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AECOM New Zealand

3.9
  • 50,000 - 100,000 employees

2023 Water Engineer Graduate (Feb 2023)

Location details

On-site

  • New Zealand

    New Zealand

    • Canterbury

      Christchurch

Location

Christchurch

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Opportunity details

  • Opportunity typeGraduate Job or Program
  • SalaryNZD 55,000 - 64,000 / Year
  • Number of vacancies1 vacancy
  • Application open dateApply by 28 Jul 2022
  • Start dateStart date 19 Feb 2023

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team – 47,000 strong – driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Ideas have no borders and this ethos is embedded in our culture. Graduates – with their fresh thinking and passion for reimagining what’s possible – are critical to our success. As a graduate, you will have the chance to work alongside like-minded professionals and industry leaders on iconic projects that help shape and connect our cities and communities.

The Role

As a Graduate Water Engineer in the team, you will be involved all areas of waters design and planning. As an integrated team, we deliver water projects from inception through to construction. This requires working in multi-disciplinary teams to deliver local projects through to significant international projects. Each day will provide new opportunities and challenges, and overall, you can expect to::

  • Assist in data collection and analysis
  • Contribute to Design Studies
  • Field work
  • Being part of a waters design team for a project

Minimum Requirements

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Demonstrated time management and organisational skills
  • Self-motivated and eager to learn
  • Strong team player
  • A strong sense of commitment and a desire to work in a dynamic deadline-driven environment

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Engineering (Civil, Natural Resources or Process Engineering)

What We Offer

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit 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 using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

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. Join us and let’s get started.

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

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

user
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

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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.