Graduate (Environmental Science, Conservation and Heritage Management) - 2026 Program

**Department for Infrastructure and Transport**
**Job reference**: 658061
**Location**: - VARIOUS -, 5000 - ADELAIDE
**Job status**: Long Term Contract
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone

Want to play a part in South Australia’s infrastructure and transport future? Start your career with our 2026 Graduate Program.

As a graduate officer, you’ll be challenged and rewarded as you gain valuable experience alongside supportive, future-focused professionals. We’ll encourage you to take initiative and challenge our thinking while contributing to solutions that benefit all South Australians.

We’d love to hear from **Environmental Science, Conservation and Heritage Management**university graduates who have completed a minimum three-year Bachelor’s degree **within the last three years**.

**About the Business**
At the Department for Infrastructure and Transport, we are connecting South Australia to keep our State moving. We are responsible for delivering a multi-billion-dollar pipeline of transformative transport and social infrastructure projects, operating and maintaining thousands of kilometres of roads and managing our city’s public transport network.

Our work encompasses every part of our State; from our cities to our regions, connecting and strengthening community. We value diversity and inclusion and foster an environment of collaboration, flexibility and support for our people.

Due to the breadth of the Department’s portfolio, our team has the opportunity to shape a sustainable future and influence the planning, design and procurement of some of South Australia’s largest ever transport and infrastructure projects.

Members of the Environment team provide technical and policy related expert advice and information to the Department and State Government, for the provision of specialist environment management services including Environment, Aboriginal Heritage and Contamination. The team provides an important contribution to the development and credibility of the Department’s technical/professional reputation and the sustainability of essential environmental-related in-house expertise, capability and corporate knowledge. As well as the formation of specifications and standards in line with business needs, legislative compliance and risk management.

Members of the team are instrumental in the Environment and Heritage Impact Assessment (EHIA) process, which allows for the orderly and systematic evaluation of a project or program, together with its alternatives and objectives, and its impacts on environment and heritage aspects
- including the mitigation hierarchy of avoidance, minimisation, rehabilitation/restoration and offset of those impacts. The team provides expert advice throughout the project lifecycle to all Department transport (road, rail, marine) & social infrastructure projects and property portfolios, examples include the River Torrens to Darlington project, Northern Water, Fleurieu Connections, Tram Grade Separation Projects, Adelaide Aquatic Centre and Granite Island Causeway.

**Why join our Graduate Program?**
- **Career development**:We offer comprehensive training programs, mentorship opportunities, and clear career progression paths to help you grow.
- **Health and wellbeing**:We support a range of health and wellbeing initiatives such as our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), which includes a First Nations specific support program, free annual flu vaccinations, and the Fitness Passport program.
- **Flexible working arrangements**:Enjoy work-life balance with options like flexi-time, working from home, various flexible working arrangements, purchased leave, cultural leave and more.
- **Impactful work**:Be part of projects that make a tangible difference in the community and contribute to South Australia’s future.
- **Project work**:Gain experience working on projects across the entire project life-cycle, from planning to delivery to contract management.
- **Work rotations**:Undertake tailored rotations across the Department in metropolitan or regional locations based on your discipline and aligned learning opportunities.
- **Learning and development**:Be provided with a formal learning program and exposure to ongoing professional development opportunities.
- **Graduate network**:Join a community of fellow graduates across professions and from different entry years - setting you up with a professional network of like-minded individuals.

Visit our website to find out learn more about our Graduate Program, and watch a video about a day in the life of our graduates here.

**Salary**
PO1 - starting at $71,375 per annum, plus 11.5% superannuation
- Appointment to an alternative classification stream may be considered having regard to qualification(s) and experience._

**Eligibility for the program requires applicants to have**:

- A minimum undergraduate qualification received no earlier than 2023.
- Australian citizenship, permanent residency or a visa that allows them to work in Australia.
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