Graduate Associate - Mining (Western Canada)

Date: 21 Aug 2025

Location: Kamloops, British Columbia, CA, V2C 1A9

Company: Orica

About Orica

Applications for Orica’s 2026 Leadership Development/Graduate Program in Canada are now open!

Ignite your career with a truly global organization and the world leader in mining explosives and civil blasting. Our two-year program for engineers provides diverse experience and personalized professional development. We are looking for engineers who are ready to embark on a career journey with us. One that gives you real responsibility, real diversity, and real opportunity. One that exposes you to all levels of the organization. One that will prepare you for an exciting long-term career. At Orica, our Graduate Program is a strategic priority for building leaders from within the organization. We are serious about your development and invest in a two-year program to give you the hands-on experience you want with the responsibility you have earned.

We are developing our next generation of leaders. This means we are serious about your development and creating meaningful career opportunities. We offer you the experience and exposure across our business to accelerate your learning and leadership capability.

At Orica, it’s the power of our people that leads change and shapes our futures. Every day, all around the world, our people help mobilise vital resources essential to progress. Established in 1874, we have grown to become the world leader in mining and civil blasting with a diverse of team of more than 13,000 across the world. From the production and supply of explosives, blasting systems, mining chemicals and geotechnical monitoring to our cutting-edge digital solutions and comprehensive range of services, we sustainably mobilize the earth’s resources.

It’s an exciting time to join us – we are shaping the future of mining through digital and automated technologies, embracing new ways of thinking, pioneering innovation and reimagining the way we work.

About the role

Our two-year Global Graduate Program offers engaging and diverse rotations to give you the experience you need to set your career up for success.

We believe it's important for our graduates to explore. So, we'll give you real responsibilities from day one so you can learn, grow, and develop with Orica. Discover a specialist role, a broad career-path, or even an unexpected future. We give you the tools and experience to flourish and shape your career, wherever you'd like to go.

What you will be doing

During the two-year graduate program, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge with coaching, on-the-job-training, and career management guidance. You will have your own personalized learning roadmap, to guide your experience and ensure your distinct potential is supported.

The Orica Graduate Program is focused on developing graduates across our core business units:

- Manufacturing

- Technology

- Mining Services

Our graduates rotate throughout the different areas of our business. These 8- or 12-month core rotations are designed to give you a solid foundation for your professional development and prepare you as you transition into your professional career.

Degrees and Disciplines

Orica accepts graduates from a range of engineering disciplines including –

- Mining Engineering

- Chemical Engineering

Eligibility

- Be eligible to work within Canada with no sponsorship

- Be in your final year of your university undergraduate degree or have completed your degree within the last year

- Be willing to undergo a pre-employment background check, medical and drug screen

- Be willing to relocate multiple times during your first two years for each rotation, likely in remote locations across Canada

- Be living in Canada and be able to attend selection stages in person if required

- Be eligible to drive a motor vehicle in Canada

- Possess a valid drivers’ license (class 5) - this position requires travelling

Open to a- date of June 2026

What we offer

Projected careers after the graduate program:

- Site leadership

- Account Management

- Technical Services

- Process and Product Implementation Support

- Project Management

- Safety

- Plant based integrity, reliability, technical and process safety engineering

- Supply Chain

- Operations Management

Date

June 2026

As part of a truly global company, you will have the ability to grow and learn in a diverse, collaborative culture. We foster relationships and learning through connected global and local teams, promote flexible and diverse career paths and support the development of your knowledge and skills.

You will be paid a competitive salary, learn from talented individuals across multiple disciplines and be able to thrive in a safe workplace within a collaborative culture. Ignite your career at a place where your distinct potential can find its home.

Benefits

- Medical on the first day worked. Basic module paid by the employer.

- Dental on the first day worked. Basic module paid by the employer.

- Life, Disability and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance

- Short and Long Term Disability.

- Retirement / Defined Contribution Pension Plan (DCPP).

- Holidays - twelve nationally and/or provincially recognized holidays per calendar year.

- Paid Time Off.

We respect and value all

Orica promotes and fosters a culture of inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment everywhere we operate. We treat our people and applicants with fairness, dignity, and respect, getting the best of everyone’s contributions. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, nationality, age, military or veteran, marital or disability status.

Orica is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture where our people feel engaged, respected, and connected.

We have been made aware that some individuals have received scam emails which include false and invalid offers of employment from Orica. Please note that Orica will not offer employment to any candidate without first undertaking a formal application and recruitment process. All candidates are required to actively participate in the recruitment process applicable to the specific role and location where the role is based, prior to any offer of employment being made.