Intern Industrial Hygiene

• Rio Tinto named Canada's Top 100 Employer & Canada's Top Employer for Young People for 3 consecutive years

• Get real work experience at one of the largest mining and metal companies in the world, focused on safety and inclusion
• Work with the newest technology and innovation, in an environment where we challenge you to drive positive change
• 4-month summer internship

About the role

We are offering an internship opportunity our Health & Safety Environment team in Kitimat - BC at Rio Tinto Aluminium group facility

The Intern will be responsible for the following:

• Industrial hygiene exposure assessments, data entry, analysis and report writing, including:
  • Sampling for chemical, biological, physical and ergonomic hazards;
  • Working with laboratories (shipping samples, sample consultation, results review and input);
• Laboratory preparation of sample materials (calibrating, weighing, cassette preparation)
• Communication of sampling results to area management and affected employees
• Hazardous material risk assessment and management
• Confined space hazard assessments
• Health management program review, including updating and communicating policies and training packages
• Auditing, Legal compliance and application of corporate standards
• Working with area management and employees to mitigate at-risk situations
• Involvement in health-related incident investigations

Project opportunities exist within any of the aforementioned tasks. The candidate, Industrial Hygiene Team Lead, and university project supervisors will pick the most suitable project for the candidate.
Your contribution

• At least one year completed in a master's level Industrial Hygiene program
• Fundamental understanding of industrial hygiene principles and sampling methodologies
• Good communication skills and ability to work in a team and independently
• Good computer skills including Microsoft Word, Excel, Office and PowerPoint. Ability to perform statistical analysis is an asset
• Integrity & Leadership skills
• Eagerness to learn and ready for the challenge ahead
• Driver's license

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A competitive salary
• An ambitious, exciting, and rewarding experience
• Opportunity to build relationships with the Rio Tinto team and community
• A great chance to prepare yourself to join our Graduate Development Program
• A relocation allowance and a premium are offered for students outside the region

About Rio Tinto

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 nearly 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 aluminium 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.

Where will you be working?

Rio Tinto's BC Works is a part of the Atlantic Operations of the Aluminium product group and has been operating in British Columbia for over 65 years. With industry leading new technology and four generations of employee expertise, as well as our hydropower facility at Kemano and the Nechako Reservoir, the Kitimat smelter is one of the world's most competitive aluminium smelters, producing aluminium with one of the lowest carbon footprints in the industry.

Rio Tinto is proud to operate in BC alongside our 1,000 employees, partners, community stakeholders and First Nations, and we look forward to the next 60 years.

To learn more about our Aluminium Operations, check out this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=25&v=CTp1jkRKeBI
Every Voice Matters
At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 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.

We are seeking to increase the diversity across our operations in order to improve equal opportunity outcomes for our employees and encourage female applicants to apply.

Applications close on February 7th (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date). Applications received will be assessed over the following weeks.

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

All progress begins with pioneers at Rio Tinto, it begins with you.