Overview
Chemical, Mechanical, Electrical & Mechatronics Engineers
This is an exciting time to join our team! With Orica, you can look forward to trying out a variety of roles, from project and design, to operations and maintenance, to commissioning and technical services.
Our engineers are rotated through our various plant environments across Australia as well as our Engineering Shared Services department, based in Melbourne and Mount Maunganui NZ. Our aim is to expose you to a range of our businesses, so you can take full advantage of our size and rapid growth. Short-term international projects and longer-term secondments are also offered to graduates whenever possible.
At the end of your rotation experience, you should be ready to move into a junior people management role at one of our many production sites, or into a junior reliability or shared services role requiring specialised project engineering skills. Engineering is often a skill that can be applied to science R&D roles within Orica, and the option to move across streams, or into a commercial field, is openly encouraged. As Orica transforms into a solutions based, customer-focussed company, the experience of our engineering employees will, and already has, proven invaluable.
This is an amazing opportunity for you to experience some of the very different engineering roles available within an Australian company with international, technology-based operations. Orica’s training program also provides personal and professional development, complementing on-the-job training. Our focus on your personal growth ensures your transition from graduate to fully-fledged professional engineer with a broad skills base and excellent networks both across the company and into the wider professional engineering community.
We want you to enjoy a diversity of experience, professionally, geographically, and across our four Orica business platforms. So, you’ll undertake three 12-month rotation roles across the three years of our Graduate program. These roles will be real jobs, not training positions.
Typical rotational roles involve exposure to:
- Implementing new projects (project management, plant design and analysis, cost control, engineering contracts, liaising with engineering contracting organisations, commissioning new or uprated plants)
- Techno-commercial (key contact providing technical support to Orica's customers).
- Operating plant environment (plant reliability, maintenance, process efficiency monitoring & improvement, plant development, small project implementation, shut-down planning and implementation)
Our engineers have told us they like working with Orica because we:
- have a demonstrated commitment to safety health and the environment, and an obvious culture of safety, health and environment (SH&E) improvement
- offer a wide range of career path options, and the opportunity to move into commercial and management fields
- recognise the contribution of technical functions, and a clear path for career advancement via professional development in a technical role
- pay a competitive salary
- offer career planning support
- foster a work/life balance
- offer real responsibility from day one in a supportive team environment
Your team will ensure you are thoroughly trained and supported, and you’ll have a great chance to join your peers at our two annual workshops.
Where could you be five years from now?
With Orica, you can follow your dreams, in whichever direction they take you. At the end of five years, you may be anywhere, from mining to project and design, to operations and maintenance, to commissioning and technical services. Or you may be anywhere from a geographical perspective as well. After all, our people are spread throughout the world.
You may move into contract management and price setting. You may prefer to remain in the technical stream. Orica engineers have also moved into marketing, bulk product management and many other areas within the company, including senior commercial management roles.
You may move into a people management role at one of our production sites, or into a reliability or shared services role requiring specialised project engineering skills. Engineering is often a skill that can be applied to science R&D roles. As Orica transforms into a solutions based, customer-focussed company, the experience of our engineering employees will, and already has, proven invaluable.