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McConnell Dowell

  • 500 - 1,000 employees

McConnell Dowell’s Infrastructure Virtual Experience

This Virtual Experience will help you to build the foundations and develop the skills to ready yourself for work on McConnell Dowell's civil infrastructure projects.

Opportunity details

Opportunity Type
Virtual Experience

Minimum requirements

Accepting International Applications
Yes
Qualifications Accepted
E
Aerospace Engineering & Aviation
Automotive & Transport Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering & Construction
Communications Engineering
Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Engineering Management
Environmental Engineering
Fire & Safety Engineering
Geomatic Engineering
Manufacturing Engineering
Marine Engineering
Materials Engineering
Mathematics & Statistics
Mechanical Engineering
Mining Engineering
Petroleum Engineering
Renewable Energy Engineering
Robotics & Mechatronics Engineering
Engineering & Mathematics (all other)

Hiring criteria

Entry pathway

See details

Working rights

Australia

  • Australian Citizen
  • Australian Permanent Resident
  • Australian Student Visa
  • Australian Temporary Work Visa
  • Visa Sponsorship Included
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What is this?

Welcome to McConnell Dowell’s Infrastructure Virtual Experience.

McConnell Dowell is a major engineering, construction, building and maintenance contractor delivering infrastructure to the building, mining, oil and gas, petrochemical, power, social & public infrastructure, transport and water sectors. The Group, which operates under the brands of McConnell Dowell and Built Environs, offers a broad construction capability with complete multi-discipline capability in building, civil, fabrication, electrical, maintenance and mechanical works with specialist engineering capabilities in pipeline, tunnelling, marine and rail construction.

In this virtual experience, you will get a taste of what it is like to work as a graduate engineer at McConnell Dowell. As an Engineering graduate, you will develop your skills to read drawings, review and manage subcontractor tenders and manage your own packages of works.

 

Why should you do this?

Duration
This Virtual Experience Program is self-paced and should take only 1 to 2 hours to complete.

free
This Virtual Experience Program is free for all students.

Earn certificate
When you complete the Virtual Experience Program, you’ll earn a digital badge and certificate you can share on Linkedin and include on your resume.

Real work experience
Throughout the program, you’ll learn and develop deep insights into what it is actually like to work as an Engineering Graduate at McConnell Dowell. Apply your engineering knowledge to a real-world problem & gain practical experience and knowledge to draw upon in interviews.

 

What skills will I gain?

 tick mark Analysing drawings 

 tick mark Calculating volumes of material required 

 tick mark Synthesizing and communicating a clear and logical methodology

 

What you will do?

Module 1: Pedestrian crossing renewal (1 - 2 hours)

Manage the renewal of a small pedestrian crossing at a railway track, including analysing drawings, calculating the material requirements, and developing the methodology.

 

Ready to get started?

Click Register to begin

Hiring criteria

You should have or be completing the following to apply for this opportunity.

Entry pathway
Degree or Certificate
Study Field
E
Aerospace Engineering & Aviation
Automotive & Transport Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering & Construction
Communications Engineering
Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Work rights

The opportunity is available to applicants in any of the following categories.

country
eligibility

Australia

Australia

Australian Citizen

Australian Permanent Resident

Australian Student Visa

Australian Temporary Work Visa

Visa Sponsorship Included


Graduate Success Stories


  • Graduate stories
It is really cool to see all the work that is done in the background from the start of a job that is then implemented practically to build something tangible.

Paul Dally

  • Graduate stories
It is really cool to see all the work that is done in the background from the start of a job that is then implemented practically to build something tangible.

Paul Dally

  • Graduate stories
I now choose to work for McConnell Dowell not only to further my own ability but also because I enjoy the work culture, like the people.

Wei Minn Wong

  • Graduate stories
I now choose to work for McConnell Dowell not only to further my own ability but also because I enjoy the work culture, like the people.

Wei Minn Wong

  • Graduate stories
It is really cool to see all the work that is done in the background from the start of a job that is then implemented practically to build something tangible.

Paul Dally

  • Graduate stories
It is really cool to see all the work that is done in the background from the start of a job that is then implemented practically to build something tangible.

Paul Dally

  • Graduate stories
I now choose to work for McConnell Dowell not only to further my own ability but also because I enjoy the work culture, like the people.

Wei Minn Wong

  • Graduate stories
I now choose to work for McConnell Dowell not only to further my own ability but also because I enjoy the work culture, like the people.

Wei Minn Wong