Urban Utilities
2021 Urban Grad
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Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- $70,000 - $74,999 / Year
- 8 vacancies
- Apply by 31 Mar 2020
Starting full time in early Feb 2021, 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 and most importantly, bring about a positive change.
We're excited to offer opportunities to graduates from a range of disciplines.
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 Engineering is where to begin your career in the water industry. This program will help you work that out.
For the first time, we also offer a four-year program for Engineers (Civil, Mech and Elec) 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 with our design and contractor partners and we offer rotations in their teams on-site as well as ours. The exposure to all sides of infrastructure construction in this program is unrivalled!
Our third Urban Grad program is our hugely successful Data Analytic graduate program that kicked off in 2020. If you love all things data and you know how to bring it to life to hear the story it is telling you – we want you!
You will have the opportunity to work in four 6-month rotations around the business to analyse data and work with us to implement changes based on your findings.
We're looking for Maths, IT, Business or Commerce graduates for these opportunities.
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.