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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

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• qal.au/working-with-us/entry-level-programs/graduate-program/