Power Transmission and Distribution Graduate (Jan 2025)

Want to bring ideas to life? 
 
This is a very exciting time for you - full of endless possibilities. It's important to choose a company whose purpose aligns with your own. Aurecon's highly awarded graduate programme has all that covered and more. 
 
We are looking for Electrical & Power Systems Engineering Graduates to be based in the following locations: 

• Tāmakai Makaurau / Auckland 
• Tauranga 
• Hamilton 
• Wellington

This role will sit in the Energy & Industrial business unit.  

What is Power Transmission & Distribution at Aurecon? 

Power Transmission & Distribution business, where you will play an integral part in a team of highly skilled specialists that ‘bring ideas to life’ for our clients. Working within a multi-disciplinary team of professionals based across the offices in New Zealand on wide variety of projects of our Energy & Industrial service group, getting exposure to varied and challenging projects locally in New Zealand and in Australia 

What are we looking for from you?  
 
1. You'll be ready to make an impact. You would have graduated or be graduating soon with a formal qualification. You will need to have the ability to work on a full-time basis from February 2025. 
 
2. We'll need you to have any of these degrees: Bachelor in Electrical/Power Systems Engineering (Hons) (or equivalent) 

3. You would have studied following subjects or areas of focus: 

• Power Systems 
• Electrical Engineering Design 
• Control systems 
• Engineering Mathematics 
• Engineering Electromagnetics

4. And you will bring: 

• Passion for changing the way we deliver carbon neutrality and sustainability in everything we do. 
• Ability to initiate and build relationships with both your peers and clients to push forward the boundaries of what is possible. 
• Enthusiasm for re-imagining engineering and be someone that actively pursues continuous learning to help shape the future. 
• Excitement about your journey with Aurecon. 

Think you know Aurecon? You may be surprised. 

Joining Aurecon means you’ll be at the award-winning edge of innovation and sustainability. AFR ranked us Top 5 among sustainability leaders and Top 3 of all Australasian innovative companies in professional services.  In 2021, we won Engineering New Zealand’s Innovation and Diversity awards and in 2022 we were named in the New Zealand LinkedIn overall Top 25 Companies list.   

We'’ve been recognised for our innovation culture, gender equality and our LGBTI+ inclusion, including being the first engineering company in Aotearoa New Zealand to receive the Rainbow Tick and the Gender Tick. Our He Rautaki Māori (Maori Strategy) won two Good Design Awards in 2022 for its outstanding contributions in bringing He Rautaki Māori and digital innovation into operations and decision-making processes. Bring your whole self to work! 

Aurecon’s strength has always been our people. It’s our people who build our shared purpose and bring ideas to life. It’s our people who imagine and co-create with our clients a better future for people and the planet. Of course, you’ll probably know lots of our award-winning projects.   

The Fonterra transition to a resilient, low-emissions economy with their new biomass boiler at their Waitoa Factory, that was us. 

The O Mahurangi (Penlink), two-lane road for walking and cycling provide better, safer, more reliable transport options in Northern Auckland. That was us.  

Murdoch University’s Boola Katitjin, which is the first mass-engineered-timber (MET) building in Western Australia? Yes, that was us too. 

And the Tseung Kwan O Interchange in Hong Kong that improved the district’s accessibility amid increasing transport demand? You guessed it, us. 

Ready to bring ideas to life? 
 
Apply online now! We can’t wait to hear from you! 

Visit our website to learn more.

 We accept applications from New Zealand citizens, permanent residents and international students with a current visa who are based in NZ.   

Whakahā ngā whakaaro / Breathing life into our ideas, thoughts, views 
Kia māia, kia kaha, mahi tahi / Be bold, be strong, work as one