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We’ve reimagined our graduate programme. We’ve said goodbye to rigid schedules and hello to a collaborative environment where you have the flexibility to pursue your passions, design, and fast track your career.
As part of a diverse team, you’ll collaborate with others across geographies and markets, applying your skills to re-imagine engineering and design a better future.
You will also work alongside industry leading professionals, mentors and peers. If you would like to experience numerous areas of Aurecon’s business, we can facilitate that too.
Your contributions will be valued and you will be applying your learning to some of the world's most complex projects:
You’ll be exposed to unique, challenging development opportunities that build skills and knowledge for a ‘future ready’ Aurecon. You’ll be sharing your learning journey with people across our entire organisation at all levels, across many geographies; as we believe that diversity makes for better learning.
At Aurecon, you’ll be supported in all areas of development, and encouraged throughout your career to ‘bring your ideas to life’. This is enabled by Aurecon U.
What is Aurecon U?
Aurecon U is our approach to learning which supports our employees to:
Learn together
Learn in the flow of work
Seek and share knowledge and wisdom
Learn through practice and feedback
What is the Blueprint Skills map?
Our Blueprint Skills Map is the framework which sits behind Aurecon U, with all learning associated with key areas of mastery:
Essential IQ
Client Mastery
Technical Mastery
Digital Mastery
Commercial Mastery
Leadership
Design to Innovate
The result is a comprehensive learning offering that is driven by you. Aurecon U puts you at the centre of your learning. As an emerging professional at Aurecon, your learning experience will be dynamic, continuous and relevant, supporting you to progress your career.
The Emerging Professionals Programme (EPP)
As a graduate, you’ll have access to Aurecon’s flexible Emerging Professionals Programme (EPP). It’s been developed specifically for graduates to give you the head-start needed to become a future ready professional. Through the programme, you will develop a strong foundation of relevant skills and experience to ensure a successful start to your career at Aurecon.
The modules of our EPP are designed along three key themes of development:
Work ready
This component focuses on helping you develop strong communication skills, build your personal brand, and broaden your network at Aurecon.
Collaboration
This component of the programme will help you understand the attributes of high-performing teams and develop your ability to collaborate with others for successful outcomes.
You will learn how to communicate with impact and how to use design thinking methodology to produce superior business and client outcomes.
Future ready
You will build on the skills you have developed during the earlier stages of the programme, whilst also examining future career pathways and options (including becoming a registered/chartered professional).
You will also further develop your resilience to change and your ability to communicate across all levels of our organisation.
The EPP learning is delivered through formal, interactive, and informal learning experiences.
Aurecon’s additional learning opportunities
Aurecon’s emerging professionals have access to development opportunities designed to help you become a recognised professional in your field and support you to realise your career aspirations. As part of the programme, you will have access to the development offerings below:
Education Assistance Programme
Aurecon recognises the importance and value of accessing best practice external development programmes and studies, to complement the differentiated, technical and professional learning offered in-house. We provide financial assistance and study leave for employees undertaking approved studies, supporting you in your ongoing professional development.
Design to Innovate Series
The Design to Innovate series focuses on how we can unlock our creativity, unpack complexity and explore what is possible to deliver better outcomes for our clients. The modules are delivered as interactive, classroom-based sessions and cover topics such as design-led thinking, innovation, problem definition, problem solving, visual communication and strategy development.
Developing future ready leaders
Aurecon recognises that businesses are differentiated by the strength of their leadership. We take leadership development seriously and invest in growing our industry’s best leaders. As you progress through your career, you will have access to learning designed to build capability in all areas of management and leadership, accessing a suite of offerings specifically designed to address your unique learning needs.
Digital learning and design training
Aurecon has chosen to partner with a leading online learning platform that will allow you to grow your digital and design capabilities in advanced parametric software.
You will have access to a growing course library with courses that range from basic to specialist learning across a wide range of subjects and software, such as:
The use of digital modelling tools like Revit, Rhino and InfraWorks
Automation and scripting in Python, Dynamo and Grasshopper
New design approaches and software impacting our industry such as Generative Design and Additive Manufacturing
Mentoring for Success Programme
Aurecon’s Mentoring for Success connects our people with experienced practitioners with the focus on building skills, sharing experiences and working towards clearly defined goals. Participants are supportive of one another, provide open and constructive feedback and challenge each other to continuously develop their professional practice. Our Emerging Professionals are supported in finding a mentor who will be able to help them achieve their goals and progress their careers at Aurecon.
