Graduate Civil and Structural Engineering Career Path: Water

Cambridge, GB London, GB Glasgow, GB Sheffield, GB Reading, GB Edinburgh, GB Bristol, GB Leeds, GB Brighton, GB

Contract Type:
Permanent

Work Pattern:
Full Time

Market:
Water

Job

Recruiter Contact: earlyca

Before making an application, please browse all graduate opportunities available as we will only accept one application per candidate.

Once you have made an application you will not be able to make changes to your selection or make a new application.

The exception is if we open new vacancies in the new year.

CVs and cover letters are not required as part of the application process. Candidates will be assessed through a single-stage strengths-based interview.

Start your career with a global, employee-owned consultancy where your work can make a real difference. At Mott Mac Donald, you'll work alongside experts, contribute to meaningful projects, and have the support, learning opportunities, and experience needed to grow your career from day one.

Job Description

Engineer a Better Tomorrow
- For People, Planet, and Progress

At Mott Mac Donald, we're not just designing infrastructure—we're shaping the future of water. As a wholly employee-owned company, we have the freedom to focus on what truly matters: delivering social outcomes, empowering our people, and protecting the communities and environments we serve.

As a Graduate Civil Engineer, you'll join one of our specialist teams
- Water Engineering or Dams & Reservoirs, each playing a vital role in solving complex challenges and delivering sustainable solutions that improve lives and safeguard the environment.

Join our Water Division, a centre of excellence tackling climate change, ageing infrastructure, and population growth. You'll contribute to safe, sustainable water systems for generations to come. We have opportunities for those with civil and structural engineering degrees.

What You’ll Do:

Design pipelines, water and wastewater treatment facilities through feasibility, outline, and detailed stages.

Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver integrated, sustainable solutions.

Support projects from planning and modelling to construction, commissioning, and handover.

Use digital tools to enhance design quality and efficiency.

Grow your technical and project management skills through mentoring and training.

Dams & Reservoirs
- Protecting Communities and Resources

Be part of a legacy of innovation in dam and reservoir engineering. You'll help design and assess critical infrastructure that supports water supply, flood protection, and hydropower.

What You’ll Do:

Develop conceptual, preliminary, and detailed designs for dams, spillways, intakes, and drawdown facilities.

Undertake hydraulic and structural analyses, contributing to flood studies and emergency planning.

Attend site inspections and monitoring activities for hands‑on experience.

Prepare drawings, reports, and specifications that shape real‑world outcomes.

Gain exposure to project, commercial, and client management.

Rivers and Flooding

Plays a key role in helping communities and the environment become more resilient to flooding and the challenges posed by climate change. You will work on projects that improve our understanding of rivers, catchments and flood risk, supporting the development of sustainable solutions that protect people, property and the natural environment. Working alongside multidisciplinary teams, you will contribute to projects that enhance river health, improve water management and deliver lasting environmental benefits.

What You’ll Do:

Supporting projects that reduce flood risk and improve the resilience of communities and infrastructure.

Analysing environmental, hydrological and flood‑related…