Intern Mechanical Engineer

Intern Program 2026/2027 – Mechanical Engineer – Gove, NT

Ready to drive meaningful change? We’re on the lookout for passionate individuals who are eager 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 better tomorrow. Let’s shape the future together.

Finding better ways™ to move our people forward.

Start your career as an Intern Mechanical Engineer at Gove in the Northern Territory, where you’ll gain experience at a site transitioning through closure and long term rehabilitation. We’re looking for penultimate year or 2nd or 3rd year students studying a minimum bachelors degree in Engineering or Mechanical Engineering who want exposure to a different phase of the asset lifecycle and the opportunity to contribute to meaningful work during this transition. At Gove, you may work on a FIFO basis from Brisbane, Cairns or Darwin, or in a residential role, supporting activities that focus on safety, asset management, closure planning and rehabilitation. This is a chance to work alongside experienced professionals, understand how large industrial sites are responsibly closed, and build skills that are highly transferable across mining, processing and infrastructure environments.

About the program

Our Intern Program offers you the chance to help shape Rio Tinto from within. The 12-week Summer Internship Program provides hands-on experience, with the potential to secure a graduate position upon completion.

What we offer

Be recognised

Intern Program 2026/2027 – Mechanical Engineer – Gove, NT

Ready to drive meaningful change? We’re on the lookout for passionate individuals who are eager 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 better tomorrow. Let’s shape the future together.

Finding better ways™ to move our people forward.

Start your career as an Intern Mechanical Engineer at Gove in the Northern Territory, where you’ll gain experience at a site transitioning through closure and long term rehabilitation. We’re looking for penultimate year or 2nd or 3rd year students studying a minimum bachelors degree in Engineering or Mechanical Engineering who want exposure to a different phase of the asset lifecycle and the opportunity to contribute to meaningful work during this transition. At Gove, you may work on a FIFO basis from Brisbane, Cairns or Darwin, or in a residential role, supporting activities that focus on safety, asset management, closure planning and rehabilitation. This is a chance to work alongside experienced professionals, understand how large industrial sites are responsibly closed, and build skills that are highly transferable across mining, processing and infrastructure environments.

About the program

Our Intern Program offers you the chance to help shape Rio Tinto from within. The 12-week Summer Internship Program provides hands-on experience, with the potential to secure a graduate position upon completion.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your 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

• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual and sick leave)

• Exclusive employee discounts

Where you will be working

Our Gove site in Australia’s Northern Territory has been supplying the global aluminium industry with world-class bauxite for more than 40 years.

Gove bauxite is shipped internationally as well as domestically to supply Queensland Alumina Limited and Yarwun refineries in Gladstone, Queensland. These refineries produce alumina as feedstock for our Australian aluminium smelting operations and for sale on the international market.

We expect our bauxite mining operations in the Gove Peninsula will cease later this decade and we are doing significant work to support closure of the operation.

Eligibility

• Intern Program – penultimate year or students in 2nd or 3rd year

• Have the right to work in Australia or New Zealand (citizens, permanent residents, student or postgraduate work visa holders)

Next steps

We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

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

Applications close 17 April 2026

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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.

Respect and Inclusion

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ 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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