We believe in developing our people by offering mentoring, coaching, and supporting your journey to realise potential. You’ll be empowered to learn and develop to find your area of passion. At Northrop, we understand that the key to success is our people. Together we are creating a workplace that offers career development, employee benefits and values an inclusive culture.
As well as completing the industrial training component of your degree, you will be working on real projects with real responsibilities. You will have the opportunity to develop to your full potential and beyond, alongside owners of the business whilst experiencing the variety and diversity of consulting engineering, alongside owners of our business.
Through this experience you will learn to do the following:
We're a people business, by joining Northrop you'll be able to build meaningful relationships with your colleagues, clients, and the community. You'll work on a diverse range of technically challenging projects and will be exposed to advanced thinking and innovative engineering design.
Northrop Consulting Engineers is more than just a workplace. We encourage and support our people to excel both professionally and personally. An employee-owned, multidiscipline consultancy with an open management structure, we employ over 550 staff and operate across numerous offices in NSW, ACT, QLD, and VIC. When you join Northrop, you join a company that will support your career and help you to realise your potential.
Northrop believes that our employees are fundamental to the culture and success of the company. Our Graduates enjoy working with us because we offer a challenging, diverse but rewarding work environment.
We have recently been recognised in Prosple's Top 100 Graduate Employers in Australia. We are also very proud of winning five workplace awards based on surveyed graduates working in our business. These awards from Prosple recognise Northrop’s excellence in engineering consultancy across the following categories of:
If you are motivated, thirsty for knowledge and have a drive to succeed with Northrop then we would love to hear from you.
We view our Graduates as our future leaders. We are seeking bright and innovative Graduate applicants who are confident communicators and will embrace our values.
To succeed in our program, you need to be curious, motivated, and driven to make a difference in the future of our communities. You will work both independently and as part of a team, enjoy problem-solving, and collaborating and offer innovative and creative thinking, approaches, and solutions.
To be eligible to apply, you must have completed your university degree within the last year or be in your final year of study.
The program starts in January 2026, you must be an Australian Citizen, a Permanent Resident of Australia, or a New Zealand Citizen.
If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you, we would love to hear from you! To apply, please complete the application form, ensuring that you provide:
To find out more, please visit the Early Careers page on our website.
The opportunity is available to applicants in any of the following categories.
Australia
Australian Citizen
Australian Permanent Resident
New Zealand
New Zealand Citizen
Structural Engineer at Northrop Consulting Engineers
Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Honours) at The University of Newcastle
Graduate Structural Engineer at Northrop Consulting Engineers
Master of Engineering at University of Melbourne