People Development

How do we develop you?

  • Work experience (full-time)
  • ECSA development (parallel to work)
  • Academic development (part-time, after-hours)

Work experience

  • Practical experience in large industries
  • Exposure to multi-million Rand projects
  • Exposure to state-of-the-art technologies (digital twinning, simulations, specialised mobile applications etc.)
  • Highly skilled mentorship (Mentors: 25 PhDs, 12 Pr Eng, 500+ years of experience)
  • Exposure to project, financial and human resource management
  • Technical writing and presentation skills
Colleagues having fun at cricket field, playing table tennis and darts

ECSA development

  • International passport: ECSA Engineers are acknowledged world-wide
  • Proven ECSA engineer-in-training programme
  • Training is done under an ECSA commitment (ECSA number: 20210016)
  • Professional engineers sign-off on training reports
  • Help with training reports, registration, application and interview preparation

Academic development

  • Academics are managed through a non-profit company, namely IPGIP
  • Excellent academic success rate (400+ postgraduate degrees)
  • Work is aligned with academic outcomes
  • Financial support through bursaries for part-time postgraduate studies: Honours or MEng degrees and follow-up with PhD/MBA degrees
  • Dedicated academic director
  • Academic support structure
  • Seconded University lecturers (with fully funded facilities paid by the Employer)

Employee wellness

  • People-focussed management strategy
  • Support for continuous professional development activities (training, conferences etc.)
  • Sponsored physical wellness activities (biking, swimming, gym, hiking, golf, body index measurements)
  • Life insurance and contribution to medical aid.
  • Canteen games room (pool, foozball and table tennis)
  • Social events (Gold Reef City fun days, go-carts, online gaming days, attend sporting events etc.)
  • Monthly office braai and year-end function