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Graduate Civil Engineer - Queenstown 

Are you a new graduate (or soon to graduate in 2024) with a civil engineering tertiary qualification and aspirations to develop and grow in a collaborative and supportive environment, then join Stantec’s 2024-2025 Graduate Programme! 

Fantastic perks we provide: 

• Engineering NZ accredited 2-year graduate development programme 
• NZD69,000 base salary with company benefits on top such as insurances, spot bonuses banking discounts etc 
• You will be connected to our international Young Professionals Group Network with opportunities for training and networking across New Zealand and Australia.  
• You will be supported through your Engineering New Zealand Accreditation and mentored for your own personal career development.  
• Possibility to travel overseas via a developing professional’s exchange 
• Flexible working environments and excellent employee benefits 

What do our Graduate Civil Engineers do? 

As a Graduate Civil Engineer based in Stantec’s Queenstown office, you will experience a generalist approach to civil engineering with exposure to a wide range of disciplines including water/wastewater/stormwater, structures, geotechnical, transport, and land development. You will contribute to providing designs, calculations, reporting, construction monitoring, and advice for our clients around the region and nationally.  

This will enable you to learn the “big picture” of projects and how all the individual disciplines fit in and work together. In addition, you will also gain an understanding of the design process from a consultancy side, and know the general steps required to take a project from concept right through to construction documentation followed by construction contract management.  

Some of the exciting projects our Queenstown team is working on: 

• Transport safety improvements throughout the district 
• Land development and community enhancement  
• Water/wastewater/stormwater upgrades and renewals 
• Skifield infrastructure from chairlifts through to wastewater treatment 
• New and upgrades of cycle trails throughout the district 
• Recreation structures (such as bridges, huts, viewing platform) and supporting infrastructure (such as toilets/wastewater management) in remote locations throughout New Zealand 

What you will bring 

You will be a recent graduate with a Civil Engineering tertiary qualification ready to kick start your professional engineering career! You are motivated, pragmatic, and have an appetite for learning and gaining experience across various disciplines.  

You will have a strong interest in water engineering, and as we are to improving the world we live in, seizing the environmental challenges that we all face and coming up with solutions that will benefit generations to come.   

Our Queenstown team is made up of outdoor enthusiasts who enjoy getting out and making the most of everything Queenstown has to offer. You will fit right in if you enjoy the Queenstown lifestyle and is passionate about the collaborative and supportive team culture that the Queenstown office offers. 

To be eligible to apply you must: 

• Be a recent graduate or due to complete your tertiary education in 2024 
• Preferably have a current restricted or full driving licence 
• Working Rights in New Zealand (Student Visa holder, convertible to post study open work visa, Permanent Resident OR Citizen) 

Application Advice and Tips 

Refer to our CV and Cover Letter advice on Prosple.  

Applications close 29th March 2024 

About Stantec 

The Stantec community unites approximately 28,000 employees working in over 400 locations across six continents. We collaborate across disciplines and industries to bring water, transport and infrastructure projects to life. Our work from initial project concept and planning through design, construction and commissioning is built on a nearly 200-year history. So, when we take on a project, we see the opportunity to make a lasting connection with the people and places where we live and work. 

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