Graduate - Heritage

• 2 Year Graduate Program commencing 2026
• Permanent employment opportunity
• Performance, Retention and Profit Share bonuses
• Company contribution to private health insurance

Are you ready to launch your career in cultural heritage? Hancock Iron Ore is offering an exciting opportunity for a motivated graduate to join our Corporate Affairs team as a Graduate Heritage. This role is perfect for someone passionate about preserving cultural heritage, working with Traditional Owners, and contributing to meaningful projects across Western Australia’s Pilbara region.

As part of our heritage and native title team, you’ll gain hands-on experience in heritage administration, logistics, surveys, mapping, compliance activities, and stakeholder engagement. You’ll work closely with experienced professionals, Traditional Owner groups, pastoralists, and internal teams to ensure the respectful and timely management of cultural heritage matters.

This is a unique opportunity to start your career in a role that blends fieldwork, community engagement, and heritage preservation — all while being part of a supportive team that values respect, collaboration, and professional growth.

In this role, you will gain exposure to:

• Providing heritage advice and supporting approvals processes across a variety of projects
• Coordinating logistics and mobilisation for Traditional Owner site visits and heritage surveys
• Conducting fieldwork, investigations, and reporting on cultural heritage matters, including statutory approvals
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with native title groups, pastoralists, and internal stakeholders
• Supporting native title commitments and contributing to land access and approval processes
• Preparing and maintaining accurate heritage records, maps, and reports
• Actively participating in fieldwork with a strong focus on health, safety, and environmental best practice

About you:

• A recent tertiary qualification (within the last two years or completing by December 2025) in archaeology, anthropology, cultural heritage management, or a related discipline
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, with the ability to build rapport and positively influence stakeholders
• Solid organisational and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple tasks
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and a graduate-level understanding of GIS software, with report writing capability
• An understanding of Indigenous culture, values, and relevant heritage or native title legislation, with archaeological survey experience highly regarded
• A current Class C driver’s licence and willingness to travel to site locations as required

About Hancock Iron Ore
The world of iron ore is evolving, and so are we. Atlas Iron and Roy Hill have joined forces to become Hancock Iron Ore, building on our combined strengths of resilience and innovation. 

Our portfolio of world-class iron ore operations located in West Australia’s Pilbara region has a strong history of delivering reliable products for our customers in key international markets. As one team under Hancock Iron Ore, we have four operating mines: Roy Hill, Miralga Creek, Sanjiv Ridge, and Mount Webber, with McPhee Creek under construction plus a range of exciting development opportunities.

We deliver more than 70 million tonnes of ore each year through our own two-berth port facility at Stanley Point and the multi-user Utah Point in Port Hedland, providing the materials needed to foster global economic growth and development. Leveraging established infrastructure, including our processing plant and 344km independently owned and operated heavy haul railway, our operation oversees each moment from when ore is mined through to when it is shipped.

Equal Opportunity

Hancock Iron Ore is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages Indigenous Australians, Veteran personnel and females to apply. We promote cultural diversity, gender equality and non- discrimination. We are proud of our relationships with our Traditional Owners and value the difference these partnerships make to the success of the project and to the lives of the people on whose land we operate.

How to apply

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To be eligible to apply for this role you must be legally permitted to work permanently in Australia.

Please note that unsolicited applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.