Graduate - Mechanical Engineering - 2024

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Iron Ore Company (IOC) | Lab City, NL

Mechanical Engineering

Graduate 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 Mechanical Engineer based at Rio Tinto Labrador City.

As the successful candidate, your role will include

Being involved in project identification, research, design, development, planning & scheduling, execution, and reliability of rotating and fixed equipment while supporting the safe and reliable operation of all areas of our Kennecott site. This opportunity will allow you to develop skills around asset management, risk management, work management, and reliability to enable you to excel in your career.

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

• 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
• Network with our senior leaders and subject matter experts
• Challenge your thinking and gain outside perspective from futurists and external thought leaders
• Grow your leadership skills with 1-1 coaching sessions with an experienced external coach
• Learn fundamental leadership skills by leading a virtual team through a gamified leadership simulation
• 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 Mechanical Engineering or other related field
• Right to work in the Canada
• Less than two years of relevant work experience (local and international)
• Willingness to learn and to make an impact
• Valid driver’s license
• Curiosity in learning a variety of technical applications of mechanical engineering
• Ability to collaborate and ask questions
• Interest in working in an industrial environment

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.

In addition, here is just a glimpse of our industry leading rewards package

• Generous 401k matching program
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP) for eligible employees
• A generous relocation package for eligible candidates
• Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays)

Where you will be working

We are a leading North American producer and exporter of premium iron ore pellets and high-grade concentrate with average iron grades greater than 66%. With a team of over 2,400 employees, IOC is committed to providing value and continuity for our customers, employees, communities and shareholders through our unique mine to port approach, taking advantage of our full integration and wholly owned infrastructure to deliver our high-quality concentrate and pellets to our customers across the globe.

IOC’s operations include a mine with five operational pits, a concentrator and a pelletizing plant located near Labrador City in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. We also operate a wholly owned 418 km railway, the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway (QNS&L), that links our Labrador operations to Company-owned port facilities in Sept-Iles. This role is based in Labrador City.

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.

Next steps…

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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