Chevron Australia
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Cadetship Program (Nov 2025)
Perth, Perth
Opportunity details
- Internship, Clerkship or Placement
- AUD 60,000 - 70,000 / Year
- 5-20 vacancies
- Apply by 8 May 2025
- Start date 23 Nov 2025
What is Chevron’s Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Cadetship program?
Chevron’s Aboriginal Cadet Program supports Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students to successfully complete their university degree and gain valuable work experience in a leading international liquefied natural gas (LNG) business. Chevron partners with AFL SportsReady to provide a study allowance and 12-weeks of paid employment to students on the program.
Chevron’s Aboriginal Cadet Program provides an exciting opportunity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students to commence a rewarding career in the energy and resource sector.
This role will be based in Chevron’s new building at One The Esplanade.
Who we are looking for?
We encourage applications from motivated and talented Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander university students with a keen interest in the oil and gas industry.
We are looking to hear from candidates from the following areas:
- Engineering
- Data Science
- Information technology
- Earth science
- Human resources
To be eligible for the program you must:
- Be an Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent
- Identify as an Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and be accepted as such by the community in which you live or have lived.
- Be enrolled for their first undergraduate degree course and be studying full time study at an Australian university.
- Be available for a full-time work (Monday to Friday) throughout the duration of employment from 24 November 2025 until 19 February 2026 (with the week of 23 December off work)
- Be eligible to legally work and live in Australia permanently.
- Be committed to Chevron’s values of diversity and inclusion, integrity and trust, high performance, partnership and protecting people and the environment.
Benefits
The Chevron Aboriginal Cadet Program gives you the opportunity to participate in our industry-leading oil and gas projects while acquiring practical skills relevant to your field of study.
As a cadet with Chevron, you will receive:
- 12-weeks paid summer employment at Chevron Australia’s head office in Perth
- Annual study allowance of $12,000 (Commonwealth funded and paid by AFL SportsReady)
- Annual books and equipment allowance of $1,000 (Commonwealth funded and paid by AFL SportsReady)
- Ongoing professional support and mentoring
- Opportunity to be considered for Chevron’s Horizons Graduate Development Program upon completion of a relevant degree
- Participate in world-leading energy projects, advance your professional development and begin your career within an inclusive, collaborative and high-performing workplace.
- A commitment to supporting work-life balance with flexible working arrangements, optional hybrid working model including remote and in-office working, and a compressed working week (nine-day fortnight) where applicable.
- Direct industry experience, gaining exposure through working across Chevron Australia’s world class energy production facilities.
- Opportunities to attend multiple industry learning events to further your energy industry knowledge.
- A competitive remuneration package.
- Health and wellness offerings including fitness classes, gym access and mental health support.
Apply Now
To apply for our 2025/26 Cadetship Program, click ‘Apply’!
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- Business & Management +more
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
I work in IT infrastructure. Much of my day-to-day work focuses on compliance and audit preparation (patching, vulnerability prevention and mitigation), as well as upgrading and replacing systems and hardware.
Very satisfied with work, broad range of responsibilities with enough room to find my own interesting projects to work on.
Day-to-day I support frontline engineering in critical tasks to ensure we can maintain operation. This involves start to finish of making changes on sight, documenting them for traceability and ensuring value opportunities are targeted. As a process (chemical) engineer in a multidisciplinary role this requires high level of collaboration with SMEs and frontline team to ensure the integrity of non-process decisions and clearly convey the outcome of process checks/calcs.
About the employer
Chevron Australia
4.2
1,000 - 50,000 employees
Mining, Oil & Gas
One of the world's leading integrated energy companies, operating the Gorgon and Wheatstone LNG projects and an interest in the North West Shelf.
Pros and cons of working at Chevron Australia
Pros
The flexibility & hybrid work location options are very good and the condensed work week model of having every second Friday off is very nice.
I am given opportunities to work on interesting projects and further develop my skills.
Strong focus on supporting ongoing development of employees, including supporting additional tertiary education.
Great roles with real responsibilities, competitive salary, great work-life balance (9-day fortnight) and culture.
The culture within my direct [team] is friendly and collaborative. I am surrounded by the most supportive environment I've experienced in a workplace.
Cons
Working across timezones can be challenging.
Adoption of improvements can be slow, and finding relevant information can be difficult, due to the magnitude of available information across a range of internal sources.
Large company with people constantly moving around, so people don't know how systems work and why things were done the way they were.
Long graduate program.
Can be challenging working for a large company, lots of layers of management.