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AECOM New Zealand

3.9
  • 50,000 - 100,000 employees

Transport Engineer - Graduate Program (Feb 2025)

Location details

On-site

  • New Zealand

    New Zealand

    • Waikato

      Hamilton

Location

Hamilton

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Opportunity details

  • Opportunity typeGraduate Job or Program
  • SalaryNZD 67000 / Year
  • Number of vacancies1 vacancy
  • Application open dateApply by 2 Jun 2024
  • Start dateStart date 18 Feb 2025

Company Description

We all leave a legacy. What will yours be?

We are a team of over 56,000 specialists working across 7 continents to deliver some of the world’s most influential and transformational infrastructure projects.

Along with our clients and partners, we have one goal: to leave a positive, lasting impact on people and our planet. We’re driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.  

At AECOM you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity and pioneering mindset are championed. You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion – a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work. You will be encouraged to bring your unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients, whilst being supported to develop your professional and technical skills.  

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts – planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers – leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future.

Our clients count on us to think without limits, partnering with them on projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, governments, public realm, energy and the environment, with a purpose to build legacies for generations to come. Graduates – with their fresh thinking and passion for reimagining what’s possible – are critical to our success.

Job Description

Our team covers all areas of transport planning, including linear transport feasibility studies, travel demand and mode shift assessments and strategies, pedestrian and cycling accessibility, master planning, and transport impact analysis of new built form.

As an integrated team, we provide design and planning advice from inception through to detailed design. We working alongside collaborate with engineers, architects, economists, urban designers, sustainability consultants, environmental planners, and master planners, often leading multi-disciplinary teams.

Responsibilities may include:

  • Assisting in data collection and analysis
  • Completing literature reviews and gap analyses
  • Supporting the planning and evaluation of future transport schemes and associated business cases
  • Reviewing drawings and documents including Transport Assessments, Travel Plans, Transport Strategies
  • Building simple transport models using various tools

Qualifications

Bachelor of Engineering with Honours (Civil) - final year or you have completed your studies within the previous two-year period

Please note that you need to submit your resume, a cover letter and the latest copy of your academic transcript (please submit all as one document).

Role start date is 19 Feb 2025

Additional information

Our Graduate Program

Our Growing Professional Skills (GPS) graduate program is designed to help you bridge the gap between formal education and the workplace. The program is spread across two years, drawing on a range of personal development activities, exposure to other graduates and business leaders, and a range of topics designed to grow your business and professional skills.

Along with local site visits, technical seminars, mentoring, and internal and external training, AECOM connects you with leading local and global networks that help you learn, grow, and develop.

As an added incentive, your involvement in the GPS program is fully endorsed for those seeking Professional accreditation. If you decide to do additional studies, we will help you examine your options and identify areas of specialisation to support you in your career.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM! Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.

Work rights

The opportunity is available to applicants in any of the following categories.

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New Zealand
New Zealand CitizenNew Zealand Permanent Resident

Qualifications & other requirements

You should have or be completing the following to apply for this opportunity.

Degree or Certificate
Qualification level
Qualification level
Bachelor or higher
Study field
Study field (any)

Hiring criteria

  • Experience requirementNo experience required
  • Working rights
    New Zealand Citizen
  • Study fields
    Engineering & Mathematics
  • Degree typesBachelor or higher
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Reviews

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Graduate
Auckland
6 months ago

As a graduate engineer my role is to support and learn from more senior engineers with project work.

user
Graduate
Christchurch
6 months ago

CAD work of smaller parts of projects. either tidying up drawings or making the design part 3d design with heavy supervision very occasional report writing

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Graduate
Auckland
6 months ago

My role is a graduate, my day-to-day responsibilities include site inspections, design of structures, structural detailing, meetings and workshops for projects.

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About the employer

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AECOM New Zealand

Rating

3.9

Number of employees

50,000 - 100,000 employees

Industries

Engineering Consulting

We all leave a legacy. What will yours be?

Pros and cons of working at AECOM New Zealand

Pros

  • The people. We have an amazing team of people that make it fantastic to come into work every day.

  • My peers, the type of projects that we work on, the graduate program, and the amount of support there is for graduates.

  • The support I get when learning new software and processes. They don't expect me to get it right the first time and allow me to ask a lot of questions.

  • Work culture, people and employee benefits.

  • Variety of work, Work flexibility, exciting projects.

Cons

    • It is still a job and occasionally has less enjoyable tasks to do.

    • No negatives so far

    • Timesheets

    • Occasional downtimes with no work, which has gotten better.

    • Unable to think of any worse thing.