Training & Personal Development at Stantec Australia

In-house training components - including technical & other skills such as writing, communications, health & safety etc. External training for work specific requirements

Firstly lot of software skills. A bunch to be honest.

Informal training is good, formal is training is not well put together.

The Grad program Grad Labs were good and very interesting. There is a lack of internal electrical training available and limited opportunity to seek external training.

Overall, the majority of training at the company is informal. The more formal forms of training (e.g. parts of the graduate program) can be difficult to absorb given that some do not have that much practical relevance.

My team members trained me on various software.

Formal training sponsored, involving workshops for softwares (DRAINS, 12d etc. in the stormwater space). Frequent internal company lunch and learns covering technical topics such as hydrology, dincel walls etc. or general development topics like time management, negotiation etc. On the job training through talking with more senior engineers.

Outside of my immediate team training me, there has been minimal training since I've started.

Except the online training, the face-to-face training and development programs is not formal and enough.

I believe the current training is good, but there could be more opportunities to learn new skills.

Stantec has a formal grad program with competencies for progression to the next career level. They also have a 'Grad lab' - a couple of days of training for your first two years - soft skills and high level business training. Stantec also has regular 'lunch and learn' training seminars both online and in person, on a variety of topics that you can attend as you choose

Time to time training on the softwares. My technical skills have developed a lot since I have joined Stantec. I have learned to work on software packages such as TUFLOW, QGIS, XP-rafts, MUSIC etc. Besides this, my writing skills have also improved a lot.

I am very statisfied with the trainings provided by the company particularly with the informal trainings by my colleagues/teammates.

The graduate program is awful and pointless. Grad labs are the most boring, waste of time and nobody I have spoken to has enjoyed it. They have no idea what graduates need or want and they refuse to spend any money on us. they couldn't even buy us lunch for full days of training. It's an absolute joke. If I didn't have excellent design training within my project teams I would leave stantec purely based on this terrible terrible program. They really have no idea how to run a graduate program and it is shown by the poor graduate retention in my sector.

There are only Grad labs, which are one day events per year. There are some self learning modules and resources for grads but besides that, training is fairly poor.

I have received both internal and external training and all of the experiences have been pleasant. The graduate program for the Environmental graduates could be improved slightly but other than that, the job specific training that I have received from Ben my team lead and Stantec in general has been quite good. I do believe you are the maker of your own success, if you would like to grow and develop new skills the training is available at Stantec, you just have to be the driver of that in some respects.

I would have appreciated some more diversified training opportunities as a graduate to get to know more of the sector outside of purely approvals and assessment

A lot of the formal training and induction trainings were very broad and some didn't cover all bases. The informal training is quite good my managers and team members really care that I understand it

Mostly self-led. Courses are great but you have to seek most of them out yourself but can get good recommendations and industry professionals do occasionally come in for presentations.