Professional accreditation
Professional accreditation can bring immense benefits to both the individual and the organisation – officially recognising your technical expertise and professional excellence, while also enhancing Aurecon’s brand. Our emerging professionals are supported every step of the way to professional accreditation and have one professional membership paid for by Aurecon annually.
Project Management Excellence (pmX)
The Project Management Excellence programme is designed to provide aspiring and current Project Managers with the knowledge, skills and expertise to deliver exceptional Aurecon projects.
pmX is delivered via online, on-demand learning, complemented with instructor-led content which can be delivered in person or in a virtual environment. pmX assists learners in creating an individually tailored, competency-based, self-paced learning approach, designed to target areas of strength and further develop areas for improvement.
Let’s Talk – Performance for growth review framework
Aurecon’s performance process, Let’s Talk, is a conversation-based framework that enables you to align your contribution, professional development and career progress with Aurecon’s goals. It ensures transparency, consistency and equity in how we set and measure goals, and ultimately reward employees for their contribution. The simple, streamlined performance process is designed to facilitate meaningful conversations across the organisation that lead to strong performance outcomes.
The benefits of flexible work
Would you be happier if you had more say over how and when you work? Hack Triple J Podcast presenter Tom Tilly interviews Tara Ritchey from our Melbourne office, taking a look at the benefits of having a flexible work environment.
We have a global digital ideas platform that allows anyone to post an idea and seek funding.
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DIGITAL ANALYST
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Dan Hundscheidt
MECHANICAL ENGINEER
Having worked on the iconic Brisbane Ferry Terminals, Dan sees mechanical engineering as driving new urbanisation trends for a more sustainable future.
Limelight – Aurecon's emerging professional network
Aurecon has a network of proactive emerging professionals who actively promote a culture of innovation, involvement and improvement.
This network is called Limelight and they are the driving force behind many personal and professional development initiatives for our people. Limelight gives our emerging professionals from around our international offices a voice and this voice provides the crucial feedback loop that is needed within the business.
Close to 50 per cent of Aurecon’s people are classified as emerging professionals, making them a large part of our workforce.
While the main goal of Limelight is to enable emerging professional to lead rewarding and rich careers, a direct benefit to the business is that our emerging professionals are more passionate, driven and engaged in our clients’ projects and the communities in which we operate.
Management fully supports this initiative as the feedback sessions with senior leadership has opened their eyes to new ways of thinking, new ideas and the voice of the future thought-leaders of our company and within the wider industry.
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Meet our leaders
At Aurecon we believe humanity depends on engineering; and we recognise we have a broader stewardship role to play. Our CEO and senior leaders are collectively responsible for the strategic direction, growth and operations of Aurecon’s businesses and for ensuring our behaviour in the market aligns with our corporate values.
William Cox
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
William is Aurecon’s CEO, leading the organisation with a focus on rapid growth and continuing diversification across Digital, Advisory and Asia. William is a vocal advocate for equality and diversity in the workplace. He is Aurecon’s Pay Equity Ambassador for the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) and Aurecon’s representative for the Consult Australia Male Champions of Change.
Becoming the first female Executive Director on Aurecon’s Global Board in 2013, Louise is Aurecon’s global spokesperson for women in leadership. She has a passion for workplace diversity and the role it plays in innovation. She is also an advocate for female leadership and equality within STEM, receiving a high commendation for Female Champion of Change in Consult Australia’s Excellence Awards in 2016.
Maureen is responsible for leveraging 'design to innovate' principles at Aurecon to help fuel an innovation mindset and convey new value to clients. With over 30 years of experience capturing the collective value of design, she embeds the client experience as a strategic differentiator within Aurecon’s future ready strategy. Maureen is also the Chair of Design Australia and an Adjunct Professor at University of Technology Sydney.
MANAGING DIRECTOR, OPERATIONS – AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
Scott Powell is an advocate for mental health in the workplace and authentic leadership. He believes in cultivating inclusive workplaces through strong leadership, so people can be their healthiest and truest self. Scott is Aurecon’s executive sponsor for its ‘Mind Matters’ programme which provides mental health awareness education to all staff.
Angus is responsible for Aurecon’s operations in Australia’s states of South Australia and Victoria; and he is Aurecon’s Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) spokesperson. The RAP focuses on improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander representation in Aurecon, not only as part of the Company’s diversity ambitions, but also in recognition of its Indigenous Australian clients.
MANAGING DIRECTOR, ENERGY, RESOURCES & WATER – AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND
Paul is responsible for building Aurecon’s momentum as Australia’s leading engineering advisor to the energy sector and supporting the country’s transition to a lower-carbon future. Additionally, Paul is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia and uses his experience to help energy and resources clients create more sustainable industries.
