Graduate Development Programme For Engineers

The City is looking for smart and motivated engineering graduates who want to work in an exciting and challenging environment in 2019.

What is the Graduate Development Programme for Engineers?The Graduate Development Programme is aimed at identifying and developing leadership skills among the next generation of engineering students, in order to meet the future resource needs of the City.

This is a 48-month programme that will begin in January 2019 and is specifically aimed at graduates in their final year of an engineering degree.

More about the ProgrammeEngineering professionals within the City specialise in a variety of disciplines including electrical, water, civil, transport and chemical engineering.

City engineering teams:

• Have a high level of integrity
• Identify and resolve risks, and improve efficiency of services
• Have a high degree of responsibility
• Have a collaborative work style
• Enjoy a highly teamwork-oriented environment
• Are solution-oriented and outcome-driven
• Translate situations into sustainable solutions

As a new graduate, you will be working in teams with highly skilled mentors and exposed to complex challenges and technologies. You will be required to apply your academic knowledge to functions, projects and processes and come up with innovative solutions which ultimately benefit all the citizens of Cape Town.

Entry requirements

In order to qualify for the Graduate Engineering Programme, you must have completed or are currently completing a Bachelors or postgraduate degree in engineering.

Your qualification must be from a recognised university in South Africa and you must have the intention of qualifying as a professionally registered engineer.

The deadline for submissions is Friday, 7 September 2018.

How to apply

Email your Curriculum Vitae (CV), a covering letter, certified copies of qualifications and academic transcripts to:
[email protected] by Friday, 7 September 2018.

Candidates for consideration will be contacted for interviews. If you have not been contacted by the City within three months of submission of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful.

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