Elevate your business with Engineers Australia
Strengthen your workforce through strategic partnerships
Partnering with Engineers Australia gives you an unparalleled resource to build your engineering workforce. Through renowned credentialling, tailored training and targeted programs, we support engineering excellence across industry, government, defence and education.
With skilled engineers who are supported to do their best, our partners can navigate change with confidence.
How organisations benefit
Credibility and recognition
Development and retention
Attraction and recruitment
Ways to partner
Workforce credentialling
Engineering Workforce Credentialling partners receive personalised support in managing credentials, registration and development for their workforce. Partnership offers competitive membership pricing over three years.
Service agreements
Offer flexibility for businesses with access to all the benefits of partnership, with the added benefit of self-management through online dashboards. There’s no defined timeframe for the agreement, and regular pricing applies.
Graduate partnerships
Give organisations a foundation to attract and retain young talent. Our client managers offer hands-on support and access to a host of learning, networking and development tools – including career-first post-nominals.
SME solutions
From recent graduates to experienced engineers, there’s a range of resources to support your team at every stage of their career. Support extends beyond our membership option, meaning you can tap into exactly what your organisation needs without an ongoing commitment. View our small business page for more information.
Credibility and recognition
Chartered credential
Chartered credential
The Chartered credential is the highest technical credential for an engineering professional. It’s nationally and internationally recognised and signals an independently verified level of skill, talent and experience.
Credentialling your engineering workforce demonstrates your organisation's commitment to excellence.
National Engineer Register
National Engineer Register
The NER is a comprehensive directory that recognises engineers who meet the high standards required to excel in their respective industries. As a publicly searchable database, it’s designed to help individuals and organisations discover your qualified pool of engineers.
The NER credential showcases the skill, talent and experience of your teams – and you don’t need to be a member of Engineers Australia to apply.
Engineering Executive
Engineering Executive
This highly regarded credential recognises exceptional leadership and talent in executives across the engineering sector. Those invited to apply – both engineers and business leaders – must demonstrate the leadership and management competencies for EngExec.
Micro-credentials
Micro-credentials
Engineers Australia offers micro-credentials for specific competencies and skills. These credentials demonstrate that an engineer’s capabilities meet an industry standard and can unlock potential in your team in as little as a few weeks.
Development and retention
Membership
Membership
Our members are recognised as respected engineering professionals and receive Engineers Australia post nominals.
Gain the backing and resources of the national body for engineers. Engineers Australia membership gives your teams ready access to webinars, collaboration platforms, technical material, up-to-the-minute news updates and much more.
Graduate Program
Graduate Program
This award-winning professional development program equips graduates with the skills they need to excel in the modern workplace, including self-management, communication, project management and problem solving.
It’s an opportunity to attract and retain the best talent as you expand your team’s skills, boost their potential and build their commitment to your organisation.
Emerging leaders program
Emerging leaders program
Supplement your existing graduate program and foster rising talent in your organisation. The Emerging Engineers Leadership Program is for engineers with three to six years of experience and bridges the gap between graduate capability and the Chartered credential.
Short courses
Short courses
Invest in the growth and development of your teams with specialist and customisable training across each industry.
Choose from more than 100 live-classroom style or self-paced short courses to build technical, project management, business and interpersonal skills. Learning also contributes towards continuing professional development hours.
View the course catalogue to explore what's on offer.
Attraction and recruitment
Global Engineering Talent
Global Engineering Talent
The Global Engineering Talent program aims to fill the talent gaps in the engineering workforces by transitioning overseas qualified engineers into Australian businesses.
This 18-week program covers Australian workplace standards and provides local work experience – giving overseas qualified engineers the relevant skills and knowledge they need to hit the ground running.
Jobs board
Jobs board
Get your vacancies in front of more than 40,000 student and graduate members. Our jobs board can help you fill your graduate program, internships, vacation placements, work experience and early career roles with the young engineers your organisation needs to thrive.
Start by setting up a free employer account with Prosple, then follow the steps to post vacant roles to our jobs board. You can receive applications directly to your inbox or via your organisation’s tracking system.
Elevation
Elevation
Our career expo, held across seven locations in March each year, puts your business on front of thousands of student and graduate engineers. Elevation is not your ordinary career expo. It focuses on deepening connections and providing development opportunities for our future engineering pipeline.
Our partner's thoughts
The partnership between Engineers Australia and Douglas Partners through the EWC program is invaluable. It enhances our engineers’ skills and recognition, particularly in achieving Chartered which is a testament to their expertise and dedication.
For Douglas Partners, this collaboration not only elevates our workforce’s capabilities but also aligns with our business goals of delivering grounded solutions for the built environment, with local capability and world class talent.
Douglas Partners
EOS Defence Systems is proud to partner with Engineers Australia to help our engineers gain formal qualifications and recognition through the EWC program.
We know that our engineers bring exceptional technical knowledge and skill to their roles at EOS Defence Systems and we recognise that having our engineers gain Engineers Australia accreditation gives them market-place credibility and status. Our engineers value this accreditation and, in return, value us as their employer for helping them gain their credentials.
We need skilled and qualified engineers to achieve our business goals. The EWC program helps us enormously in this regard.
Director Human Resources, EOS Defence Systems
The EWC program is delivering great value for our engineers and our business. The streamlined process to achieve accreditation and the support Engineers Australia has provided to our people along the journey has been a terrific experience.
This collaboration to assist our people in achieving Chartered strongly aligns with our value of People – Enabled. Empowered.
Engineering Manager, Cromarty Automation
Consolidated Power Projects partnership and collaboration with the EWC has been transformative and instrumental in achieving our status within the engineering industry. The support and expertise from Engineers Australia has streamlined the Chartered process and significantly enhanced our operational efficiency, directly contributing to our business goals.
Chartership for our engineers has significantly boosted their professional development and our business significance. Engineers Australia has been instrumental throughout the process, making it incredibly easy for our engineers to navigate and achieve Chartered. It has been an absolute pleasure dealing with Engineers Australia.
Vice President (Engineering), Consolidated Power Projects
By investing in their professional development through Engineers Australia and providing opportunities for growth, we not only enhance their careers but also ensure that we continue to deliver exceptional value and innovation to our clients.
Our commitment to excellence alongside Engineers Australia is reflected in the success of our engineering workforce, and we are excited to build on this foundation for the future to continue supporting the warfighter.
Recruitment and Marketing Lead, AeroPM
Our partnership with Engineers Australia has been invaluable. Their commitment to professional development empowers our engineers through Chartered and continuous learning. This collaboration enhances our team's expertise, particularly our graduates, directly contributing to our business goals.
Engineers Australia's industry leadership and our shared vision for excellence make them an ideal partner in driving innovation and success.
Early Careers Advisor, Wood
Engineers Australia’s graduate partnership provides our young professionals with valuable networking opportunities, industry insights and ongoing professional development. This collaboration enhances and complements our Stantec graduate program, supporting the company’s vision for excellence.
The graduate team has been there every step of the way, offering information sessions, in-person drop-ins, and prompt responses to questions. Their commitment to making support and resources accessible to our graduates across Australia has been invaluable. Effective communication is the cornerstone of any successful partnership, and Engineers Australia excels in this regard.
Intern and Graduate Program Advisor, Stantec