Our Graduate Programme:

At Zutari, we work together with clients and stakeholders - in multidisciplinary, multisector and multicultural teams. We draw on our well-honed skills and expertise to move beyond established boundaries to help economies grow.

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Working closely together, we’ve engineered creative solutions on numerous projects. We’ve used artificial intelligence to capture and help plan metropolitan roads in Cape Town, designed one of the largest and greenest office buildings in Africa, and advised on South Africa’s first pump-as-turbine station to generate clean power using potential energy in existing infrastructure. And we are the first engineering consultancy in South Africa to legally operate drones so we can work more efficiently, which shows our commitment to ensuring development.

In this collaborative environment, we guide and support young professionals like you to drive your own careers. Zutari was consistently recognised as 2nd Employer of Choice in the sector of Engineering & Industrial in the 2020 and 2021 surveys of the South African Graduate Employers Association.

By giving you access to different professional learning and development initiatives, and enabling you to work alongside industry leaders, experts, and mentors, we provide you with the knowledge, skill, leadership ability, and confidence you need to become a recognised professional in your field. And, if you’d like, we can arrange for you to experience many of the different areas of our business, so you can gain a sense of what those areas involve, and communicate effectively across different business units, and across social, cultural, and economic boundaries, in the industry.

Applications are now closed.

Visit our talent acquisition portal to see what jobs are currently available at Zutari.

If you’d like to join our company, you can apply for one of the available positions through our online application portal. As part of the application process, you’ll have to upload:

  • your CV (including your personal information, educational background, relevant holiday or part-time work experience and volunteer and extracurricular activities)
  • a copy of your ID
  • your academic results (first year to final year).

Once our Emerging Talent team has received your application, they’ll follow a three-step recruitment process. They’ll stay in touch with you throughout the process, so you’ll know what the status of your application is. But you’re welcome to email or call us if you have any queries.

Direct your graduate programme-related queries to earlytalent@zutari.com.

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Screening and shortlisting

Our team will review your application. They will consider your field of study, academic performance, volunteer and extracurricular activities, leadership positions, and holiday or part-time work experience. If you meet our screening criteria, they will contact you so they can screen you telephonically or ask you to complete an online assessment.
At this point of the recruitment process, you may want to start thinking about:

  • why you want to work at Zutari
  • what differentiates you from other candidates
  • how what we do relates to your field of study, experience, and interests.

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Graduate assessment day

If you’re shortlisted for the position you’ve applied for, and if you live close to one of our major delivery centres in Tshwane, Cape Town, or eThekwini, you’ll be invited to a graduate assessment day.

Before the assessment day, our team will let you know if you need to do research in preparation for the day. On the day itself, the team will ask you to do various exercises and activities so they can get to know you better. And they will interview you for the position you’ve applied for.

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Follow-up interview & offer of employment

After the assessment day, our team will meet with various leaders in our company to discuss your application. As part of their discussion, they will consider your performance during the interview on the assessment day. Within two to three weeks after the assessment day, our team will call and email you to give you feedback on your application. They may ask you to come in for a follow-up interview. If you’re selected for the position you’ve applied for, they will do a few required pre-employment checks such as ID and qualification verification. You will receive an offer of employment if you pass all these checks.

Internships:

We employ positive people who believe in making an impact. People who say ‘yes’. People who think differently and connect with the people around them to co-create new opportunities and leave a meaningful legacy.

We offer exciting opportunities for dynamic and inspiring graduates to grow as engineers and help us reshape the world around us through human-centered design and engineering. The opportunity to turn theory into impact.

We know how difficult it is to make sense of all the theory you learned at university. This is your chance to join a multi-disciplinary team of professionals that combine technical mastery, creative intelligence and digital smarts to solve infrastructure challenges every day. This is your opportunity to grow into a holistic solutionist. To turn theory into impact.

Our internship roles consist of a 12-month fixed term period aimed at talented individuals who have completed their final year NDip, BEng, BSc, BEngTech, BTech and advanced Diploma qualifications with the focus on the disciplines – Civil, Mechanical, Electrical / Electronic, Industrial, Mechatronics, Geotechnical, Pavement, Structural, Ports & Coastal and Chemical Engineering

In this environment, you have the opportunity to pursue a career path that best suits your talents and strengths, whether as a specialist or generalist.

If you are a young Engineer/ Technologist/ Technician, it’s time to make a real impact, submit your application today!

QUALIFYING CRITERIA:

  • Transcripts to accompany your application (should this information not be available; your applications will automatically be disqualified)
  • Applicants will be required to prepare a presentation
  • If you are shortlisted, You will be assigned to an area of specialisation according to business needs and responses to our screening questions.
  • We reserve the right to determine the location of where you will be based. Should you need to relocate these costs will not be paid for by Zutari.

Applications is now closed

Zutari bursary scheme:

Through our bursary scheme, we financially support high potential matriculants and university students.

Follow us on Facebook or LinkedIn to stay informed about:

  • our emerging talent programme, including key dates and tips
  • upcoming virtual career programmes

At the virtual career programmes, you’ll get the opportunity to speak to graduates currently employed at our company and to our Emerging Talent team and some of our leaders.

Our bursary scheme for South African students

Would you like to study or are you currently studying, towards a degree in engineering? Are you a South African citizen?

If so, then we may be able to help pay for your studies. Through our bursary scheme, we financially support university students so they can obtain degrees in engineering.

Applications for our 2024 bursaries are now open. Applications is now closed.

For additional info, please send your query to earlytalent@zutari.com.

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Bursary eligibility criteria

Qualification disciplines: BSc or BEng in Civil, Mechanical, Electrical/Electronic, Mechatronics, Industrial, and Chemical Engineering, and/or related disciplines.

You can apply for a bursary:

  • if you’re a South African citizen
  • if you meet the minimum academic requirements:
    • Grade 12 – At least a 7 symbol in mathematics and science and n overall average of at least 75%
    • First year – An overall average of at least 70%
    • Second year – An overall average of at least 65%
    • Third year – An overall average of at least 60%

If you are a prospective engineer intending to study or currently studying towards one of the above and you are passionate about making a real impact in Africa, then Zutari is the place for you!

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Bursary application process

You can apply for a bursary online in September. You’ll have to attach the following documents to your online application:

  • a copy of your CV in Word format or PDF
  • a certified copy of your South African ID or Smart ID card
  • a copy of your academic records
  • proof that you’ve been accepted by, or that you’re registered at, a university recognised or accredited by the Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA).

Our emerging talent team will review your application. If you meet all our requirements, they’ll shortlist your application, and ask you to come and attend a panel interview at one of our offices. Final bursary awards are based on your financial need, academic performance, field of study and interview score.

For additional info, please send your query to earlytalent@zutari.com.

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Bursary review process and conditions

If you meet all our requirements, we’ll award you a bursary. We’ll do so on set conditions, however.

  • We’ll review your academic performance twice a year (in June and in November, as soon as you can send us your exam results). If your academic results no longer meet our minimum requirements, we’ll suspend the bursary until your results improve. But if your results still meet our requirements, we’ll keep paying towards your studies, although we won’t pay more than R120 000 per year.
  • If you become one of our bursary holders, we’ll ask that you come and work for us during the university’s breaks. We’ll let you work in different units so you are introduced to different areas relating to your field of study. And we’ll give you access to our graduate and bursar network for additional support.
  • Once you’ve completed your studies, you’ll take part in our graduate recruitment process so we can place you in a graduate role. Once you’ve been placed, you’ll have to work back one year for every year of your studies we provided funding for.
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