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Manage key operational workforce, talent, engagement and organisational priorities across a complex, large-scale portfolio, partnering directly with senior leaders. Build breadth across employee and labour relations, talent, performance, organisational change and workforce insights. Role can be based from either Salt Lake City or Santiago to best support stakeholders.
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
We are looking for a People Partner to translate business strategy into practical people and workforce plans across a defined portfolio. In this role, you’ll act as a trusted partner to leadership teams, helping them navigate workforce priorities, talent, performance, employee relations, engagement and organisational change in complex, large-scale and often multi-geography environments. This is an opportunity to influence meaningful business outcomes while strengthening your impact across the full people agenda.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING
Reporting to the Manager People Partnering and supporting the Exploration Americas team, you will be:
- Act as the trusted partner supporting senior leaders on day-to-day people matters, shaping priorities and coordinating delivery through People Experience and specialist teams.
- Translating people strategies into practical workforce and people plans for the portfolio, with clear actions and near-term priorities.
- Collaborating with specialist People teams, including Organisation and Talent Partners, People Experience, Areas of Expertise, Talent and Reward, to deliver aligned people strategies and initiatives.
- Delivering operational workforce planning and facilitating strategic workforce plan fulfilment with relevant stakeholders.
- Guiding leaders through complex employee and labour relations matters, including escalations.
- Leading performance, talent and pay review processes, including calibration activities, to support fair, consistent and timely outcomes.
- Using employee engagement, workforce, case and query data to identify trends and turn insights into targeted actions that improve team effectiveness and employee experience.
- Leading the people aspects of organisational change and restructures, enabling leaders and supporting effective communication, engagement and adoption.
- Coaching leaders on performance, team effectiveness and employee experience while sharing portfolio insights to inform enterprise people strategies and frameworks.
ABOUT YOU
We’re looking for someone whose experience aligns with the key requirements below. You do not need to meet every “helpful for success” item to apply; if you bring relevant experience and are excited by the opportunity, we encourage you to submit an application.
REQUIRED FOR SUCCESS
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
- Skills and Capabilities: Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with senior leaders, provide practical advice and translate business priorities into actionable people outcomes.
- Experience: Demonstrated business partnering experience across workforce planning, performance, talent, engagement and organisational change in a complex organisation.
- Employee and Labour Relations: Sound judgement in applying employee and labour relations frameworks, coordinating specialist support and managing or escalating risk.
- Data and Insights: Ability to interpret workforce, engagement, case or query data and convert findings into targeted business actions.
- Collaboration and Delivery: Experience working across people teams and specialist functions to deliver consistent, high-quality outcomes within agreed timeframes.
- Fluency in both Spanish and English, with strong written and verbal communication skills in both languages, is required.
HELPFUL FOR SUCCESS
- Experience supporting leaders across large-scale, operational or multi-geography environments.
- Experience with union matters, organisational restructures or enterprise-wide change and transformation initiatives.
- Experience facilitating talent or performance calibration sessions and supporting fair, consistent pay review decisions.
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 competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees
- Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
- Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan
- Wellbeing benefits
- Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
- Employee Assistance Program
- Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
- Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
Applications close at 11:59pm local time on 18 October 2026. Applications after this date will not be accepted.
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
Rio Tinto is committed to equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel safe, respected and valued. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome but are essential to our success. We treat all our people fairly and with dignity.
Rio Tinto participates in E-Verify to confirm work authorization. Please visit http://www.ucis.gov/ for more information.
INTRODUCTION
Manage key operational workforce, talent, engagement and organisational priorities across a complex, large-scale portfolio, partnering directly with senior leaders. Build breadth across employee and labour relations, talent, performance, organisational change and workforce insights. Role can be based from either Salt Lake City or Santiago to best support stakeholders.
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
We are looking for a People Partner to translate business strategy into practical people and workforce plans across a defined portfolio. In this role, you’ll act as a trusted partner to leadership teams, helping them navigate workforce priorities, talent, performance, employee relations, engagement and organisational change in complex, large-scale and often multi-geography environments. This is an opportunity to influence meaningful business outcomes while strengthening your impact across the full people agenda.
WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING
Reporting to the Manager People Partnering and supporting the Exploration Americas team, you will be:
- Act as the trusted partner supporting senior leaders on day-to-day people matters, shaping priorities and coordinating delivery through People Experience and specialist teams.
- Translating people strategies into practical workforce and people plans for the portfolio, with clear actions and near-term priorities.
- Collaborating with specialist People teams, including Organisation and Talent Partners, People Experience, Areas of Expertise, Talent and Reward, to deliver aligned people strategies and initiatives.
- Delivering operational workforce planning and facilitating strategic workforce plan fulfilment with relevant stakeholders.
- Guiding leaders through complex employee and labour relations matters, including escalations.
- Leading performance, talent and pay review processes, including calibration activities, to support fair, consistent and timely outcomes.
- Using employee engagement, workforce, case and query data to identify trends and turn insights into targeted actions that improve team effectiveness and employee experience.
