Specialist Capability Excellence

• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities

• Balanced Work-Life Rhythm: Our lifestyle-friendly roster provides a harmonious balance between career and home life ensuring you spend more time with your loved ones and doing the things outside of work, that matter most to you.

• Role based in Charlotte, USA and/or Salta, Argentina

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

As part of the RTAL Global Capability Development team, this role contributes to advancing learning, future skills, talent, and culture across Rio Tinto Aluminum & Lithium.

We are looking for a Specialist Capability Excellence to lead the unification, governance, and optimization of capability systems, ensuring strong data integrity while providing subject matter expertise to the global capability community across Aluminum & Lithium. This role plays a critical part in enabling consistent, reliable capability data that supports informed decision‑making at all levels of the organization.

With a strong focus on learning, future skills, talent, and culture, this is an excellent opportunity for a data‑driven, detail‑oriented, and highly collaborative professional to influence capability excellence at scale. You will work across regions and functions, partnering with stakeholders globally to strengthen systems, streamline processes, and support a more integrated and future‑focused capability ecosystem.

Reporting to the Manager – Capability Excellence and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will:

• Provide expert guidance and best practice to the capability and HR community across RTAL for effective use of HR, learning technologies and data systems.

• Develop training resources to enhance system knowledge and reporting skills for end users

• Oversee system upgrades, assess project needs, and implement solutions to improve capability outcomes.

• Work with various teams to identify opportunities and implement solutions that enhance learning workflows, system integrations and automation.

• Maintain high data accuracy within capability and learning management systems ensuring all records are complete, updated and aligned with organisational needs across RTAL globally

• Ensure compliance with regulatory and internal standards, maintaining best practices in data governance and record management principles

• Extract, analyse and present capability data to provide insights on effectiveness, compliance and skill development trends. Develop comprehensive reports and dashboards using tools like Power BI, SQL, and Crystal Reports to support data-driven decision making

• Identifying opportunities for system/process enhancements, working with the AoE and regional capability teams to deliver fit-for-purpose solutions

About you

• A strong commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Bachelor’s degree preferred, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a relevant field

• Strong experience working with capability, HR or learning systems, including learning management systems and data integration platforms

• Solid data analytics and reporting skills, with experience using tools such as SQL, Power BI or similar BI solutions

• Ability to analyze, streamline and improve workflows, with a focus on data quality, governance and consistency

• Proven experience supporting the transition from manual or Excel‑based processes to more structured, integrated and scalable solutions

• Strong communication, collaboration and training skills, with the ability to provide guidance to a diverse stakeholder group

• A global mindset, focused on enabling a unified and consistent approach to capability systems across RTAL

• Fluency in English and Spanish, both written and spoken, required due to regular collaboration with global teams and partners

• Knowledge of French is considered an asset

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

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 LGBTQIA+ 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.