Graduate - Automation Engineering - 2024

1 month ago


Kitimat, Canada Rio Tinto Full time

BC Works | Kitimat, BC

Automation & Technology Engineering

Graduate role - 2024

If you want to drive real change, we have just the place to do it. Our Graduate Development Program is an opportunity for you to shape Rio Tinto from the inside out. We want you to be part of our team to help take us forward by solving the emerging challenges of our time. At Rio Tinto, we believe the best ideas come from bringing people together with different perspectives to work toward a common goal - to create a better tomorrow.

About the role

We're looking for graduates from a range of degrees for different areas across our business. This requisition is for a role of Graduate Chemical / Process / Metallurgical Engineer based at Rio Tinto Kitimat, BC.

As the successful candidate, your role will include:

To develop skills around asset management, risk management, work management, and reliability to enable you to excel in your career. Be responsible for analysing change requests from different areas of the plant, designing innovative solutions, developing various alternatives, testing the chosen solution and commissioning while providing technical assistance when required.

Joining us as a Graduate, you'll experience our innovative, future focused Development Program where you will:

  • Learn fundamental leadership skills by leading a virtual team through a gamified leadership simulation
  • Challenge your thinking and gain outside perspective from futurists and external thought leaders
  • Acquire a toolkit focused on future skills to inspire innovation and creativity through a series of masterclasses
  • Team up with graduate colleagues to innovate solutions for future business and world challenges
  • Grow your leadership skills with 1-1 coaching sessions with an experienced external coach
  • Network with our senior leaders and subject matter experts
  • Access world-class digital learning

What you'll bring:

To be eligible for the Graduate program, you must have completed your studies within the last two years (2022, 2023) or working towards graduation in 2024.

  • Bachelor or master's degree in Automation, Electrical Engineering, or other related field
  • Less than two years of relevant work experience (local and international)
  • Right to work in Canada
  • Valid driver's license
  • A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
  • Leadership skills, eagerness to learn and ready for the challenges ahead.
  • Interest in working in a large complex industrial environment
  • Safety mindset
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Flexibility and autonomy
  • Enthusiasm to collaborate with different teams in unique environments
What we offer

Our global Graduate Development Program is designed to prepare the leaders of the future through a series of engaging, progressive, and future skills activities. Visit our webpage for a detailed overview of our program.

Here is just a glimpse of our industry leading rewards package:

  • A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
  • A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees
  • Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions.
  • Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
  • Excellent retirement plan
  • A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays)
  • Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter
  • Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
Where you'll be working

Rio Tinto BC Works is a part of the Atlantic Operations of the Aluminum product group. Rio Tinto has been operating in British Columbia for over 65 years. With industry leading new technology and four generations of employee expertise, as well as our hydropower facility at Kemano and the Nechako Reservoir, the Kitimat smelter is one of the most driven aluminum smelters in the world, producing aluminum with one of the lowest carbon footprints in the world. Rio Tinto is proud to operate in BC alongside our 1000 employees, community partners and First Nations, and we look forward to the next 60 years.

About Rio Tinto

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminum, 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 and meet opportunities.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from underrepresented groups such as, Indigenous people, women, the LGBTI+ 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.

Please note, in order to be considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.

*Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings as there is enough applicants, therefore, if you are interested in applying for this vacancy, please submit your application as soon as possible.

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

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