Graduate Programme - Property & Buildings - Building Specialists

2026 Graduate Programme - Property & Buildings - Building Specialists

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

We are looking for graduates for our Building Specialists teams, who have an adaptable 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.

We are recruiting for graduates in the following services and locations:

• Fire Engineering:
  London, Bristol, Birmingham, Glasgow and Edinburgh
• Security Consulting:
  London, Leeds or Newcastle
• Façade Engineering:
  London and Manchester
• Advanced Structural Analysis:
  London

Working as a graduate in one of our Building Specialists teams will mean working on exciting and innovative projects. We are proud of the value we can add to any project through the application of our specialist knowledge to solve client problems. We pride ourselves on bringing the latest techniques to the table to ensure that clients get best‑in‑class service in what is an increasingly complex design and compliance environment.

You will be embedded in multidisciplinary teams and mentored by experienced professionals, gaining exposure to real‑world challenges and innovative solutions. You will be part of a supportive team culture where you’ll receive mentoring and guidance as you develop your skills.

• Monklands Replacement Hospital, Scotland
• Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle
• New Riverside Stand, Fulham FC
• Control Posts, Heathrow Airport
• Mayfield Republic

Our Fire Engineering team is involved in the development of the overall fire strategy for a building, which involves the design of fire protection systems within buildings including means of escape, building layout, smoke control, sprinkler systems, reaction to fire of construction materials.

Working as a graduate in our Fire Engineering team, you will be helping to protect buildings and occupants from the effects of fire and smoke by ensuring buildings are designed in line with Part B of the Building Regulations (fire safety). This is achieved by following relevant code guidance to produce fire strategy documents and other technical reports to demonstrate a building’s compliance or coming up with specific fire engineered solutions where following code‑guidance may not be feasible.

• Producing fire strategy reports for proposed and existing buildings.
• Writing technical design notes.
• Marking up architectural drawings to produce fire strategy plans that outline aspects of the fire strategy.
• Reviewing existing documentation relating to the above.
• Design team meetings – with disciplines both internally and externally, as well as site visits.
• Responding to fire‑related queries from other disciplines such as IT & Security, facades, MEP, structures, architects etc.

The Security Consulting team design and implement solutions that protect people, property and infrastructure from physical threats. The projects we deal with are iconic, ground breaking and bring different challenges everyday. We engage with the end clients, users and police services to ensure safer places to live and work in this time of global unrest. Our projects are global enhancing the overall reach of WSP so differing standards and local risks inform the measures proposed and provided therefore not all projects are the same with a diverse range of sectors within the working portfolio such as Defence, Government, sports, transportation and data Centres.

• Assisting with development of security strategies.
• Assisting with the development of threat, vulnerability risk assessments.
• Development of security…