Zutari

Zutari is a pan-African engineering and infrastructure consultancy, working across civil, structural, electrical, and other engineering disciplines on projects throughout Africa and the Middle East. Headquartered out of Dubai's International Financial Centre with offices across more than a dozen African countries plus Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE, the firm engineers infrastructure ranging from buildings to energy and water systems.

Zutari runs its Engineering Bursary Programme as part of a broader Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategy, alongside vacation work, work-integrated learning, internship, and graduate programmes that together form a full pipeline from student to professional engineer. The firm reports that youth make up a meaningful share of its workforce and tracks metrics like the proportion of permanent roles held by women, reflecting a deliberate focus on building a more diverse engineering talent base.

Because Zutari operates across so many African markets, bursars who join the firm after graduating get exposure to infrastructure projects well beyond South Africa alone.