Lendlease Graduate Program 2025

Applications for our 2025 Lendlease Graduate Program are now open!

Lendlease creates workplaces, infrastructure and urbanisation projects that help business succeed and people to thrive.

Whatever matters most to you. Whatever you want to achieve – professionally, personally and for the people and places around you – you can do it with Lendlease.

Being bold and innovative characterises our approach and doing what matters defines our intent.

Our Program

Our 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.

We 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 – specialise in providing accurate measure 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 to deliver 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 our 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 package where you will coordinate & manage and under the leadership of relevant supervisors, 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 through developing comprehensive knowledge of EH&S.  Our principles of Environment, Health and Safety throughout an operation’s lifecycle (design, deliver, operate) is at the forefront in everything we 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, 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 to 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 our Finance function. Rotations will be varied and continue to evolve as the business needs change. These include roles within our Financial Control & Project Teams, supporting our Investments, Development and Construction Businesses, and/or Group Finance Teams. 
   

Availability of the roles per state vary, 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 unable to populate your State, this would suggest there is no available role in your selected State for your selected stream.

Eligibility & Commitment

• Graduated with a relevant bachelor’s degree between 2022-2024

• Must have graduated and be available to work full-time once program commences

• At time of application candidates must hold Australian/ New Zealand citizenship or Permanent Residency

• Role will commence in February 2025

Timeline of Recruitment Process:

• Advertisement closes 17 July 2024

• If eligible upon application, you will be prompted to complete an Online Psychometrics test & Video Interview 

• The final stage is Assessment Centres which will take place in approximately late August through to September.

We embrace the value of a vibrant and diverse workforce and recognise that our people have different experiences and needs at different times. Lendlease is a diverse, flexible and inclusive employer of choice. We engage, enable and empower our people and support their individual needs. Inclusion sets us all up for success.

At Lendlease we offer workplaces that unite diverse minds; where respect, equitable treatment and equitable opportunity are just the norm. We remain committed to supporting under-represented groups and providing a wide range of inclusion initiatives, so that everyone is supported to thrive.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is reflected in our Elevate Reconciliation Action Plan, our Bronze Award with the Australian Workplace Equality Index by Pride in Diversity, and our generous parental leave policy of 26 weeks to any parent regardless of gender.

Lendlease welcomes applicants regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, people with a disability, sexual orientation, or life stage. If you do not meet all the criteria or require adjustments to proceed with your application, we encourage you to reach out for a further discussion.