LPMA family welcomes another twenty vacation students

Commitment across our businesses to talent pipeline

The Liberty Primary Metals Australia (LPMA) Vacation Student Program continues to grow as it welcomed more new students across its operations in Australia.

Twenty new students were introduced to LPMA’s SIMEC Mining (Whyalla Iron Ore and Tahmoor Coking Coal) LIBERTY Bell Bay (Tasmania) and LIBERTY Primary Steel (Whyalla Steelworks) operations for the 2023-24 holiday season. 

The vacation students are in their penultimate year of university study ranging across engineering disciplines. During their three-month vacation program, they are assigned to a relevant area of the business to apply their theoretical knowledge, gain experience in an operational setting and work on projects in their respective fields. 

The students will complete their 3-month vacation placements from December through to February this year.

Head of Organisation Development for LPMA, Bianca Standing said the vacations students’ arrival at the business further demonstrates the businesses ongoing commitment to talent pipelines, and subsequently building future capability in our business and is also a feeder into our graduate program.

“This intake of vacation students will be assigned to relevant areas based on their disciplines, and will work on an improvement project during their placement” Bianca said.

The vacation students completed their onboarding processes during December which included presentations from senior leaders from the respective businesses.

Top right: Tahmoor students Lewis Cugaly (Human Resources) Anas Jaradat (Mining Engineering), Hagen Bossie (Electrical Engineering) Justin Smith (Mechanical Engineering). Main image: LBB students Lucy Ciguenza (Human Resources) and Agrim Saini (Electrical Engineer).

Whyalla Vacation Students – Back row: Chandra Patel, Sam Taylor, Bailey Schiller, Kade Morris. Front row: Rebecca Harris (Senior Workforce Development Advisor) Jonathan Richards, Sachin Pramod, Charles Gathiani, Katie Docking (Workforce Development Pipelines Advisor), Praveen Kumaravel and Denuwan Warantha Liyange.