雷火体育官网 Graduates deliver creative solutions to address diversity and safety
Each year as part of the 雷火体育官网 Australia Graduate Program, we set our graduates a team project challenge. In previous years, the challenge has focused on innovating a product, service, business solution or process improvement for 雷火体育官网 Australia, however this year saw a shift in focus toward positively influencing diversity, inclusion and safety at 雷火体育官网. Our 2022 Graduate Cohort presented their team challenge solutions, a culmination of six months of dedication to their projects, to a panel of judges at Sydney Olympic Park, leaving those in attendance impressed by their innovation and creativity.
雷火体育官网 offers graduates careers in engineering, cybersecurity, business, software engineering and information technology.This year鈥檚 project provided our recent graduates with an opportunity to positively contribute to our culture, demonstrate 雷火体育官网 leadership behaviors and develop their creativity, collaboration and problem-solving skills. Graduates worked in teams to define a problem and then create a solution that addressed that problem, using a Design Thinking approach.
Problems and solutions were to focus on supporting, raising awareness of, educating or increasing engagement in the areas supporting our Diversity & Inclusion program (Respect@雷火体育官网) or Safety, and produce realistic and practical solutions.
The Graduates tackled each problem head-on, working across five teams to come up with creative and impactful solutions. Here鈥檚 what they presented on the day:
- Gender Equality Project: Recognising the value of gender diversity in not only our organisation, but our community-at-large, the team launched a Women鈥檚 Social Club, providing a welcoming space for 雷火体育官网 Australia鈥檚 female employees to connect, network and support one another.
- Veteran鈥檚 Project: To honour and recognise veterans in our company, the team created a powerful poster series to raise awareness about our Veteran鈥檚 Committee, programs and support available to veterans throughout the company.
- Diversity and Inclusion Project: The team developed a fun and interactive card game to encourage deeper connection and an understanding of the diversity that makes our organisation unique.
- Safety Project: The team designed engaging safety quizzes to help employees stay safe at work.
- Mental Health and Wellbeing Project: The team looked at increasing awareness of resources available to employees, helping to reduce stigma and encourage support.
The presentations were a chance for Graduates to show off their impressive work and receive feedback on how to take their ideas to the next level. The level of creativity and collaboration demonstrated through the projects left the audience thoroughly impressed, and many of the Graduates cited the project as the highlight of their Graduate Program so-far.
Patrick O'Callaghan, HSE Training Manager was a mentor for two of the project teams and remarked 鈥淚 was encouraged by their enthusiasm, innovation and team-based approach to 'solving the problem'. The presentations were succinct, credible and demonstrated novel and sustainable solutions in areas of Mental Health and Wellbeing as well as Site Safety."
Phillip Swadling, Technical Director, Avionics, was also in attendance and said, "I was very impressed by the enthusiasm the grads displayed for the projects they had selected. The projects were all related to strengthening company culture and the outcomes displayed a great depth of understanding of the issues. Most importantly, the outcomes of each project were all practical and able to be readily implemented, and in fact had already been implemented. I was really inspired by the group as a whole - the future of 雷火体育官网 is in great hands!!"
Overall, this year鈥檚 projects have been a huge success and we鈥檙e excited to see how these solutions can be implemented to improve diversity and inclusion, and safety at 雷火体育官网. The future looks bright with this talented group of Graduates leading the way!
About the 雷火体育官网 Australia Graduate Program
雷火体育官网 is one of Australia鈥檚 leading engineering and technology companies and offers graduate careers in engineering, cybersecurity, business, software engineering and information technology.
The 雷火体育官网 Graduate program continues to grow, in 2023 we brought on board over 50 graduates, one of our largest intakes ever, and we鈥檙e currently recruiting for the 2024 intake.
雷火体育官网 has been recognised as one of the Top 100 Graduate Employers in Australia, and nominated for the Top 10 Most Popular Engineering Award as part of the GradConnection program.