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Orica

4.0
  • 1,000 - 50,000 employees

Orica Graduate Programs & Internships

  • Mining, Oil & Gas

Orica provides market-leading customer solutions to improve productivity and resource efficiency in the mining, quarrying, oil and gas and infrastructure sectors. An Australian company with a global footprint, Orica has a diverse workforce of over 12,500 people, with operations in more than 50 countries and customers in more than 100.

Orica’s value of No Accidents Today underpins our commitment to the safety, health and wellbeing of our people and customers, the environment, and the communities in which we operate.

Orica is the largest provider of commercial explosives and blasting systems to the mining and infrastructure markets, the global leader in the provision of ground support in mining and tunnelling, and the leading supplier of sodium cyanide for gold extraction.

Orica has a strong portfolio of manufacturing and distribution assets strategically located across Australia Pacific, Asia, EMEA, Latin America and North America which enables us to provide valuable supply chain capabilities for our customers.

An Australian company with a global footprint, Orica has a diverse workforce of over 12,500 people, with operations in more than 50 countries and customers in more than 100.

Our strategy is to create sustainable shareholder value through the customer-focused, innovation-led and capital efficient supply of differentiated blasting, mining chemicals and ground support services and products.

These are delivered through low-cost manufacturing and third-party sourcing that underpins the security of supply.

Orica delivers value by developing and commercialising differentiated services and products that maximise our customers’ capacity to:

  • Transform mineral resources into recoverable reserves
  • Increase mine productivity and mill throughput
  • Increase mineral recovery
  • Reduce energy consumption
  • Operate safely – above and below ground
  • Improve noise, vibration and fume control
  • Improve mineral processing efficiency

Global Graduate Program:

The Orica Global Graduate Program is designed to develop your leadership potential and set you ahead in your career.

A truly global program, Orica's graduates are based throughout 19 countries.

The Program:

  1. Diverse rotations across different parts of the business
  2. Formal graduate development workshops each year with a focus on developing your leadership potential
  3. Structured networking opportunities with the Orica senior leadership team
  4. An assigned Mentor for career guidance, support and advice
  5. A nominated graduate Buddy in your first year for peer-to-peer support
  6. Involvement in local community projects and the option to be involved in our Graduate Sustainability Committee
  7. A graduate peer community – one that lasts a lifetime

Graduate Reviews

Overall Score
4.0
Overall score based on 13 reviews
They Score Best in…
8.4
Sustainability
8.3
Recruitment
8.1
Satisfaction
8.0
Work Hours
8.4
Sustainability
8.3
Recruitment
8.1
Satisfaction
8.0
Work Hours
What Graduates Say About Them
  • 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.
  • 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.

Jobs & Opportunities

Locations With Jobs & Opportunities
  • Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane
Hiring candidates with qualifications in
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IT & Computer Science
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