Rio Tinto is an open, transparent and responsible company. If you share our company values and are willing to contribute your best, you will flourish. Our commitment to sustainable development is fundamental to everything that we do. An equal commitment is expected from our employees. The safety and wellbeing of Rio Tinto employees is paramount, and so too is their development. We are proud of our cultural diversity. We encourage it, in terms of the roles we offer and the people who succeed in them, and we draw strength from it.
Culture & Values
We are looking for candidates with outstanding ability and specialist experience, who have the hunger and drive to grow. Equally important is a demonstrable passion for your discipline and a natural affinity with our company culture and values.
You will be working alongside some of the best people in the industry, in key operational locations, with cutting-edge technologies. You will relish the challenges. And we will give you the opportunity to learn and grow in your profession.
Our relationships with customers are built on collaboration and mutual respect. We strive to exceed their expectations.
With fellow employees, we build an environment based on safety, teamwork, support, encouragement and sharing of success. Each of us takes personal accountability for our behaviour.
Social Responsibility
We aim to succeed, but succeed responsibly. We believe that acting responsibly produces real business benefits in the long term - such as lower risks, reduced costs, new opportunities, better relationships and a reputation that is respected. And it is what our employees demand.
We act responsibly towards the communities we are based in, engaging with local community organisations and building partnerships where our expertise can be of benefit. The initiatives that Rio Tinto's businesses are involved in include projects to raise educational levels in remote communities in Australia and work to combat the problems associated with AIDS in South Africa.
Rio Tinto has also made a strategic commitment to sustainable development that requires our businesses to consider the environmental impacts of our operations throughout their life cycle. In many cases, we have used our close relationship with the environment to work through partnerships to improve understanding in such areas as biodiversity, land management and the ecology of river environments
Employment Policies
Rio Tinto employs on the basis of job requirement only. We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate on grounds of age, ethnic or social origin, gender, sexual orientation, politics or religion. Where local laws allow, we favour the employment of local people. We do not employ forced, bonded or child labour.
Our key statement of business practice is The way we work.
Student Programmes
Vacation opportunities and internships
Vacation work is a great way to explore your career aspirations, and our business units often have work programmes to help aspiring new employees with internships, coop terms or vacation work, particularly in engineering and geoscience. The timing of these opportunities differs from country to country and applications are taken through our graduate recruitment site. If you'd like to know when these opportunities arise please register for our graduate newsletter.
There are a limited number of international internships available for geology, mining and metallurgy students in their third year. Details are published in the newsletter and on the website.
The Africa/Europe division of Rio Tinto Exploration runs a summer placement scheme as a pre-cursor for recruitment. Details are available on the Europe/Exploration section of graduate recruitment site.
Scholarships
Rio Tinto offers scholarships to students entering their second year of study in geology, mining and metallurgy at selected universities in the US, Canada, South Africa, the UK and Australia. Eligible universities are shown below and contact should be made though the relevant department at the university
Graduate Programmes
New talent is essential to our business, and Rio Tinto provides great career opportunities for outstanding graduates across many disciplines. Although the packages offered differ between our businesses, some of the benefits we can provide our graduates may include:
Attractive remuneration packages
The opportunity to participate in Rio Tinto share schemes
Training and development to build a successful career
Study assistance for approved courses
Membership fees for recognised professional associations
Opportunities to broaden your experience in many challenging roles within and across business units, nationally and potentially internationally.
To find out more, visit our graduate recruitment site to see the variety of career opportunities available across our global operations
Australian national indigenous cadetship project
Since 1999 Rio Tinto and the Australian Commonwealth Department of Employment and Workplace Relatons (DEWR) have been working together to increase the employment of Indigenous people at Rio Tinto's operations and in related enterprises.
Rio Tinto was one of the first to private sector organisations to support the Australian Government's National Indigenous Cadetship Project (NICP). The NICP is administered by the Indigenous Employment Branch of the DEWR. It is designed to provide financial support to Indigenous tertiary students. By supporting the NICP, Ri Tinto is contributing to the development of Indigenous professionals with diverse skills and experience.
Eleven cadets have graduated and gained employment in their area of study, six of whom have taken up graduate roles with Rio Tinto. Preference is given to, but not restricted to, cadets who are from local Indigenous communities nearby Rio Tinto operations.
The NCIP is an integral part of Rio Tinto's Indigenous Employment and Training Strategy and our commitment to engage with communities.
Cadets can enrol in NICP from first to fourth year depending on their course structures. They are recruited from a diverse range of disciplines from universities across Australia.
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