Orica
Graduate Engineer (Jan 2025)
Western Australia
Opportunity expired
Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- Apply by 13 Dec 2024
- Start date 31 Jan 2025 - 28 Feb 2025
Your role
Key responsibilities as follows:
- Work within the Engineering Operations team at the Kalgoorlie site.
- Engage in maintenance and problem-solving for plant assets.
- Participate in planned and reactive maintenance and shutdowns.
- Manage local controls and systems, depending on your engineering discipline.
About you
Candidates should possess the following:
- A Bachelor, Post Graduate, or Master’s degree in Electrical, Control Systems, Mechanical, or Chemical/Process Engineering.
- Graduation completed in 2023 or 2024.
- Full working rights in Australia and a valid driving license.
Benefits
Orica offers an attractive salary package, domestic relocation assistance, and comprehensive benefits.
Training & development
The role includes a targeted development pathway, mentorship from senior leaders, and a buddy system with experienced staff.
Career progression
Upon completing the 2-year program, transition into a permanent position with opportunities for rotation to other locations such as Helidon, Deer Park, Kooragang Island, or Yarwun.
How to apply
Submit your application through Orica's career portal, ensuring all required documents and qualifications are included.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- Engineering & Mathematics +more
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
Learning lots, interesting work
Every day is different and I am responsible for delivering solutions
This varies vastly depending on your role. In one role I was responsible for designing and implementing plant upgrades, in another I was organising pilot scale trials for new explosive products and analysing results. Lately my role involves feeding market intelligence data into stagey models.
About the employer
Orica
4.0
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Mining, Oil & Gas
Orica is one of the world’s leading mining and infrastructure solutions providers.
Pros and cons of working at Orica
Pros
The opportunity to travel to different mining sites around Australia.
The team I work with are awesome and the work I do is challenging.
Diverse rotations across the operations of a world leading manufacturer and services provider.
It's very flexible and there are many benefits. There is a wide range of work so it never gets repetitive or boring.
Opportunity to develop and learn from a variety of engineers and sites.
Cons
Dealing with internal employees that do not understand the environment our customers are operating in.
Workplace involves many hazards, chemical and otherwise. Pay is not as high as in other engineering sectors (e.g. mining or oil and gas).
It's quite hard to come into a specialist company as a new graduate with very limited knowledge or experience. You have to work extremely hard to be of any help in the first few years. It can be quite stressful.
Uncertainty about future employment (although this is an industry wide problem)
Some managers are great mentors and provide excellent guidance, feedback and invest time developing you and your skills. Whereas some others think graduates are cheap labour and don't care too much about your development. Being thrown in the deep end with little support and guidance can be quite over whelming especially when everyone is too busy to step in and help you out a little or provide that guidance you need being new.