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Your window into a better future
We are AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. When you join us, you'll help create world-class sustainable solutions that connect people, data, and technology. We're transforming infrastructure and energy systems, growing partnerships with our clients, and bringing the most complex projects across the globe to life.
Our global team of 36,000+ employees speak over 70 languages and represent 130 nationalities across six continents. Our work covers a variety of sectors, including transportation, infrastructure, environment, water, energy, defence, technology and aerospace.
Join our Placement Scheme where you'll be trusted with complex work and supported by your peers, line managers and senior leaders. Through a combination of on-the-job learning and practical skills development within your chosen role, you’ll work on real projects from day one that offer scale and variety, collaborating with others and creating meaningful impact on the world around us.
Reaching your full potential means being able to bring your whole self to work and feeling like you belong. Find out more about our global programme Different makes a difference.
Where you could work
You could join the following business areas
Transportation:
By combining traditional engineering and new innovative technologies, our teams make journeys easier, safer, and more reliable while supporting a greener and more productive society. Our work spans the full transport ecosystem across Bridges & Civils, Highways, Rail, Central Rail Systems Alliance, and local transport projects. You'll feel a sense of pride working with our clients, such as Highways England, Network Rail and Transport for London - to name a few.
The Transportation division in AtkinsRéalis brings together the capabilities of our Highways and Rail teams into a single business of 3,000 talented professionals. You will be working within the Intelligent Mobility and Smart Technology (IMST) consultancy practice alongside over 70 specialist professionals contributing to the development of future transport.
The IMST team assists public sector organisations in a wide number of activities, providing ‘whole life’ consultancy in the following areas:
- Digital and Smart Roads – consultancy advice on smart motorways, digital roads, traffic detection, stopped vehicle detection, enforcement, and management of severe weather.
- Emerging Mobility – taking an end-user and outcome-focused approach to connecting people, places and services using data, technology and innovative ideas, and applying these to develop Digital Demand Responsive Transport (DDRT), Mobility as a Service (MaaS), electric vehicle solutions and data strategies.
- Intelligent Transport Operations – advice on transport operations, including the intelligent management of traffic, road charging, enforcement of roads, bridges, tunnels, city cordons and HGV/Truck monitoring.
- Transport Technology Advisory – consultancy advice on traffic signals and control systems, transport data analytics, public transport technology and smart ticketing.
Your Role
Industrial Placement locations: Birmingham
Find out more about our Transportation teams and locations.
Join us as a placement student in our Intelligent Mobility and Smart Technologies practice and be part of something big. We’ve a growing range of clients, and we need many different skills and capabilities to deliver projects for them. We believe that diversity is the key to success and makes us stand out from the crowd, and therefore are searching for students from a variety of degree types and backgrounds to join our team.
Key areas of responsibility may include:
- The delivery of high quality, innovative client solutions as part of a team
- Data processing, technical report writing, requirements gathering
- Project management support for small-to medium sized projects
- Assisting in the development of consultancy offerings, bids, and propositions
- Technical consultancy and assurance, and growing your area of technical expertise
We link ITS with future-focused technology opportunities, working across the transport sector to help our clients navigate a rapidly changing world. We have market-leading capability in motorway control systems, toll road systems, urban traffic control, traffic operations, traffic signalling and smart ticketing. We blend this with thinking and advice on emerging trends and growing areas such as digital highways, mobility as a service (MaaS), big data and data exploitation, electric vehicles (EVs), and connected and autonomous Vehicles (CAVs). We deliver projects that push the boundaries of transportation and consider road safety, human factors, and scientific behavioral research as complimentary disciplines to our established technical practice.
What you’ll need?
- An understanding of the consultancy environment
- To embrace equality, diversity and inclusion in everything you do
- A desire to work collaboratively with a curious approach, challenging yourself to find new solutions
- Enthusiasm and drive to develop your skillset and seek out development opportunities within a supportive team
- Motivation to achieve professional accreditation (where applicable)
- To be comfortable embracing agile ways of working and learning new technologies
Degree Requirements:
On track to achieve a bachelor’s or master’s degree (minimum 2.2).
We are keen to hear from people with a wide variety of academic backgrounds including but not limited to: All engineering and similar degrees, Analytics, Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Data Management, Data Science, Economics, Engineering, Environmental Science, Geography, Human Factors, Information & data, Mathematics, Operational Research, Physics, Science, Social Sciences, Statistics, Systems Engineering, Transport Economics, Transport Management, Transport Planning, Transport Studies
Location
Birmingham
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PL-184
Salary range
£26,228 - £30,784
What you can bring
- A passion for working in a consultancy environment
- Championing a culture where everyone belongs
- A desire to work collaboratively with a curious approach, challenging yourself to find new solutions
- Enthusiasm and drive to develop your skillset and seek out development opportunities within a supportive team
- Motivation to achieve professional accreditation (where applicable)
- Comfortable to embrace agile ways of working and learning new technologies
- Commitment to spend a minimum of three days a week in the office or on client site (project dependent). Being together in person helps us build stronger relationships, collaborate more effectively, and accelerate your learning and development.
Meeting your needs
Join our vibrant early careers community, with plenty of brilliant opportunities; from skill‑building to social events, charity challenges, social clubs, and much more. Join any of our employee networks for social interaction, peer support and personal development.
We aim to promote a workplace which allows our people to perform at their best. As well as ensuring you’re rewarded for your efforts, we have a variety of initiatives to create a healthy workplace and support your well-being including access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing you with immediate and confidential help for any work, health or life matters.
Each year, our top performing placement students (who’ve done at least 8 weeks on placement with us) have the opportunity to be nominated onto our Graduate Development Programme. If you’re nominated, you’ll bypass the standard recruitment process and be offered a place on the programme.
To view all our benefits, visit our Total Rewards portal.
Our placement salaries are between £24,570 and £28,808 depending on role and location.
How do I apply?
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Not sure if AtkinsRéalis is the right fit for you? Try our Match Me Tool before applying. It’s a quick, interactive way to explore how your working style and preferences align with our culture. You’ll get instant feedback to help you decide whether to apply.
Also check out our Connectr platform for tips and advice on applying - you can even message your questions directly to one of our mentors.
We’re a Disability Confident Employer and can make adjustments to support you to perform at your best during the recruitment process. Please contact us confidentially at [email protected] to find out how we can support you.
Our deadline for applications is Thursday 4th December 2025. However, as our placements are incredibly popular apply early as some roles may close sooner.
More about us
AtkinsRéalis is a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We design and deliver major projects on the built and natural environments all around the world. We believe that digitally enabled engineering has the power to radically improve the way we are all housed, connected, powered, and protected and can change our relationship with our communities and our planet for the better. We are committed to building a culture where everyone belongs – a place where you can all be yourself, thrive and reach your full potential.
Additional information
This role may require a security clearance, and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at the interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role, please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application details of any current or previously held security clearance.
Due to current Government immigration salary thresholds, AtkinsRéalis do not sponsor any skilled worker visas for our early careers programme as the Home Office's eligibility criteria would not be met. Given the length of our early careers programme AtkinsRéalis requires applicants to have the right to work in the UK (without sponsorship by AtkinsRéalis) for the duration of the programme. Applicants should ensure they can meet this requirement prior to making an application. For more information, please visit our International Students page.
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