Graduate Opportunities

Our achievements depend on genuine partnerships with employees, customers, shareholders, local communities and other stakeholders - partnerships based on integrity, cooperation, transparency and mutual value creation.

Our commitment to genuine partnerships requires that we work:

• Ethically
• Responsibly
• Openly
• Together and with others

Vacation placement opportunities
We offer vacation work placements to selected students. When we provide vacation projects for our students, we look at a range of factors, such as the quality of work offered, supervision and development opportunities. The work students do on our vacation placements is real and is undertaken in a supportive environment with the help of an experienced team.

University scholarships
Xstrata offers scholarships to undergraduate students to support study from and including second year until completion of the program. The scholarships are aimed at students whose studies are related to careers in the mining industry. The value of the scholarship is $10,000 per annum and additionally we provide paid vacation work from December to February for each year the scholarship is held.

Our Vacation and Scholarship programs are an amazing opportunity allowing students to build relationships and networks within the mining industry which will foster growth, development and a natural progression into a career in mining.

What we offer graduates
The Xstrata Graduate Program has been designed with the aim of developing balanced and creative individuals with an enthusiasm for site work and the opportunity to apply and develop core disciplinary skills as a critical part of their career development.

The program offers a supportive environment and a constant learning curve to put skills into practice. Competitive remuneration is offered to successful candidates. The program is based on the real job requirements of the mine sites and business units and the individual needs of each graduate.