Engineering Graduate Associate

Engineering Graduate Associate

Applications for Orica's 2027 Engineering Leadership Development (Engineering Graduate Associate) Program are now open. Turn your engineering degree into a career that makes a real impact. At Orica, you'll do more than start a job—you'll launch your career with a global leader in mining, technology, and innovation. From day one, you'll work on real projects, solve complex engineering challenges, and contribute to operations that help deliver the resources essential to modern life.

Our two-year Leadership Development Program is designed for ambitious engineers who want to accelerate their professional growth. Through hands-on experience, technical and operational rotations, leadership development, and mentoring from industry experts, you'll gain exposure to multiple areas of the business while building the skills needed to become a future leader. Whether your passion lies in engineering, operations, technology, safety, project management, or innovation, you'll have the opportunity to explore diverse career paths, work alongside experienced professionals, and make a meaningful contribution from the very start.

Join a company that invests in your potential and gives you the opportunity to build a career—not just a role. At Orica, it's the power of our people that leads change and shapes our futures. Every day, all around the world, our people help mobilize vital resources essential to progress. Established in 1874, we have grown to become the world leader in mining and civil blasting with a diverse team of more than 13,000 across the world.

It's an exciting time to join us – we are shaping the future of mining through digital and automated technologies, embracing new ways of thinking, pioneering innovation, and reimagining the way we work.

About The Role

Our two-year rotational Engineering Graduate Program offers engaging and diverse rotations to give you the experience you need to set your career up for success. We believe it's important for our graduates to explore. So, we'll give you real responsibilities from day one so you can learn, grow and develop with Orica. Discover a specialist role, a broad career-path, or even an unexpected future.

We give you the tools and experience to flourish and shape your career, wherever you'd like to go.

What You Will Be Doing

During the two-year graduate program, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge with coaching, on-the-job-training and career management guidance. You will have your own personalized learning roadmap, to guide your experience and ensure your distinct potential is supported. The Orica Graduate Program is focused on developing graduates across our core business units such as:

• Mining Services
• Technical Services
• PPIS
• Safety
• Project Management
• Supply Chain
• And possibly others!

Our graduates rotate through several technical on-site rotations. These core rotations are designed to give you a solid foundation for your professional development and prepare you as you transition into your professional career. Some example rotations include Field Operations, Technical Services, Manufacturing, Technology and Commercial.

Degrees and Disciplines

Orica accepts graduates from a range of engineering disciplines including:

• Mining Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Geology or Geological Engineering
• Environmental Engineering
• Other Engineering degrees, as appropriate

Eligibility

• Be eligible to work within the United States with no sponsorship

• Be eligible to drive a motor vehicle in the United States

• Be in your final year of your university undergraduate degree or have completed your degree within the last year

• Be willing to undergo a pre-employment background check, medical and drug screen

• Be open to living and working anywhere in the United States

• Be willing to relocate multiple times during your first two years for each rotation, likely in remote locations across the United States, based on business need

• Be willing to permanently live and work in a remote location anywhere in the United States once the two-year rotation program ends, based on business need

• Be living in the United States and…