Make your mark with Thiess
Everyday, all around the world, Thiess supports and celebrates our people. We recognise talent and reward transparency. We champion diversity and embrace change.
Join us. Hone your skills and develop new ones. Take on big challenges and grow, through mentorship, collaboration and empowerment.
Thiess is the place to make things happen.
About The Opportunity
The Thiess Cadetship Program provides a pathway into professional Technical Services roles across our projects. We support employees to study part-time while continuing to work full time gaining real hands-on experience working in a functional technical team. Thiess will reimburse the costs of study fees upon successful completion of each course.
If you’ve thought about advancing your career in mining, this is your chance to do so in a supportive environment where you can learn on the job, enjoy flexibility to study and have your course fees paid for.
Additional support will be provided through programs including the Thiess Graduate Advisor Program, Graduate Development Modules and Graduate Mining Education Series.
Our cadetships program is currently offered for disciplines including mining engineering, survey and other technical disciplines (on a case by case basis). Each agreement is tailored to the applicant’s individual circumstances and field of study, but nominally four years duration if completing a two-year associate degree part time. At least two rotations in different roles, projects and functions related to their discipline of study will be offered.
About You
The following outlines the list of eligibility requirements that a candidate must meet to be considered for a cadetship with Thiess:
- Locally based applicants, family members and existing employees will be highly regarded.
- Meet prerequisite conditions to enrol in relevant tertiary degree.
- Existing students may recruited directly into the program.
- Enrolled as a part-time student in,
- Continuous enrolment in chosen course of study and the ability to maintain a passing grade, or higher
- Intention to continue working for Thiess post cadetship program for at least one year
- Able to demonstrate commitment to Thiess’ shared group principles of Integrity, Accountability, Innovation and Delivery
Please note that this role will be a permanent position and applications for this role will close at midnight on Monday 23 June 2025.
What Thiess Can Do for You
- Help to grow your career, offering diverse and varied opportunities for advancement
- Flexible working arrangements
- World-class health & wellbeing programs
- Salary sacrifice options
- A range of corporate discounts, including health insurance (Medibank), travel & retail products
About us
Thiess works with clients in Australia, Asia and the Americas in the dynamic field of open-cut and underground mining.
The pioneering spirit of our founders – the legendary Thiess brothers – is our legacy, and inspires our vision to harness the power of people and technology to drive sustainable change.
At Thiess, you will have the opportunity to play a part in the global energy transition. We are growing our commodities portfolio to include metals and minerals critical to the energy transition, and developing services to enable sustainable mining.
We’re creating a culture of curiosity, knowledge-sharing, and continuous learning – supporting our people to contribute to Thiess’ success and continued growth in sustainable mining.
We’ll support you to hone your skills and develop new ones, take on challenges and grow, through mentorship, collaboration and empowerment. We offer our people ongoing technical training and development opportunities so they can reach their full potential. We also invest in the workforce of the future, with a range of programs for people starting their careers.
We recognise the value of an inclusive and diverse workplace through our vision of everyone matters always. We’re focused on creating an inclusive environment to enable our people to bring their best self to work because they feel safe, included and empowered.
Learn more http://thiess.com/makeyourmark
Should you require assistance applying for this opportunity, please contact us at hiring@thiess.com
How to Apply
This role is an opportunity to take the next step in your career. With our culture of recognition, development, and a stimulating and satisfying work environment, there is no better time to join Thiess.
Thiess follows a Pre-Employment Process for all successful applicants, which includes two employment references, a National Police Check and a medical assessment. These checks are essential to your application, and your recruiter will support you through the process.
Please click the “apply” button to apply for this role.