Mining Graduate – Weipa, QLD
What if from day one you didn't just watch things happen, you made things happen?
What if you didn't just make an impression, you created a legacy?
What if you didn't just start a job, you transformed an industry?
From day one, our graduates help us transform the way we do things, making a better tomorrow for all of us. We love fresh ideas and new thinking and our grad program gives you the tools to innovate and invent - to pioneer progress for you and us.
About the role
We’re looking for an exceptional Mining Graduate to join our Graduate Program in Weipa, Qld in a permanent, residential role who want to learn and make an impact. Ambitious personalities with the gravitas to inspire colleagues and the curiosity and analytical minds to challenge the status quo.
At Rio Tinto, you’ll have the flexibility, choice and freedom to be yourself and direct your career. Our Graduate Excellence Path gives you the perfect start: an opportunity to immediately get to grips with real work, develop your technical expertise and start a legacy that improves life for millions globally.
In fact, as well as experience in your chosen field, you can expect:
A comprehensive Graduate programme that gives you the tools to excel and progress
A diverse and highly inclusive team culture that encourages collaboration across geographies, commodities, disciplines and markets
Access to industry-leading professionals who’ll nurture your talent and help to fast track your career
Exposure to innovative projects and technology that will propel mining into the digital age
What you’ll bring
To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Mining or similar
- Ideally Graduated or in your final year of study/have recently graduated within 2 years
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- The ability to work independently and within a team with strong interpersonal and collaborative skills
What you’ll get
- Domestic relocation assistance on offer
- Weipa accommodation benefit
- Remote area allowance
- Health cover scheme for employees and their immediate family
- Salary sacrifice & packaging options – rental, mortgage, super, vehicle
- Rio Tinto employee share programme
- Employee discounts – banking, accommodation, motoring, retail and more.
About Rio Tinto
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 Weipa is located 900km north-west of Cairns on the Gulf of Carpentaria and has been operating for over 50 years. Over the years, it has developed into a vibrant and diverse cultural hub of the Western Cape. Weipa offers a coastal community rich in geographical beauty and cultural heritage that provides families with opportunities to participate in leisure activities, sports and community events. With a strong sense of community, the region has plenty of natural beauty to offer including the opportunities for boating, fishing, camping and exploring.
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.
Next steps…
Join us and pioneer a career that will not only build your future, but drive progress for us all, apply today #itbeginswithyou
Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.
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Applications close 28 November 2021
