Graduate Program 2027 - Process Engineer

Graduate Program 2027 – Process Engineer – Gladstone & Weipa, QLD and Gove, NT

Ready to drive meaningful change? We're on the lookout for passionate individuals who are eager to join our team and help us tackle the challenges shaping our future. At Rio Tinto, we believe innovation thrives when diverse minds collaborate toward a common purpose – creating a better tomorrow. Let's shape the future together.

Finding better waysTM to move our people forward.

Start your career as a Graduate Process Engineer across one of our operations in Gove, Weipa or Gladstone. We're looking for graduates with a bachelors degree in Chemical, Process or Metallurgical Engineering who want hands‐on experience and the opportunity to build their technical capability in a large‐scale operating environment. Whether you're working within our bauxite operations in Weipa, supporting the transition through closure and long‐term rehabilitation at Gove, or gaining exposure to complex processing at our Gladstone operations, you'll work alongside experienced professionals, contribute to real challenges and build strong foundations at the very start of your engineering career.

About the program

Our Graduate Program offers you the chance to help shape Rio Tinto from within. The Graduate Program extends over two years, focusing on developing both foundational and future‐focused skills.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard

Graduate Program 2027 – Process Engineer – Gladstone & Weipa, QLD and Gove, NT

Ready to drive meaningful change? We're on the lookout for passionate individuals who are eager to join our team and help us tackle the challenges shaping our future. At Rio Tinto,



we believe innovation thrives when diverse minds collaborate toward a common purpose – creating a better tomorrow. Let's shape the future together.

Finding better waysTM to move our people forward.

Start your career as a Graduate Process Engineer across one of our operations in Gove, Weipa or Gladstone. We're looking for graduates with a bachelors degree in Chemical, Process or Metallurgical Engineering who want hands‐on experience and the chance to build their technical capability in a large‐scale operating environment. Whether you're working within our bauxite operations in Weipa, supporting the transition through closure and long‐term rehabilitation at Gove, or gaining exposure to complex processing at our Gladstone operations, you'll work alongside experienced professionals, contribute to real challenges and build strong foundations at the very start of your engineering career.

About the program

Our Graduate Program offers you the chance to help shape Rio Tinto from within. The Graduate Program extends over two years, focusing on developing both foundational and future‐focused skills.

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 permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto




- A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
- Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
- Attractive share ownership plan
- Company provided insurance cover
- Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
- Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
- Ongoing access to family‐friendly health and medical wellbeing support
- Leave for all of life's reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
- Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
- Domestic relocation assistance

Where you will be working

Gove, Northern Territory

Our Gove site in Australia's Northern Territory has been supplying the global aluminium industry with world‐class bauxite for more than 40 years. Gove bauxite is shipped internationally as well as domestically to supply Queensland Alumina Limited and Yarwun refineries in Gladstone, Queensland. These refineries produce alumina as feedstock for our Australian aluminium smelting operations and for sale on the international market. We expect our bauxite mining operations in the Gove Peninsula will cease later this decade and we are doing significant work to support closure of the operation.

Our Weipa operations in Far North Queensland includes three bauxite mines, processing facilities, shiploaders, an export wharf, two ports, power stations, a rail network and ferry terminals. Amrun, our newest mine, was completed in 2018 and will extend our Weipa bauxite operations by decades, significantly building

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