About Us

CEO Jakob Stausholm 76% approve of Jakob Stausholm's performance Founded 1873 Company size more than 10,000 Revenue more than £7B (GBP) Industry Energy, Mining, Utilities Headquarters James's, 6 St James's Squ... Link Rio Tinto website As pioneers in mining and metals, we produce materials essential to human progress. Iron ore for steel. Aluminium for cars and smartphones. Copper for wind turbines, electric cars and the pipes that bring water to our home. Borates that help crops grow, titanium for paint – and diamonds that celebrate the best things in life. We work in 35 countries – in mines, smelters and refineries, as well as in sales offices, data centres, research and development labs and with artificial intelligence. Our geologists explore the Earth’s wildest terrain. Our wildlife specialists work to protect and conserve grizzly bears in Canada and migratory shorebirds in Western Australia. Our marketing teams make sure our essential materials meet the specific needs of customers around the world. Group Treasury is the custodian of the Group’s liquidity and balance sheet. It is responsible for funding at the Group and JV level, liquidity management, pension funding and investments and securing insurance for the Group. The department has a presence in London, Singapore, Montreal and Brisbane. Treasury safeguards c.$13.7bn of cash investments and is responsible for $13.4bn of debt raised both at the corporate and joint venture level. The corporate level debt comprises $7.3bn of bonds raised across several markets. The joint venture debt largely comprises the $4.3bn Oyu Tolgoi project finance in Mongolia. Other joint venture debt include various debt facilities spanning South Africa, Guinea and Oman. The company maintains an undrawn $7.5bn Revolving Credit Facility with 26 banks and is rated A/A2 by S&P and Moody’s. Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers. For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress. Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life. Where you’ll be working Rio Tinto is a mining and metals company operating in 35 countries around the world. Our purpose is to produce the materials essential to human progress. The Group is dual listed. Rio Tinto PLC trades on the London and New York Stock Exchange and Rio Tinto Limited traded on the Australian Securities Exchange. The company has a current market capitalization of c.$96bn and is ranked 9th in the FTSE 100 (as at 2 August 2022). Every Voice Matters 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.