Looking to kickstart your career or wanting a career change?
Here’s a fantastic opportunity to join our progressive, award-winning Civil and Structural Engineering team delivering sustainable projects for our communities, planet, and society.
We are looking for graduates with a passion for the built environment, and the desire to work in a highly collaborative multi-disciplinary team focused on sustainability, technical excellence, and shaping construction in the UK and overseas.
You will be developing your technical skills through taking on a variety of complex projects as well as being supported in the development of your softer skills through our early careers learning and development program: ‘The Learning Curve’.
What will you learn with us
* Project work at concept and scheme design, modeling, detailed design and specification, and drawing
* Preparation of reports, providing advice and guidance to clients and project teams
* Undertaking STEM engagement activities
* Liaising with internal and external team members, developing relationships and people skills
* Managing your own workload to meet project deadlines
* Engaging with the wider C&S division, the Technical leadership Team, and the Carbon Task Force to exchange best practices and processes and support ongoing initiatives
* Arranging and attending meetings, taking minutes, and distributing actions
* Attending and contributing to project team meetings
* Attending the site to undertake inspections and walkovers
* Developing commercial awareness by assisting with the preparation of proposals/tenders for new work
What you will need to succeed?
* A relevant degree, BEng (Hons) or BSc (Hons) or equivalent/higher.
* Humility, self-motivation, and enthusiasm.
* Excellent communication, presentation, and writing skills.
* To buy into Hydrock’s values and ethos
We are also keen to know if you can offer any of these attributes
* Sustainable urban drainage, biodiversity net gain, flood risk, and nutrient neutrality knowledge, or an interest in these fields
* Digital engineering skills, including coding experience related to design automation or other digitization improvements.
* Additional languages that you are fluent in or able to apply professionally, as well as English
* Relevant under or post-graduate industry experience
* Experience with relevant software tools e.g. AutoCAD, WinDES, PDS, Civil 3D, Infodrainage
* Full UK Driving Licence
* Student or Graduate Membership with the ICE and/or IStructE
What's great about Hydrock now Stantec
We are a multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy of over 900 staff in 21 offices across the UK. Our driving motivation is to be a ‘Force for Good’, as it is our aim to improve the quality of people’s lives from our employees to our clients, through to the communities we work in and our planet as a whole through the work we do.
What we can offer you:
* Inspiring and supportive colleagues
* Reward for progression and hard work
* An opportunity to develop your soft skills, as well as your technical skills
* Competitive starting salary
* Excellent health benefits 25 days of holiday (buy/sell up to five days), accrue 1 day extra every 2 years, with bonus holidays too!
* An earlier finish on Friday (4 pm!)
* An opportunity to give back: “Day off for good cause” (on a workday)
* A huge range of flexible benefits, including climate perks and an EV car leasing scheme
Looking for the next steps?
* Once you have completed your application through our careers site, we aim to review and respond to you as soon as your application has been reviewed.
* If shortlisted, a member of our Talent Acquisition Team will call you for an initial pre-screen by phone (typically 30 minutes) to help us assess your motivations and interest in the position and Hydrock now Stantec.
* If you progress following this telephone pre-screen, you will be invited to attend a formal interview by video conference (Microsoft Teams) or in our offices.