Graduate Programme - Local Government; Engineering

Locations & Services

• Communities – Lincoln (Highways Engineering)
• Communities – Cardiff (Structures & Infrastructure)
• Communities – Norfolk (Highways and Infrastructure Engineering)

We are looking for graduates for our Communities Engineering teams, who have a flexible approach and an appetite to learn in a leading engineering and professional advisory services consultancy. We want you to enjoy working in a collaborative environment where you can apply your skills working for a diverse range of clients and projects.

A little bit more about your role and the team… Our communities teams provide local authorities with advice on everything from transport to urban regeneration, flood risk to securing funding. The Communities teams in which we are recruiting for civil and structural engineers are based in Lincoln, Norfolk, and Cardiff.

Our teams work on some notable assignments in the UK, and you will be helping deliver projects such as:

• Lincolnshire County Council
• Norfolk County Council
• Rhondda Cynon Taf Council
• Merthyr Tydfil Council
• Bridgend Council

As a graduate, you'll play an important role in supporting the Lincoln team in the delivery of efficient and effective highway schemes. Helping with the design of new, and the maintenance of existing, infrastructure projects from footways and cycleways to major junction improvements and bypass schemes. The development of these schemes will be from concept to completion, including supervision of construction.

Your work will be varied and reactive to the team’s priorities. You will fulfill a pivotal role in completing projects that deliver real benefit to people’s lives.

• Undertaking investigations, site inspections, data collection and analysis, scheme design and development, along with supervision of construction.
• Preparing technical design solutions in accordance with approved design procedures.
• Preparing technical documents and drawings for checking and approval.
• Agreeing delivery targets with senior staff and reporting regularly on progress towards milestones.
• Managing the delivery of your own projects with minimal supervision.

This Local Government team delivers essential transport and infrastructure upgrades across the region, supporting economic growth, resilience, and sustainability.

• Inspections of essential infrastructure.
• Preliminary design calculations.
• Writing up of optioneering and feasibility studies.
• Gaining hands‑on experience of developing solutions to problems.

• Learning and utilising drainage modelling software to prepare existing and proposed drainage networks, preparation of design drawings via the use of AutoCAD.
• Attending site visits with designers to get an appreciation of the realism of site and constraints.
• Attending design team and client meetings to gain an understanding of the design process.

WSP provides our clients, Norfolk County Council, with professional services across highways and infrastructure. Our integrated design teams, made up of WSP and council staff, plan and prepare works including highway improvements, structural maintenance, and routine upkeep. We also manage the bridges and structures team, overseeing inspections and maintenance programmes.

• Assisting in the planning and drafting of highway improvements and structural maintenance schemes.
• Participating in on‑site inspections and evaluations to inform design and maintenance decisions.
  
  Preparing documentation that supports engineering decisions, compliance, and project tracking.

You will join an enthusiastic and supportive team, providing you with a challenging and fulfilling career. In this team, you will be dealing with internal and external stakeholders, collaborating with colleagues, and adapting to dynamic project environments.

Our two‑year Graduate Development programme is designed to support personal and professional…