Build a career with room to grow.

Whether you’re studying, starting out or bringing years of experience, Icon offers opportunities to build capability, take on new challenges and progress your career across projects, sectors and regions.

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Choose your pathway

Find the path that fits where you are today.

Graduates & cadets

Gain practical experience and turn your study into real project experience through structured development and support.

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Experienced careers

Bring your expertise to complex projects, develop new capabilities and take the next step in your career.

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Graduates & cadets

Start your career on real projects.

Whether you’re still studying or ready to begin your career, Icon’s Graduate and Cadet Program combines structured development with hands-on experience across live projects.

You’ll work alongside experienced teams, build practical construction knowledge and gain exposure to different parts of the project lifecycle, with clear pathways to keep progressing as your capability grows.

What you’ll experience

  • Hands-on experience on live construction projects

  • Exposure to estimating, design management and contract administration

  • Experience across safety, quality and site supervision

  • Mentoring and learning from experienced project teams

  • A pathway into graduate and ongoing roles

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Early-career placements

Cadetship and internship opportunities across live Icon projects.

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Opportunities across the business

Build experience across Icon’s core sectors, disciplines and project teams.

Graduate & cadet program

Start your career with real experience.

Whether you’re still studying or ready to begin your career, Icon’s Graduate and Cadet Program combines structured development with hands-on experience across live projects.

The Graduate & Cadet Program

Work alongside experienced teams on live projects, build practical construction knowledge and take on real responsibility as your capability grows. The program connects study with project delivery and creates a supported pathway into ongoing roles at Icon.

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Career story

Mike Read, CEO/Managing Director

The graduate program gave me the chance to learn by doing. I was trusted with real responsibility early, supported by experienced people and able to see a clear path for where I could take my career next.

Liam Chen

Site Engineer · Joined Icon as a Graduate

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Experienced careers

Bring your experience. Build what’s next.

Bring the expertise you’ve built to complex projects across Australia. Whether you work on site, in project delivery, a specialist discipline or a corporate role, Icon offers room to broaden your experience and keep progressing.

Where you can build your career

  • Project and site management

  • Design, commercial, quality and safety

  • Engineering, estimating and pre-construction

  • Corporate and specialist functions

  • Cross-project, sector and regional opportunities

  • Leadership and senior management pathways

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People across Icon

A broad team working across disciplines, sectors and regions.

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Active projects

Opportunities to contribute across different sectors, regions and project types.

Career development

Build on your experience. Broaden where it can take you.

Experienced careers at Icon are not limited to a single role or project. Build deeper technical capability, develop as a leader, move across sectors and regions, and take on greater responsibility as your career evolves.

Career opportunities

Experienced people work across project and site management, design, commercial, estimating, engineering, quality, safety and corporate functions. Whether your expertise is technical, operational or business-focused, there are opportunities to contribute where your experience can have the greatest impact.

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Career story

Mike Read, CEO/Managing Director

I came to Icon looking for bigger challenges and the opportunity to keep developing. The scale of the projects, the strength of the teams and the room to lead have given me exactly that.

Priya Nair

Senior Project Manager · Experienced hire

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