- Leading the people aspects of organisational change and restructures, enabling leaders and supporting effective communication, engagement and adoption.
- Coaching leaders on performance, team effectiveness and employee experience while sharing portfolio insights to inform enterprise people strategies and frameworks.
ABOUT YOU
We’re looking for someone whose experience aligns with the key requirements below. You do not need to meet every “helpful for success” item to apply; if you bring relevant experience and are excited by the opportunity, we encourage you to submit an application.
REQUIRED FOR SUCCESS
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
- Skills and Capabilities: Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with senior leaders, provide practical advice and translate business priorities into actionable people outcomes.
- Experience: Demonstrated business partnering experience across workforce planning, performance, talent, engagement and organisational change in a complex organisation.
- Employee and Labour Relations: Sound judgement in applying employee and labour relations frameworks, coordinating specialist support and managing or escalating risk.
- Data and Insights: Ability to interpret workforce, engagement, case or query data and convert findings into targeted business actions.
- Collaboration and Delivery: Experience working across people teams and specialist functions to deliver consistent, high-quality outcomes within agreed timeframes.
- Fluency in both Spanish and English, with strong written and verbal communication skills in both languages, is required.
HELPFUL FOR SUCCESS
- Experience supporting leaders across large-scale, operational or multi-geography environments.
- Experience with union matters, organisational restructures or enterprise-wide change and transformation initiatives.
- Experience facilitating talent or performance calibration sessions and supporting fair, consistent pay review decisions.
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 competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees
- Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
- Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan
- Wellbeing benefits
- Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
- Employee Assistance Program
- Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
- Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
Applications close at 11:59pm local time on 18 October 2026. Applications after this date will not be accepted.
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
Rio Tinto is committed to equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel safe, respected and valued. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome but are essential to our success. We treat all our people fairly and with dignity.
Rio Tinto participates in E-Verify to confirm work authorization. Please visit http://www.ucis.gov/ for more information.
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Confirm your degree supports specialty occupation
USCIS requires a direct relationship between your degree field and the HR intern role. A degree in human resources, industrial-organizational psychology, or business administration strengthens the specialty occupation argument far more than a general studies credential.
Target employers with formal internship programs
Companies running structured HR internship cohorts are more likely to have the legal infrastructure to file H-1B petitions. Look for programs at large corporations, consulting firms, or multinationals that already employ international staff across HR functions.
Search verified H-1B sponsors on Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter Human Resources Intern openings by employers with confirmed LCA filing history in HR occupations. This cuts out roles where sponsorship is listed as a possibility but the employer has no actual filing track record.
Check the prevailing wage before negotiating offers
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your HR role at your work location. Run the OFLC Wage Search using the relevant SOC code before accepting an offer to verify the stated compensation meets the legal minimum.
Clarify cap-subject status before your offer letter
Most private employers sponsoring HR interns are cap-subject, meaning your petition enters the annual H-1B lottery. Confirm this upfront so your start date expectations align with the April filing window and October 1 employment eligibility timeline.
Document your HR coursework and any practical training
USCIS may issue an RFE questioning whether an intern-level HR role requires a bachelor's degree. Collect course transcripts, program syllabi, and any OPT or CPT authorization letters that demonstrate the academic connection to the specific duties in your offer.
H-1B Visa Human Resources Intern: Frequently Asked Questions
Can an HR intern role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, if the employer can demonstrate the position normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field like human resources, organizational behavior, or business administration. Roles described as requiring any degree, or no degree at all, are unlikely to satisfy USCIS specialty occupation criteria. The job description and internal hiring standards both matter when building that case.
Do large companies actually sponsor H-1B visas for HR intern positions?
Some do, particularly Fortune 500 firms and multinationals running structured internship pipelines that convert to full-time roles. Smaller organizations rarely have the legal resources to sponsor intern-level H-1B petitions. To find employers with a documented track record, browse Human Resources Intern listings on Migrate Mate, which surfaces roles from companies with verified LCA filing history in HR occupations.
How does the H-1B lottery affect timing for an HR internship offer?
Cap-subject H-1B petitions must be filed in April for an October 1 start date. If you receive an HR intern offer for a summer or fall term, the lottery timeline may not align unless the employer is cap-exempt or you already hold an approved H-1B. Confirm the intended start date and the employer's cap status before signing an offer letter.
What SOC code applies to HR intern roles under the LCA?
Most HR intern positions fall under SOC code 13-1071 (Human Resources Specialists) or 11-3121 (Human Resources Managers), depending on the duties. Your employer selects the code when filing the LCA with DOL. The code determines the prevailing wage level, so it's worth reviewing the O*NET occupation profile for those codes to understand what duties and qualifications USCIS expects to see documented.
Can I use OPT while waiting for my H-1B to be approved for an HR role?
Yes. If you're an F-1 student, you can work as an HR intern on OPT while your H-1B petition is pending, as long as your OPT authorization covers the employment period. The cap-gap rule also extends your OPT and F-1 status automatically if your OPT expires between April 1 and October 1 while a timely-filed H-1B petition is pending or approved.