Career Prospects at John Holland

Career Builder is helpful. It would be good to have more clear options for graduating early if the employee shows high potential.

At the moment I have not finished my graduate engineer position, but i have seen that John Holland is always trying to promote its stuff to next available position which is good sign.

Promotion discussions occur as part of the yearly performance review process.

The graduate program has multiple rotation opportunities enabling graduates to various aspects of the company which includes tendering, delivery and technical engineering skills. At the end of the program there is an opportunity to work as site engineers and start a career at delivery.

I have already accelerated my graduate program by 6 months, and have been promoted to a Site engineer. I am currently perfecting am craft and will be pushing for Project Engineer in the next 12-18 months. I have made my career aspirations clear to my senior leaders and they are on board with helping track that progress.

They have different good promotion depends on your performance.

There are many opportunities for you to progress and get involved in the roles you are interested in. Plenty of access to information about different roles and pathways you can take to get there.

There is a wide number of potential entry points post the graduate program. With the opportunity to be promoted early for those that really excel.

The progression between roles doesn't have a clear time or experience checklist you can work off, some people promoted very early and others taking many years to reach a position. This makes it frustrating to plan your career out with the company. I feel that if they provided clearer guidelines, it would prevent employees moving to other companies in order to gain these promotions.

Not too sure how it works at the moment, but from what I hear it is easy to initiate.

If you can prove to your manager that you are operating above your current role, the possibility of moving up is fairly high.

Progression appears to be straight forward and attainable for most graduate engineers. The basic form of progression involves; 1) undergraduate 2) graduate (1st & 2nd year) 3) site engineer 4) project engineer 5) senior project engineer 6) project manager/construction manager 7) project director

There are no incentives for promotion possibilities during the graduate program. Graduate Coordinators are adamant that graduate completes their 2-year program.

There is a general career path, graduate engineer, site engineer, project engineer and senior project engineer over 10-15 years.

Have not been exposed to promotion possibilities as I am in the graduate program.

The business being so large and involved in many projects has room for people to be promoted and take on new challenges. When you have finished your graduate program, you have the opportunity to become a site engineer and then to progress further.

After you finish your two years as a grad, a site engineering role would be the next position you will transition to. After that, promotions will be based on your skills set.

Promotion opportunities are clear to see through the structure set up for the rail team. Progression is done in verticals, however moving across may be difficult. Producing solid work and interacting well with managers will ensure consistent progression.

Consistently produce high quality work, efficient and innovative ideas on top of all the normal tasks

Promotion opportunities are there, can be a little slow to move up.