Graduate Program (Feb 2025)

Your role

The Lendlease Graduate Program 2025 offers a whole range of opportunities in Construction, Finance and EHS. And it’s open to graduates from a wider variety of degree disciplines than you might think. Whichever Stream or team you join, you can keep on growing and making the progress you want. There’s nothing to stop you, and everything to enable you.

As a participant of the two-year Lendlease Graduate Program, you will be supported through a structured learning and development program, rotations, dynamic managers, various on-the-job activities and learning, networking, and social activities – allowing you to build lasting relationships with both senior leaders and fellow graduates.

The company are offering the following Graduate Program roles for 2025:

• Graduate Site Engineer – as part of the wider project team, you will be involved in the coordination and monitoring of activities and efforts of contractors and suppliers onsite to ensure construction is completed within schedule and costs. You can have the opportunity to work on Medium to Large scale projects across commercial, workplace, education, residential and retail sectors.
   
• Cost Planning Graduate – specialises in providing accurate measures of quantities, effective use of ‘Value Engineering’ to optimise client value, reducing risk and analysing data in controlling design to a defined set of cost parameters.
   
• Commercial Graduate – fill a business-oriented position within a project, where you will be responsible for overseeing and managing the finance performance of a project through the identification and management of risk and opportunities through the various stages of a project lifecycle including contract management.
   
• Sustainability Graduate - You will gain a comprehension of sustainability deliverables and be able to assist with the review of subcontractor sustainability data for completeness and accuracy. You will assist the project team in delivering the achievement of the Projects’ sustainability commitments and in support of Lendlease sustainability targets. You will also help deliver initiatives relating to the Lendlease Sustainability Framework such as energy, carbon, water and waste reduction and responsible material selection, and social impact initiatives including workforce participation and community engagement.
   
• Graduate Site Engineer UX - you will work with the User Experience specialist team, dedicated to delivering commercial office fit-out, asset repositioning, multi-site programs of work and bespoke new build projects. You will contribute to routine phases of projects, be responsible for multiple trade packages that you will coordinate & manage and under the leadership of relevant supervisors, and perform engineering duties and tasks, which may involve scheduling, contract management and onsite coordination activities.
   
• EH&S (Environmental Health & Safety) - You will become a professional by developing a comprehensive knowledge of EH&S.  The principles of Environment, Health and Safety throughout an operation’s lifecycle (design, deliver, operate) is at the forefront in everything they do. Being an EH&S professional fosters strong relationships with individuals and teams and creates a culture of care. You will develop your skills in EH&S practices, and risk management and support current EHS programs. You will gain advisory experience within one of the Lendlease Australia businesses. Preferred Degrees: Science Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Health, Nursing.
   
• Finance Graduate – You will experience diverse and challenging rotations across various businesses and projects, as well as undertake both accounting and finance roles. These will enable you to build your capability and provide you with an in-depth and well-rounded understanding of the Finance function. Rotations will be varied and continue to evolve as the business needs change. These include roles within the Financial Control & Project Teams, supporting the Investments, Development and Construction Businesses, and/or Group Finance Teams. 

Availability of the roles per state varies, when processing your application, you will have the opportunity to select the state/role that is relevant to you. If you select your desired stream but are unable to populate your State, this would suggest there is no available role in your selected State for your selected stream

To know what kind of projects you will be working on as a Graduate at Lendlease, watch this video:

About you

Requirements:

• Graduated with a relevant bachelor’s degree between 2022-2024
• Must have graduated and be available to work full-time once the program commences
• At the time of application, candidates must hold Australian/ New Zealand citizenship or Permanent Residency
• The role will commence in February 2025

Benefits

Lendlease offers their employees something more, with opportunities to grow in every role. Here are some of them:

• Inspiring workplaces: You'll work with smart, passionate people in innovative workplaces that are modern, and collaborative and facilitate agile working, with healthy snacks and plenty of breakout areas for social connection.
• Health & wellbeing: Lendlease offer benefits and initiatives that will enhance your health & wellbeing, from nutrition and subsidised exercise programs to wellbeing leave, to a suite of mental health programs offered to all employees and their families. 
• Balance: They offer many ways to balance your career and your personal life, including options to work flexibly, and purchase additional annual leave and extensive family support benefits 

Training, development & rotation

As a Lendlease Graduate, you are given the opportunity to work on meaningful and innovative projects, work alongside industry thought leaders, build networks across the business and gain exposure to senior leaders.

The formal Graduate development program allows you to stay connected with your cohort while developing key skills and capabilities to get you future-ready. This is complemented by role-specific on-the-job learning that is supported by your Line Manager and team/s.

• Minimum 2 rotations across projects or roles within your discipline
• Graduate Development program to build your skills and capabilities
• Work alongside industry thought leaders and networking opportunities across the business
• Support structure consisting of the Manager, Buddy, and the Early Careers Team
• Meaningful and innovative work where you make a difference
• Contribute to high-profile initiatives and projects

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• lendlease.com/au/careers/graduate-program/
• lendlease.com/au/careers/#146064