Graduate Program, Commercial

Ready to drive meaningful change? We’re looking for passionate individuals to join our team and help us tackle the challenges shaping our future. At Rio Tinto, we believe innovation thrives when diverse minds collaborate toward a common purpose – creating a sustainable and better tomorrow. Let’s shape the future, together. 

Finding better ways™ to provide the materials the world needs.

We’re inviting graduates and students from a wide range of degrees to join us in various areas across our business, including: 

• Engineering- All degrees including Metallurgy, Process or Chemical, Electrical, Control Systems, Mechatronics

• Sciences- Health & Safety, Environment, New energy related

• Business- All degrees including economics, Finance, Commercial, Sales Marketing

• Technology- Data Science, Data Analytics, Automation Software, Computing, Robotics

Work location

Shanghai, China

About the programs 

Our Graduate offer you the chance to help shape Rio Tinto from within. The Graduate Program extends over two years, focusing on developing both foundational and future-focused skills, leading to permanent positions in the organization.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, thinking, and hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress. 

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority

• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program

• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees

• Attractive share ownership plan

• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions

• Ongoing individual wellbeing support

• Leave for everything life throws at us (annual leave, paid parental leave, sick leave, carer’s leave)

• Exciting multicultural working environment

Where you will be working

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For more than 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers –generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress. Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminum – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Since establishing the first office in Beijing over 40 years ago with just three people, Rio Tinto has built partnerships with China that span supply, innovation, capability building, culture and procurement. It's a relationship that has been transformative for Rio Tinto and continues to make a significant contribution to China’s growth story.

The company’s history in China stretches back over a century, when Rio Tinto made the first borates sales to the country. Since 1973 when Rio Tinto was one of the first foreign companies to export iron ore to China, it has shipped over 4 billion tonnes of the commodity, more than any other mining company. This extraordinary volume has been driven in large part by the pioneering joint ventures and partnerships that the company has forged in recent decades.

Eligibility   

Graduate Program – final year of study/have recently graduated with less than 2 years of relevant work experience

Next steps   

There’s no better time to drive change than with the leaders of tomorrow, and it all begins with a Graduate at Rio Tinto. Apply today. 

Please note, to be considered for this role, you must complete all pre-screening questions.    

Applications close 31 May 2025 

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About Rio Tinto
 

Rio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.
 

We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.

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