager HR Process Technology, you will
- Lead functional delivery of cross‑functional initiatives and projects, e.g. mergers, acquisitions that span multiple process streams, ensuring alignment to People Digital strategy and business outcomes.
- Unify the individual end‑to‑end process and product roadmaps to create a cohesive, efficient flow across the entire employee lifecycle, ensuring cross‑functional dependencies are identified, sequenced, and resolved to enable integrated design, smooth delivery, and strong adoption
- Partner with the HR Process Technology Manager’s in other process areas to identify and resolve cross‑functional constraints and promote globally standard, simple processes.
- Continuously scan, assess, and champion emerging people technologies that have the potential to transform how we deliver HR services end‑to‑end, encouraging the function to think beyond current platforms and consider new digital capabilities that create step‑change efficiencies and better employee experiences.
- Evaluate processes across the full employee lifecycle to identify opportunities for automation, simplification, and scalability using new and innovative technologies, not limited to Workday, ensuring we design for the organisation’s future state.
- Guide the functional adoption and integration of new digital solutions into the broader people-technology ecosystem, ensuring they complement — rather than replicate — existing tools, and create cohesive, future‑ready end‑to‑end processes.
- Define and prioritise clear, business‑led functional requirements to guide IST solutioning and ensure integration design aligns with process needs and user experience expectations.
- Driver cross‑functional process and product standards in partnership with relevant stakeholders within the People Domain and People Function that support consistent ways of working and integrated design principles.
- Act as guardian of cross‑functional business process designs, process integrity, and delivery of cross functional OKRs.
What You’ll Bring
- A commitment to the health, safety and well-being of yourself and your team
- Strategic thinking – the ability to align technology initiatives with organisational goals and long-term vision
- Strong cross functional leadership abilities
- Technology Acumen - Understanding of emerging technologies, process automation, and digital transformation trends.
- Systems thinking - Ability to see interdependencies across processes and technology platforms.
- Stakeholder Management – building trust and maintaining strong relationships across diverse groups
- Collaboration – working effectively across teams and functions
- Continuous Improvement - Applying Agile, or similar methodologies to enhance efficiency
- Leadership and Coaching – developing team members for growth and accountability
What We Offer
Be recognised 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 permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
- A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
- 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)
- Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
Where you’ll be working
This role can be based in Brisbane, Perth or Montreal
Applications will close on Thursday the 26th of February 2026.
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 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.
