Your role
Are you a recent graduate eager to kick-start your career and have a deep interest in Geotechnics? The QAL Graduate Development Program (GDP) offers a transformative two-year journey starting January 2025, designed to equip you with essential skills for success at QAL.
Reporting to the Tailings Superintendent, you will:
- Ensure adherence to health, environmental, and community policies.
- Develop deep insights into the tailings management and TSF operations.
- Own and manage the day-to-day tailings deposition schedule.
- Provide technical support to maintenance teams and contribute to site engineering standards.
- Provide technical support to the technical team and production advisor during review and development of procedures and long/short term plans.
- Manage Tailings Storage Facility data and report when required to different stakeholders.
About you
Requirements
- Completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Geologist / Geotechnical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering with an interest in Geotechnics or equivalent in the last 2 years or with an anticipated completion date before December 2024.
- A commitment to diversity, environment, health, safety, and society.
- Strong communication, initiative, and problem-solving skills.
- Process-oriented with a drive for continuous improvement.
- Demonstrated experience in geotechnical/civil data analysis would be advantageous.
- Experience preparing and reviewing technical reports.
Compensation & benefits
They know there are many important aspects of their employees’ lives, and work is only one of these, so QAL offers a wide range of benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These include:
- Competitive salary package with annual performance bonus
- Domestic relocation assistance
- Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family
- Yaralla lifestyle membership provides for the free use of multiple gyms, the town pool, the cinemas and golf courses
- Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
Training & development
The Graduate Development Program offers a personalized development plan and a support network of subject-matter experts through coaching and mentoring. This provides a wide range of learning opportunities, including industry-specific training, professional development, and networking, while participants learn on-the-job skills in a fast-paced and supportive environment. Graduates engage in a structured program with induction and field placements throughout the plant to consolidate theoretical knowledge and gain practical experience in operational and project environments.
Source
The following source was used in researching this page:
- qal.au/working-with-us/entry-level-programs/graduate-program/