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Since Cubic’s graduate program launched in 2013, the program has absolutely flourished. What started with only three graduates working with the Sydney Test and Operational IT teams, is now a critical source of talent, with multiple intakes per year working with teams in all Australian sites.
The graduate program is a structured 18-month program with opportunities for graduates to rotate between different departments and experience “a day in the life” of a range of Cubic teams. Many graduates go on to hold senior roles within the company and in turn mentor their newer teammates.
Not only does the graduate program offer an exciting opportunity for new team members to learn and advance their skills, they drive innovation through bringing new ideas and creative methods of problem solving to the company.
The graduate program provides real-life, hands-on experience.
The success of the graduate program has never been more evident than through the work of Cubic graduates on the recent launch of contactless payments (CTP) for bus in New South Wales (NSW).
This was a challenging project involving a major update to existing Cubic bus validators to accept credit cards and an upgrade to the back end to calculate fares and introduce fare parity with adult Opal discounts. It was an extraordinarily important project for our customer and Government as it marked the final piece of the contactless rollout. The completion of which would make NSW the first location in both Australia, and the southern hemisphere to have successfully launched this technology, allowing customers to pay for their travel with credit card, mobile phone or wearable.
The CTP engineering and test team more than rose to the challenge.
Featuring representatives from every graduate intake since 2014, the team worked seamlessly together to meet tight deadlines and ensure a quality solution was delivered to our customer.
It is great that members of previous graduate intakes mentored newer team members, enabling them to rapidly learn and gain competencies in a very short time. Their professionalism and willingness to go the extra mile to win the customer truly demonstrates the excellent ethos and culture nurtured within the graduate program and the engineering team at large.
Congratulations to our past and present Cubic graduates: Michael Tao, Sheen Sam, Thimira Gunasekera, Vitalii Pinchuk, Danny An Nguyen, Nicolas Wong, Andrew Chow, Vincent Ching, Liam Kennerson, Yunus Razi, James Lee, Minh Chau and their fellow CTP team members Vilay Soukhavong, Vince Cheng, Shamindra Goonesekera, Liam Cleary, Jacques De Jager and Bhavini Panchal, Jonee Loyola and Robert Najdovski.
Cheers to a job well done.
