Graduate Transport Planner

Your impact

Join the Jacobs Graduate Development Programme (GDP) and have a meaningful, positive impact on our environments, communities and societies. Bring your passion, your ingenuity and your vision. Let’s see the impact we can create, together.

Our Graduate Development Programme is a structured two‑year scheme designed to support your development at the start of your Jacobs career journey. Through a combination of blended learning, mentoring, progress reviews and networking, you will establish yourself as knowledgeable and competent across four key focus areas: human skills, consulting skills, champion our strategy and your passions.

The Graduate Development Programme allows you to customise your learning journey to reflect your specific interests, career goals and technical skillset – creating a graduate experience that is unique to you.

The GDP is an experience programme, meaning that a large portion of what you’ll learn will be on‑the‑job. You’ll work with your manager and mentor to collect the learning experiences that will be most meaningful for you.

The programme is more than just a steppingstone. It’s a launchpad for your career, offering you the tools, experiences and support you need. Join us and unlock your potential as you work on meaningful projects and collaborate with industry leaders to deliver outcomes and solutions for complex challenges.

The Graduate Transport Planners/Engineers will join our Transport Planning and Mobility Solutions team which is part of our Cities & Places business unit. We can create thriving places across different scales from regions to cities, neighbourhoods to sites, by offering an integrated design approach. Our business unit brings together transport planners, engineers, architects, designers, surveyors, urban designers and project managers to provide collaborative and coordinated value design solutions for our clients both nationally and internationally.

Our team skillsets cover the full remit of transport planning across all modes; from high level policy and strategy advice through transport modelling/appraisal to active travel, streets design, traffic engineering and junction design. We are interested in hearing from candidates who are keen to develop a rounded set of skills, as well as those who have more specialised interests including but not limited to traffic engineering, active travel scheme design and transformational placemaking, transport decarbonisation, traffic management solutions or public transport schemes for example.

You will have the support of a mentor, our management team and experts who will help guide your progress. You will also be given the opportunity to pursue relevant business and technical training to support your career development, as well as room to grow your network and knowledge base to create innovative solutions.

• Be working towards a Degree or Master’s level qualification in Transport Planning, Urban Planning, Data/Computer Science, Mathematics/Statistics, Physics, Natural Sciences, Civil Engineering, Economics or Geography.
• Hold a keen interest in transport planning and/or traffic engineering topics, such as healthy streets, walking, cycling and public transport planning, transport policy/strategy, transport modelling/appraisal, junction improvement, placemaking etc.
• A flexible self‑starter who is keen to drive your career forward.
• Adaptable to change, with a thirst for learning new things.
• You must have the permanent right to work in the UK.

• Step 1:
  Apply Online
• Step 2:
  Solo Video Assessment
• Step 3:
  Interview

• A flexible workstyle, embracing a hybrid working pattern and supporting those who need to balance work/life commitments a bit differently than others.
• Free single medical cover and digital GP service.
• Reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.
• A focus on safety, health, and wellbeing, prioritising our people through a culture of caring and a positive mental health champion network.
• Opportunities to give back to our communities through our Collectively programme, incorporating…