Graduate Civil and Structural Engineering Career Path: Energy

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.

At Mott Mac Donald, we believe engineering is more than just infrastructure—it’s about shaping a future that’s resilient, inclusive, and sustainable. As climate change challenges our environment and communities, civil engineers are at the heart of creating solutions that protect natural resources, improve lives, and foster economic and social growth for generations to come.

• Transmission & Distribution
• Nuclear and Defence
• Hydropower

You’ll work alongside experienced professionals on projects that matter—helping to create better cities, reduce poverty, and improve public health. You’ll be immersed in a collaborative environment where your ideas are valued, and your growth is supported.

You will play a key role in designing and delivering the infrastructure that powers the UK’s transition to Net Zero. With the growing demand for renewable energy, your work will help ensure clean energy reaches homes, businesses, and even international markets through interconnectors to Europe.

You’ll be directly involved in the design of critical infrastructure that supports the transmission of low-carbon energy across the UK.

Play a vital role in delivering safe, sustainable, carbon-free power. Our teams work across nuclear new build, existing generation, decommissioning, waste management and defence-related programmes, helping clients solve highly regulated technical challenges throughout the project lifecycle. Working in this area offers the opportunity to contribute to safe, sustainable, carbon-free power and critical national infrastructure, while being part of a trusted team committed to safety, innovation and long-term impact.

Focusing on the development and delivery of renewable power projects that generate electricity from water, including conventional hydropower and pumped storage schemes. Projects typically involve dams, reservoirs, tunnels, waterways, powerhouses and associated civil, structural and electro-mechanical infrastructure. Working in hydropower offers the opportunity to contribute to low-carbon energy, energy security and resilient infrastructure on complex projects in the UK and internationally.

• Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) and Detailed Design phases
• Civil works design, including platforms (earthworks, embankments, retaining walls), access roads (temporary and permanent), and drainage systems (SuDS, Info drainage)
• Structural design, covering foundations, beams, columns, and connections
• Feasibility studies and optioneering exercises to identify optimal solutions
• Site visits to assess conditions and support construction phases

At Mott Mac Donald, we’re looking for curious, motivated graduates who want to make a real difference. Join our purpose-driven teams where your ideas matter, your growth is supported, and your work enhances the world we live in.

To be eligible for this opportunity, you will haveless than 12 months’ relevant experience (excluding placements) and have a minimum of a bachelors degree (obtainedno earlier than 2025) or expected to achieve one of the following degree disciplines:

• Civil Engineering
• Structural Engineering

For some of our opportunities, a master’s degree is essential – this is reflected in the list of opportunities in the application form.

Some of these opportunities will require you to be eligible to achieve security clearance. Security…