Put your education to work. At Teck, we have a range of opportunities for students to expand their knowledge and skills in a rapidly-expanding sector.
If you are driven to succeed, self-motivated and seeking a fast-paced, dynamic organization with extensive education and career development opportunities, you’ve come to the right place.
Summer Students
Each of our operations hires summer students to fill either operating, general labour or technical positions. Summer student employment provides you with practical experience to supplement your education.
Summer student positions are typically four months in duration, starting in May and ending in August.
To be considered for a summer student job you must be eligible to work in Canada, registered in a post-secondary program (university, college or technical institute) and you must be returning to school in the Fall semester.
Applications for summer student jobs are accepted in early January and the positions are typically filled by the end of February.
Co-op Terms and Internships
Teck hires co-op students each year to work at various operations. We offer you a diverse range of experience and relevant work to expand your learning.
We recruit from a number of universities across North America and across a broad range of disciplines including mining, mineral processing, chemical, civil, electrical, process control, metallurgical, environmental, and geological engineering as well as information systems and business management programs.
Co-op positions are normally posted on-line at your school through the Co-op Office and parallel the university schedules. Our co-op terms begin in January, May and September and run from four to sixteen months.
Teck offers a competitive salary, as well as a co-op reimbursement fee policy whereby we will reimburse you for each 4-month co-op work term up to a maximum of $700 on successful completion of your work term.
New Grads
If you want to realize your full potential and want challenging career opportunities then you have come to the right place. We recruit new graduate Engineers-In-Training (EIT's) from many North American universities with mining and metallurgy programs.
We offer a dynamic business environment, providing exciting jobs that will constantly challenge you to find technical and business solutions.
We are committed to developing our employees and provide the opportunity to participate in training programs, special project work, and cross-functional assignments.
And if you like to continuously learn, then why not get your MBA while working for us. Teck has partnered with Simon Fraser University to offer our employees business and management training that leads to an MBA.
Lifestyle is important to us. We operate in some of the most beautiful areas in North America…great recreational opportunities are literally at your doorstep.
Careers in Exploration
Teck continuously works to enhance our technical team through the addition of dedicated and discovery-driven geoscience professionals who “dare to dream”.
Teck has a diversified global team of geologists, geophysicists, geochemists, technicians and other key personnel, many of who are recognized leaders in their fields of expertise.
We consistently complement and enhance our exploration team by hiring and training motivated and enthusiastic geoscience students who are looking for experience and career opportunities with a diversified, multidisciplinary team.
Teck actively participates in a variety of ongoing professional development programs, conferences, and seminars geared at maintaining our leadership role in staff training.
If you are interested in joining a highly professional, dedicated, discovery-driven team we encourage you to contact us to discuss your interests.
Interview Tips
Teck uses a behavioural interviewing process. In behavioural interviews you will have the opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge, skills and abilities, collectively known as ‘competencies’, by giving specific examples from your past experiences. A behavioural interview gives you the opportunity to show a prospective employer why you are well suited for the job.
Navigating your way through these interviews successfully requires that you know yourself completely. In short, you must be able to:
- Analyze the type of positions for which you’re applying. What skills does it require?
- Analyze your own background. What skills do you have that relate to your job objective?
- Identify specific examples from your past experience where you demonstrated those skills. How can you “tell a story” about your use of particular skills or knowledge? Concentrate on developing complete answers based on your problem, action and result.
- Whenever possible, quantify your results. Numbers help illustrate your level of efficiency, effectiveness, productivity, authority and responsibility.
- Be prepared to provide examples of when results did not turn out as you had planned. What did you do then?
- Before starting the interview process, identify two to three of your top ‘selling points’ and determine how you will convey these points during the interview.
