Nigel Backhouse Email
General Manager - Smelting and Technology @ Rio Tinto
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Nigel Backhouse Location
- Brisbane City, QLD, AU
Nigel Backhouse Work
- 2025 -now General Manager - Smelting and Technology @
- 2024 -2025 General Manager Technical Services and Assurance @
- 2023 -2024 Interim Chief Executive Officer @
- 2019 -2024 General Manager Transformation and Technical Support @
- 2022 -2022 Chief Operating Officer - Acting @
- 2016 -2019 General Manager - Transformation office @
- 2014 -2016 General Manager Technology Research and Development - Bauxite and Alumina @
- 2013 -2014 Director - Strategic Planning @
- 2009 -2012 Director - Carbon Program @
- 2006 -2008 Carbon Plant Manager @
- 2004 -2006 Carbon Plant Operations Superintendent @
- 2002 -2004 Project Leader Carbon - AP22 Expansion @
- 1998 -2002 Research and Development Engineer @ Aluminium Pechiney
- 1995 -1998 Electrode Engineer @
- 1994 -1995 Trainee engineer @
- 1993 -1994 Trainee engineer Mount Thorley CHPP @ Rio Tinto Coal Australia
Nigel Backhouse Education
- Australian Institute of Company Directors
Company Directors Course (Governance)
2019-2019 - University of Newcastle
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) (Chemical Engineering)
1991-1995
Nigel Backhouse Skills
- Operational Strategy
- Executive Leadership
- Operations Management
- Research
- Product Development
- Business Process Improvement
- Project Management
- Continuous Improvement
- Lean Manufacturing
- Six Sigma
- R&D
- Process Engineering
- Factory
- Process Simulation
- Organizational Leadership
- Process Improvement
- Supply Chain Management
- Manufacturing
- Cross-functional Team Leadership
- Maintenance Management
- Mining
- Engineering
- Metallurgy
- Commissioning
- Development
- PowerPoint
- Technology
- Strategy
- Operations
- Java
- Alumina
- Cross Functional Team Leadership
- Bauxite
- SQL
- Technology Research
Nigel Backhouse Summary
- Nigel Backhouse, based in Brisbane City, QLD, AU, is currently a General Manager - Smelting and Technology at Rio Tinto. Nigel Backhouse brings experience from previous roles at Rio Tinto and Tomago Aluminium. Nigel Backhouse holds a 2019 - 2019 Company Directors Course in Governance @ Australian Institute of Company Directors. With a robust skill set that includes Operational Strategy, Executive Leadership, Operations Management, Research, Product Development and more. Nigel Backhouse has 4 emails on RocketReach.
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