Graduate Programme - Planning & Development - Civil

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, while building a career as unique as you.

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 line. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives, while building a career as unique as you.

We are looking for graduates to join our Development & Infrastructure teams in 2027. This is an opportunity to work in a leading engineering and professional services consultancy, helping shape how places grow and change by supporting new developments that connect people, communities, transport networks and the wider built environment. You’ll contribute to projects from early feasibility through to planning consent and technical design, helping develop practical, sustainable solutions that make new communities, employment spaces, regeneration schemes and major developments possible.

Development Planning
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Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Cardiff, Guildford

Development Infrastructure
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Manchester, Liverpool, London, Basingstoke, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Birmingham

As a graduate in our Development Planning and Development Infrastructure teams, you’ll help shape how places grow and change, supporting new developments that connect people, communities, transport networks and the wider built environment.

In Development Planning, you could support projects from early feasibility through to planning consent, contributing to areas such as transport planning, access strategies, active travel, development layouts and impact assessments.

In Development Infrastructure, you could help develop the technical design needed to make development possible, from roads, drainage and utilities to wider site servicing and enabling works. You’ll build practical engineering solutions for new communities, employment spaces, regeneration schemes and major developments, working closely with planners, environmental specialists, transport consultants and designers.

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• You will have, or be on track to achieve, at least a 2:2 in a relevant bachelor’s or master’s degree. Please check the degree backgrounds considered for our graduate roles via our Graduate Website:
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• You will be looking to start work in September 2027.
• You will be interested in how development, transport and infrastructure shape sustainable places and communities.
• You will be keen to learn about transport planning, active travel, layouts, drainage, utilities, roads and site infrastructure.
• You will enjoy using data, technical information and problem-solving to support planning and engineering design.
• You will communicate clearly and collaborate with planners, engineers, specialists, consultants, designers and clients.
• You will be…