BHP Billiton Engineering Graduate Programme


Advertiser: BHP Billiton
Location: Richards Bay

You can join our Group Graduate Development Programme, the aim of which is to grow future business leaders. We offer unique opportunities for personal growth and career development for high achievers. This includes in-service training, coaching and mentoring, business acumen development, face-to-face interaction with graduates from across the globe and international assignments.

You should be a proactive self-starter who seizes opportunities, acts on own initiative and focuses on improvement and long-term thinking. An assertive and credible team player who identifies problems and finds solutions to them, appeals to us.

Foremost, you need to see yourself as a professional, capable of delivering high-quality work with a high level of responsibility and flexibility.

We are looking to place graduates in a Technical field. For success, you will have a BSc Engineering in Chemical / Mechanical / Electrical (both light and heavy current) or BSc Metallurgy, relevant technical knowledge and a record of general working experience highlighting personal responsibility. Computer literacy (Microsoft) combined with the ability to communicate well in English and to learn new information quickly are of utmost importance. South African citizenship, together with proven strong academic performance will result in an invitation to participate in a rigorous selection process, comprising of several selection filters.

Closing date: 18 October 2013

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Definitions:

Internship:

There are basically two types of internships:

  • The Undergraduate Internship: Usually with bigger organisations that pick undergraduates to attend the internship. It often takes places during the holidays and the average durations is a few weeks. In most cases the intern will receive some sort of stipend or salary and this type of internship may lead to a job offer to the intern once he / she is finished with their studies.
  • The Graduate Internship: This type of internship could be paid or unpaid and it is to gain practical work experience after the qualification has been completed and in a job related to the qualification. It could be from a few weeks or even one or two years long. This type of internship could also lead to permanent employment.

Learnerships:

A learnership is an occupational qualification and it consists of theory and work-based experience and practical skills, with formal assessment and a qualification. At the end of the learnership the candidate may be offered permanent employment.

In-service training:

In-service training is to gain practical work experience during studies. It usually takes place after a few years of theory has been successfully completed. It is essential work experience that is part of the qualification and the in-service training is necessary to achieve the qualification. It could be paid or unpaid.