2025 CIMIC Group Graduate Program - CPB Contractors Tunnelling (Health & Safety)

Be part of the Award Winning CIMIC Graduate Program

CIMIC Group invests in future leaders by providing graduates with exposure to a global organisation across multiple industries. The CIMIC Group graduate program gives graduates the opportunity to learn and develop while working on some of the world’s most iconic construction, mining, mineral processing, services, and public private partnership projects – you’ll be part of something BIGGER.

Graduates enter the program working at one of the CIMIC Group Operating Companies: CPB Contractors, Leighton Asia, Sedgman, UGL or EIC Activities. Over the course of the program, rotations and industry exposure activities are also available at CIMIC and Pacific Partnerships.

Graduates receive structured, on-the-job training, guided learning plans and leadership mentoring. Over the two-year program, you will experience two one-year rotations with placements in various roles, projects or CIMIC Group companies.

Your future starts here!

CPB Contractors is Australia’s leading contractor and the largest infrastructure construction company in our region. Part of the CIMIC Group, we are proud to be constructing Australia’s future and do so collaboratively with our partners and clients.

We hire for careers, not project life. CPB Contractors has more than 50 major infrastructure projects in delivery, across all key sectors of the construction industry, including roads and bridges, rail, tunnelling, defence, airports, buildings and resources, providing you with career opportunities for years to come.

The Tunnelling and Major Projects division has projects across Australia, therefore, a willingness to relocate to another state or region is required. 

CPB Contractors is now looking across Australia and New Zealand for students or recent graduates in the following disciplines:

• Engineering (civil, mechanical, electrical)
• Health & Safety
• Environment
• Sustainability
• Human Resources
• Communications
• Finance

To be successful in this program, you will have the capability to:

• Learn new skills, be flexible and adaptive
• Work autonomously and as part of a team
• Innovate and propose creative solutions
• Communicate, advise and present confidently
• Influence outcomes through excellent stakeholder engagement
• Deliver high quality outcomes, be outcome driven and self-motivated
• Relocate to various sites and projects, as required by program rotations

CIMIC Group is an equal opportunity employer, committed to diversity in the workplace.

Applications are open to all Australian citizens and permanent residents, and New Zealand citizens.