Civil Undergraduate Program

As an undergraduate, you will have the chance to work alongside graduates, technical experts, and industry leaders. You will gain exposure to iconic projects that help shape and connect our cities and communities. This will be a fantastic opportunity to build long-term meaningful connections for your career’s.

There is also a potential to progress to a permanent graduate role with us.

DURATION: November 2023 – February 2024 (12 weeks)

The career opportunities at AECOM are endless! As you progress through our recruitment process, you will be prompted to choose your preferred role and location, along with a second and third choice.

Below are the Civil opportunities available in Brisbane:

• Undergraduate Civil Engineer (Highways)
  The team delivers a range of different projects working with funding agencies, national and local governments, highways authorities and private organisations. Work on projects from initial concept through to construction and operation, fulfilling diverse design, project management, stakeholder engagement, business innovation as well as technical and site assurance roles. Every project faces unique challenges, and we take pride in developing inspired, sustainable solutions for our clients. Our collaborative and integrated approach allows us to create, rehabilitate and maintain many of the world’s iconic roadways. AECOM’s highway and roads experience includes: Highways design and construction services including: Geometrics, barriers, accessibility, shared use facilities; Emergency roadway fast-track design; Feasibility and corridor studies; Pavement design and analyses; Drainage design and stormwater management. We are currently engaged in a variety of large to mega projects as well as smaller more intricate projects – all offering a broad spectrum of opportunities. Being multi-disciplinary projects, great opportunities to broaden horizons and gain holistic and all of project experience.
  
• Undergraduate Civil Engineer (Rail)
  Plan, design and engineer rail infrastructure to support rail operations, and work developing new corridors, expanding current ones and exploring ways to enhance shared use of limited transportation corridors among freight, transit and commuter rail. Work on:
  • Analysis and calculation for components to support the technical deliverables;
  • Contribute to the multidisciplinary engineering and design teams by applying your knowledge and skills including ‘soft’ skills
  
• Undergraduate Civil Engineer (Water)
  The team delivers a range of projects and you will be involved in our Multi-modal Transport, Three Waters, and Asset Engineering disciplines. Broadly the responsibilities will include assisting our Senior Engineers in civil design, and specifications for our projects, site supervision, health and safety requirements, preparing quotes and preparing information for proposals, and managing project resources. Our local projects are spread across New Zealand and Australia, with frequent opportunities to work on international projects as your career progresses. Undergraduates will work with high performing senior engineers and technical members of our team. Learn and grow into interest areas aligned with the AECOM business to become a capable technical team member that is key to our delivery teams. It typically involves providing engineering services to our clients across the whole spectrum of a project lifecycle – from ideation through to construction and operation. Engineers are key to understanding the technical problems and working with the team to design great solutions for our projects that can be delivered in the real world
  
• Undergraduate Water Resources Engineer
  Our team covers all areas of water engineering, from strategic water planning, infrastructure design, flood modelling, drainage design and water quality. As an integrated team, we provide design and planning advice from inception through to detailed design, often working alongside other engineers, scientists, architects and master planners in multi-disciplinary teams. Responsibilities may include: • Assisting in data collection and analysis • Undertaking hydrological, hydraulic and network modelling using various modelling tools • Undertaking calculations for concept and detailed design of various water infrastructure • Providing input to design reports and surface water assessments.
  
• Undergraduate Structural Engineer
  As part of this role you will be given the opportunity to work on a variety of interesting projects, offering you the chance to combine your technical skills, develop client relationship management with a project delivery focus. Working with a broad range of clients, you will be involved in key stakeholder engagement processes, contributing to the growth of our business. Great opportunity to work with leaders in the industry.

To ensure you select the roles that best suit your background, interests and discipline, please visit our job opportunities document on our website. You may want to save this document for future reference.