Graduate Programme - Communities - Local Government; Engineering

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We are looking for Graduates for our Communities Engineering 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:

• Communities – Gloucestershire (Bridge Engineering)

• Communities – Lincoln (Highways Engineering)

• Communities – Exeter (Highways and Bridge Engineering)

• Communities – Cardiff (Structures & Infrastructure)

• Communities – Norfolk (Highways and Infrastructure Engineering)

Across the UK, our communities teams provide local authorities with advice on everything from transport to urban regeneration, and flood risk to securing funding. The Communities teams in which we are recruiting for Civil and Structural Engineers are based in Gloucestershire, Lincoln, Norfolk, Exeter and Cardiff. As we work in partnership with local councils, we are unable to offer adaptability on these locations.

We improve our clients’ transport systems, increasing quality, safety, accessibility, and good connectivity to reduce social isolation. We help our clients to address the challenges of net zero and the demand for digital service delivery. We also help to address the intensification of cities and towns while satisfying the need to protect green space. The training you will receive within our Communities teams comprise of an excellent blend of public and private sector skills.

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

• Lincolnshire County Council

• Gloucestershire County Council

• Norfolk County Council

• Rhondda Cynon Taf Council

• Merthyr Tydfil Council

• Bridgend Council

Gloucestershire (Bridge Engineering)

As a Graduate Engineer working with the Communities Bridges team in Gloucestershire you will help manage an asset of over 1,500 structures across the county and will have the opportunity to be involved in the inspection, design and supervision of bridge maintenance and replacement projects. You will be supporting the team with the implementation of Gloucestershire County Council's asset management plan and bridge improvement programme.

Graduates in this team benefit significantly in their learning and development through their involvement from the very outset of projects, and at all stages through design to construction, working closely with colleagues, contractors and clients to ensure successful outcomes.

Day-to-day activities could include:

• Inspection of existing structures.

• Production of options reports.

• Carrying out bridge assessments.

• Design of bridge maintenance and improvement schemes.

• Production of works packages and contract documents.

• Supervision of works.

Lincoln (Highways Engineering)

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 fulfil a pivotal role in completing projects that deliver real benefit to people’s lives.

Day-to-Day activities could include:

• Undertaking investigations, site inspections, data collection and analysis, scheme design and development, along with supervision of construction.

• Preparing technical design solutions in accordance with…