Engineering Consulting

Work on a rail project as a graduate consulting engineer at GHD.

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Get Career Ready

Complete work that simulates life on the job. 3-4 hours and self-paced.

Stand out in your application to GHD. Show us you're a motivated candidate.

Get Career Ready

Complete work that simulates life on the job. 3-4 hours and self-paced.

Stand out in your application to GHD. Show us you're a motivated candidate.

Why complete our Job Simulation

A risk-free way to experience work on the job with us at GHD. Practice your skills with example tasks and build your confidence to ace your applications.

Self-paced3-4 hoursNo gradesNo assessmentsintroductory

Welcome to our program! We are so excited to have you here.

At GHD, we’re invested in making a difference. We are committed to creating sustainable solutions for those who design and operate infrastructure and manage the world’s resources. Supporting clients across the business value chain from capital deployment, investment optimisation, value preservation, sustainability, resilience and liability transformation.

During this program, you will get the opportunity to step into the shoes of a GHD engineering consulting team member and complete tasks that replicate the work that our consulting team does every day. You’ll learn how to read and understand design briefs, develop cost and construction time estimates, investigate stakeholder and environmental impacts, assess design outcomes and report on all the findings from your investigation to make clear recommendations to clients.

We hope this program provides a great resource for you to upskill and strengthen your resume as you explore career options and a potential career at GHD.

Skills you will learn and practice:

Microsoft Excel

Planning

Estimating

Attention to Detail

Risk Analysis

Decision-making

Writing

Summarising key details

Clear Communication

Summarising Key Details

How it works

Complete tasks guided by pre-recorded videos and example answers from our team at GHD. No live sessions, all self-paced.

Earn a certificate and add it to your resume and LinkedIn as an extra curricular activity.

Stand out in applications. Confidently answer interview questions and explain why you’re a good fit for our team.

Introduction from GHD

Hear Steven Nield, Graduate Recruitment Lead at GHD, introduce the program.

Tasks in this program

Intro & Scenario

Meet your team members and learn about your project goals.

Your role

You are working as a graduate consulting engineer at GHD.
You are working directly with your manager for a client within the transportation industry on an options analysis for a rail project.
Your manager is tied up with other projects at the moment, so they are relying on you to produce the options analysis quickly for their review before sending it off to the client.
You really want to impress your manager and show them how much you have learned about the design process during your time at GHD, and this opportunity will allow you to do exactly that!

Your goal

The client has come to GHD with different design options for a particular rail line. Your job is to compare these options and consider a variety of factors to recommend which one will be best for the client to move forward with.
This will require you to consider important design and construction factors such as cost, construction timelines, design outcomes and stakeholder and environmental impacts.
Your goal is to make the comparison process you used clear to the client and wrap everything up together in a short memo highlighting key findings and takeaways, along with GHD's final recommendation.

Reviews

Over 1650

5 Star Reviews

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"What made this virtual internship captivating is the diverse set of tasks involved. These tasks almost gave the impression that our actions and the work we are delivering for each task has real-life implications, therefore one must do it seriously. I did take my time to complete this internship but it was worth it. It was a good learning experience..."-- Student from University of Technology Sydney

"It made me think critcally throughout and made me feel my decision is very important like of an engineer's working physically on the project."-- Student from Charles Darwin University

"A fantastic internship experience! As a virtual internship, there was no "virtual" feeling; it was as if I was sitting in an office reviewing the project and experiencing the entire process of evaluating a basic project! It was incredible!"-- Student from University of Western Australia

"Totally enjoyed it, Unique opportunity to gain practical work simulation remotely. Participants can engage in scenario project and develop skills related to that even though it is small project. and this job simulation provides you clear idea of the particular role."-- Student from University of Auckland

"The expectations in the program were clear and the example responses provided a good way to evaluate my work."-- Student from University of Queensland

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