Graduate Urban Designer

Start Date:

September 2025

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Our graduate GROW programme is a structured 3-year programme, designed to help you evolve and develop skills to become an experienced professional in your chosen field. You’ll benefit from training and development, mentoring, and assistance foraccreditations relevant to your programme, as well as the support and guidanceyou need to develop and succeed.

As a GROW graduate you will be empowered to drive your career and will be exposed to a variety of experiences to assist you in gaining the skills you require to succeed.

As an architecture and urbanism graduate joining GROW, you’ll be working within a diverse, award winning team of Architects and designers, working on making our vision for a sustainable future real. You will help drive toward architectural innovation, sustainable solutions and digital leadership with greater focus and scale. You’ll work on a range of projects, from the planning of smart, sustainable, urban environments, to the creation of lifestyle-led, commercial, education, healthcare, retail, mixed-use and public assets, ensuring we deliver positive impact.

Urban Designer – As a Graduate Urban Designer, you will have the opportunity to work on a range of master planning and urban design projects with UK and global clients, both in public and private sectors, as well as an opportunity to be involved in UK and global urban regeneration projects. Working within a project team you will assist in the delivery of project-related tasks, and you will work as part of wider multi-disciplinary teams, undertaking master planning projects and assisting with deliverables and reports.

As well as receiving professional supervision, you will work in collaboration with other disciplines and acquire the knowledge and practical skills through on-the-job learning to develop your knowledge.

• Accepted degrees; BA, BSc, MA or MSc in Architecture, Urban Design or Landscape Architecture

• You will be graduating in 2025 or have recently graduated with at least a 2:2 in an accepted degree
• You will demonstrate typical Arcadian skills including Resilience, Creativity, Analytical Thinking and being a Team Player
• You will have excellent communication skills and the ability to use your technical knowledge to influence and consult stakeholders
• Willing to travel and stay away from homewhen required (where possible we embrace virtual working)

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas.

Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Work streams:
Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.