Building future talent
In FY17, we continued to build our pipeline of future talent with a particular focus on promoting diversity and equal opportunity in the infrastructure sector by providing opportunities for female graduates and students.
This year 83 graduates, interns and work experience students joined Transurban, and we hosted hundreds more for site visits, industry events and mentoring programs.
The Transurban Graduate Program hired eight graduates during FY17. This two-year program rotates graduates through different business units across our Australian offices, where they gain hands-on experience on key projects.
Our first group of graduates, who commenced in 2016, have successfully applied their academic knowledge in real-world situations such as launching a new retail brand, supporting major delivery and development projects, and contributing to the operations and maintenance of our road assets. They continue to bring innovative ideas and diversity of thought to our organisation.
Transurban’s Women in Engineering Scholarship at the University of New South Wales supports a female student to undertake a degree in Engineering. In 2017, Brittney Monk, now in her first year of a double degree in Engineering and Science received this award. The scholarship covers the cost of her degree, and Brittney will join us for work experience during her studies.
The Cameron Roberts Memorial Scholarship was established in memory of Cameron Roberts, a highly valued member of the Transurban Finance team who sadly passed away in 2015.
This year we awarded this scholarship to Kubra Taher. Kubra is a third-year civil engineering student, and is the first in her family to attend university. Kubra will receive financial support to complete her degree and work experience and mentoring from Transurban.
Two third-year female engineering students in the Monash University Engineering Leadership program were awarded scholarships. These students will undertake work experience with CityLink during university holiday periods.
Transurban’s Females Excelling in Engineering and Technology (FEET) mentoring program continued in FY17, with 49 students participating across Australia. Participants received mentoring in technology, engineering, traffic analysis, project delivery and operational excellence, health safety and environment and state businesses.
The second year of our Undergraduate Engineering Program in Queensland provided an opportunity for three fourth-year engineering students to join the Project Delivery and Operational Excellence team during the summer holidays, gaining valuable industry experience that also contributes to their tertiary qualifications.
Through our partnership in Western Sydney University’s Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) program, we offered women studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) the chance to meet senior engineering and science professionals, and gain skills and experience to prepare them for their transition to the workforce.
Transurban also hosted a site visit to our NorthConnex project for the WiSE program’s launch event.
We also reached out to high school students to encourage them to consider studies and possible career paths in business, engineering and infrastructure.
Transurban ran an industry experience session on Transport Planning for Sydney with around 130 female high school students at the University of NSW’s Power of Engineering day in September 2016. We also hosted a Power of Engineering event at our Cross City Tunnel asset, with Year 10 students from Loretta Kirribilli.
NorthConnex hosted more than 20 Aboriginal high school students as part of the Engineering Aid Australia Summer School program. The students had an opportunity to inspect the 40-metre deep tunnel shaft and watch the excavation of spoil from the tunnel. Engineering Aid Australia supports young Indigenous people to pursue an engineering career.
The CityLink Tulla Widening project hosted seven students from Strathmore Secondary College for a week of work experience.
Our head office in Melbourne office hosted a group of eight indigenous year nine and ten students and their teachers from the Ganbina Indigenous Youth Program.
Four students from a range of degrees joined us for a 12-week intern program in Transurban’s first summer internship program with Virginia Tech in the USA. The students were placed in the Procurement, Finance, Operations and Technology areas of the USA business.
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