29: Aurecon Group Employee Reviews

Good place for graduates to get exposure to big projects and industry experts, and explore your career opportunities in different sectors through rotations. But it can be difficult if you would like to develop your expertise and career as planned unless you have a very supportive manager and an active resource manager.

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This is not the greatest working environment over the long term, unless you have financial goals to meet in a short span of time.

Safety Environment Quality (Former Employee) - Australia - 5 August 2023

Management in my area were more focused and appearing to meet a goal than supporting how that goal was met. There was a fear of disagreeing with the Management and therefore unrealistic goals were unchallenged. I personnally experienced a mental breakdown and prior to that I experienced people whose behaviours were considered undesirable despite the fact that they were experiencing anxiety on the job. Classification of safety data was challenged, raising issues pertaining to safety was at times discouraged. Note this is my personal experience. A lot of people working past their work hours, emails at all times after work hours and weekends, this was not discouraged and I believe it would actually put pressure others.

Pros

Good pay

Cons

Poor work culture

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Consulting is hard work but fun with lots of opportunities to develop

Electrical Engineer (Former Employee) - Sydney, Australia - 10 July 2023

Good environment for engineers to develop their design and consulting skills. Fun atmosphere with plenty of bright individuals. Can be challenging at times due to focus on billable hours.

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Great team, interesting work.

Environmental Consultant (Former Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 13 May 2023

Good enviro. team in Melbourne, with experts in various fields. The pay could be better compared to other engineering firms. Interesting projects though.

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Good work culture & would stay for the people I work with

Senior Engineer (Current Employee) - Brisbane QLD - 29 September 2022

Aurecon Brisbane Industrial team has probably the best work culture I have encountered. Very friendly and helpful people throughout the team and they really take care of you. Salary wise, it is very behind. Work wise, it is challenging and can be interesting, but you might get pigeonholed into doing the same thing for a while.

Pros

Excellent team culture, lots of initiatives to enhance diversity and inclusion

Cons

Below market salary, slow career progression

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Drafter (Former Employee) - Sydney NSW - 7 September 2022

Don't work there. Trust me. These people think they are geniuses but you have to see it to believe it. 1+1+3 according to them and they are never wrong

Pros

Nothing

Cons

Bad management

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Fun place to work with very supportive management

Senior Mechanical Engineer (Current Employee) - Brisbane, Australia - 26 July 2022

Great selection of projects. Aurecon is a very inclusive place to work with a lot of opportunities to engage with colleagues. They really care about the wellbeing of their employees. Innovation is front-of-mind and are always striving to be a leader in this space. Allowed to be creative and the teams are generally quite flexible when it comes to working arrangements.

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Free fruits and collaborative environment

Electrical Engineer (Current Employee) - Adelaide CBD SA - 24 April 2022

It's a good place to start, they have good projects and my team leader and teammates are supportive. The company has done lots of projects and there is always some reference material from past projects.

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Poor management

Consultant (Former Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 26 January 2022

The management is money hungry and invest bare minimum in the operation. All just talk and produce nice presentation to lie to the employees and clients

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Good workplace

Senior Control Systems Engineer (Former Employee) - Perth WA - 20 October 2021

It is a good place to start your career. The business unit culture ignores bullies' behavior. It seems the norm to work overtime without claiming overtime. The good point is that I developed a lot of good friendships.

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Not much to fault

Senior Technician (Current Employee) - Brisbane, Australia - 19 August 2021

Good company to work for. My managers seem to genuinely care about their staff. Reasonable variety of work coming in. Great work/life balance and flexibility.

Pros

Work/life balance, good remuneration, flexible working arrangements, very diverse and good gender balance

Cons

Very hard to become a shareholder, not many landmark projects, limited presence outside Australia and NZ, not as many opportunities to travel abroad

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Tight deadline but great colleagues

Project Manager / Business Analyst (Former Employee) - Melbourne VIC - 2 August 2021

Overall great culture that has allowed people to develop continuously. Challenge is around getting a pay rise. Even with high performance, I saw my pay only rise 10% over 5 years.

Pros

Travel, team, the work

Cons

Long hours, Low pay

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Ordinary

Executive Assistant to the Group Chief Financial Officer (Former Employee) - Neutral Bay NSW - 7 February 2021

If you weren't an engineer or someone super senior then you were treated poorly. It's a very clicky environment - if you don't fit their mould, you'll know it. Very poor leadership when it came to supporting ALL staff.

Pros

None I can think of

Cons

Poor leadership; lack of support to work flexibly

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Productive and an encouraging workplace.

Senior Electrical Design Drafter (Former Employee) - Sydney, Australia - 1 August 2020

You have your own time on finishing the job on hand and always has a positive workplace culture. And the most enjoyable part of the work is that you get to work with most of the friendliest colleagues everyday.

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not worth your effort

Civil Designer (Former Employee) - Bowen Hills QLD - 22 July 2020

Aurecon in itself if you take away the people is not bad, the jobs i worked on were fantastic. however management is horrible , you are treated with 0 respect and expected to complete ridiculous deadlines DUE to unorganized management. overall i would not recommend Aurecon because your skills and person WILL BE VALUED elsewhere.

Pros

free lunch snacks and breakfast

Cons

management, work environment, work life balance

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Positive learning and collaborative environment

Bridge Engineer (Former Employee) - Neutral Bay NSW - 18 June 2020

In Aurecon, I worked in a positive and collaborative environment to complete the projects at a quality level. My colleagues were professional and supportive in character. I practised problem-solving, decision-making, innovation and creativity through engaging in a wide range of activities. Knowledge and skill development is highly encouraged in Aurecon. I also used a number of advanced engineering software to carry out design process.

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Strong company with good professional development

Undergraduate Engineer/ Project Manager (Former Employee) - Adelaide City Centre SA - 21 June 2018

Overall good place to work. It felt like I was being pushed towards what they wanted me to do rather then what I was wanting to do. Difficult to get grounding as an undergrad. Had a good workplace culture. Hardest part of the job was inefficient work with how it is scheduled and bureaucracy. Most enjoyable part was completing tasks and learning skills.

Pros

Good work place, professional development.

Cons

Long hours, bureaucracy

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productive and positive workplace

Administration Assistant (Former Employee) - New South Wales - 6 November 2017

friendly staff with welcoming attitudes. Hard workers and a positive and safe environment to be in. I enjoyed doing work experience with Aurecon for a week, early starts and late afternoon finishes.

Pros

kind staff, friendly environment

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good place to work

Safety professional (Former Employee) - Brisbane QLD - 15 September 2017

Happy to keep returning when required i have worked on various projects with various teams over the past 4 years in brisbane and in the field all were good to work with

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good company

safety professional (Former Employee) - Brisbane Central Business District QLD - 24 June 2017

I enjoyed working with intelligent people who were willing to learn but also to teach. I worked in both field and various offices in my time with aurecon, therefore I believe I can say without hesitation there is is a fine culture within the company.

Cons

nil

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Ultimate Workplace

Undergraduate Communication Consultant (Former Employee) - Sydney NSW - 6 March 2017

Aurecon provides a work environment in which anything can be achieved. While there, I was swept away into a workplace culture full of vibrant, friendly people full of knowledge and kindness. Help is never far away, but neither is a true working challenge.