Health and Wellness Officer

• REFERENCE:
  HR0232091
• CONTRACT:
  Full-time
• PRIMARY LOCATION:
  Pilbara, Western Australia, Australia
• DATE POSTED:
  18 Dec 2013

• Excellent opportunity to progress your career to the Superintendent role
• Work in an exciting role offering good work life balance
• Family friendly fly roster from Perth, Busselton or Derby with 9 days on and 5 days off

Rio Tinto is a global mining and metals group, dedicated to the smartest discovery, extraction and processing of the earth’s natural resources.

 

Everything we do is done with the future firmly in mind. So our employees are rewarded with opportunity, an open and diverse culture and a responsible working environment in which they can go further.

 

The opportunity

 

We are looking for a Health and Wellness Officer, based at our iron ore operation, Yandicoogina, to implement site health and wellness programmes in order to improve the health and wellbeing of employees at work and home.

 

Located 95km north-west of Newman, Yandicoogina offers a range of fly in fly out rosters. As Australia's largest producing iron ore mine, it generates more than 50 million tonnes of Hammersley Iron Yandi (HIY) fines each year.

 

Working at Yandicoogina will give you the opportunity to work in an exciting role with a good work life balance and progress your career.

 

What the role entails

 

This position is a great opportunity for an ambitious and enthusiastic individual with excellent influencing skills. Working on a fly in fly out roster (9 days on and 5 days off) and reporting to the Health and Hygiene Advisor, you will be:

• Improving the health of employees whilst assisting in reducing work and non-work related illness and injuries
• Assisting the Health Advisor with other health projects and improvement pieces 
• Attending prestart, conducting associated assessments and screening activities, including blood pressure testing, cholesterol, sleep screening and posture checks
• Managing data that comes out of research on the site whilst linking through with other teams
• Coaching and developing programmes to support individuals identified with high health risk factors whilst educating health promotion to employees
• Conducting sleep screens in accordance with Rio Tinto Iron Ore (RTIO) Sleep Screening Procedure
• Implementing health promotion and injury prevention initiatives , including corporate or site programmes such as warm up for work stretches and manual handling training

What you will need for this role

 

To succeed in this exciting and challenging role, you will have:

 

• A bachelor’s degree in Exercise or Health Science
• A manual “C” class driver’s licence
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
• Relevant experience in a similar role

A Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessing along with qualification in Chemical Management and Taproot incident investigation will be desirable. Additionally, experience with audiometric testing and working knowledge of SAP will be highly regarded.

 

Candidates internal to the Rio Tinto Group must advise their managers of their application prior to progressing to the interview stage.

 

So if this sounds like you and the opportunity you are looking for, apply now.

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