Urban Utilities
2022 Graduate Program
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Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- Apply by 31 Mar 2021
Discover what you can do with your degree!
We're looking for movers and shakers to be part of our graduate program.
Starting full time in early Feb 2022, we offer two and four-year Graduate Programs that will see you rotating through key business areas. In each rotation, you'll be overcoming real-life challenges and taking on meaningful assignments. You'll make new contacts, work on different projects, overcome different challenges and most importantly, bring about a positive change. This is just the start of your career with a company that is enriching the quality of life - every day.
We're excited to offer opportunities to graduates from a range of disciplines including Engineering (Chemical/Process, Environmental, Civil, Mechanical and Electrical), Maths, Business and IT.
The two-year Engineering graduate program is designed for emerging professional Engineers who know they want to pursue a career in the water industry and want to find out everything about it! These experiences are designed to help you understand where your particular skills and interests best fit within the different types of roles that are on offer – from modelling to analysis, optimisation to design, corporate risk to procurement – one of the hardest decisions you have to make as an Urban Grad is where to begin your career. This program will help you work that out!
For the first time, we also offer a four-year program for Construction Engineers focused on a career in infrastructure construction. We are in the unique position to be able to offer you rotations in every aspect of construction from feasibility studies, through design and build to hand over of major infrastructure projects. We do this by working side by side our design partners and offering rotations in their teams as well as ours.
Due to the huge success of our Data Analytic Grad program that kicked off in 2020, we will again be offering places to Graduates who love all things data! If you know how to bring our data to life and can hear the story it is telling you – we want you! You will have the opportunity to work in four teams around the business to analyse data and work with us to implement changes based on your findings.
Information Services Graduates look no further! Our structured program will see you working with our Solution Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Information Architecture and Integration Architecture teams. On completion of the two-year program, you will have a wide range of options to chose where to take your career next.
Is this you?
- Willing to challenge the status quo;
- Displays a strong customer and community focus, demonstrating the ability to build and maintain relationships;
- Flexible, adaptable and willing to deal with change, challenge and ambiguity; and
- Digitally savvy and a skilled problem solver with solid analytical skills
Why join Urban Utilities?
You'll get to work with experienced professionals who will mentor and develop you to become the best you can be. You can expect to develop your networks, collaborate with specialists, learn from mentors and work on exciting projects with all of our business groups, along with our Innovation and R&D team.
We're not your regular water and sewerage service - we pride ourselves on innovation and this earned us a spot in BRW's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies List for 2015 and 2018. Our Innovation Program is delivering operational efficiencies, improved safety practices, enhanced customer outcomes and improvements to our workplace culture. Our focus is on exceptional customer experience, which aligns with our purpose of enriching the quality of life and making a positive difference in our customers' lives.
Our employees enjoy a range of benefits – from flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance, career development opportunities, generous maternity and paternity leave – just to name a few. If you're interested in joining a great team in a forward-thinking organisation, gaining exposure to a range of leading-edge technologies and being part of a team that's committed to excellence, apply now!
Eligibility criteria:
- You must be a recent graduate having completed your degree in the last 24 months or be about to graduate this year; and
- An Australian or New Zealand citizen or an Australian permanent resident
The assessment process will include online profiling, an assessment centre, face to face interviews and background checks. We can't wait to meet you!
For queries, email the Talent Acquisition team on careers@urbanutilities.com.au.
Reviews
The rotation based grad program is an excellent, structured way to experience different parts of the business but within the individual rotations there is no set structure, so the experience can vary significantly. I have no specific role or set day to day responsibilities, and the projects I've been tasked with were to solve some basic but important, long standing problems that have never been addressed for one reason or another. The finnicky, manual, time consuming work had little to do with my skills acquired during my studies and, while interesting, did little to help me grow my skills and capabilities.
I have a lot of down time and feel my technical skills are not being utilized effectively. This seems to be the consensus with other graduates
Support the business with data analytics
About the employer
Urban Utilities
4.3
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Energy & Utilities
Urban Utilities, a statutory authority, delivers retail water supply & wastewater services in Queensland.
Pros and cons of working at Urban Utilities
Pros
The people at UU are very friendly and happy to help.
The support they have given us Graduates. They really care about us and are investing a lot into making sure we not only succeed, but also have a positive experience.
Urban Utilities is extremely flexible with ways of working...there is a great culture here that emphasizes work/life balance.
The interviews and assessments were very casual, friendly and unstructured yet professional. I felt equal opportunity to showcase my strength while also being relaxed and showing personality.
The company also heavily prioritises internal job applications before going out to market externally. The opportunity to build rapport and showcase your skills before applying for a job gives me extreme confidence and comfort in being able to move up along the ranks.
Cons
There’s opportunity for our corporate and operational functions to collaborate more.
A lot of people to go through approval when it comes to new projects/work. A bit of a slower turnaround on things.
The rotation-based grad program is an excellent, structured way to experience different parts of the business but within the individual rotations there is no set structure, so the experience can vary significantly.
Some teams can be quite closed off and only function within their space.
Lack of organisation across multiple business areas and systemic inaction.