Civil Engineering - Infrastructure

This scheme is now closed and we are not accepting applications.

The AtkinsRéalis Building Structures practice are looking for talented graduate structural engineers to help deliver some of the world's most challenging and exciting engineering projects across sectors including; Education, Commercial, Residential, Defence, Energy and Transportation.

We apply technical excellence to the built environment and deliver creative solutions to complex problems to make a more sustainable world. Our collaborative and diverse team of engineers utilise an intelligent digital approach to efficiently design using steel, concrete, masonry and timber, as well as more innovative materials and modern construction methods.

As a graduate structural engineer within our team, you may be involved in:

• Working within multi-disciplinary teams to develop and deliver designs of buildings and infrastructure. Your deliverables will include technical and carbon calculations, reports, whole life cycle assessments, drawings, models and presentations. Your creative input will be sought from day one into all project stages from concept design through to detailed design. 
• Representing AtkinsRéalis when undertaking structural inspections on site and presenting at client and design team meetings.
• Assisting project managers with design leadership and day-to-day management of project programmes, budgeting and stakeholder coordination.
• Providing engineering support during the construction stage by reviewing drawings for conformance with design and specification and observing construction procedures under the guidance of experienced senior engineers.
• Researching and analysing alternative design approaches to develop sustainability led solutions.
• Developing your own specialist skills to enhance the breadth and depth of the service we offer to our clients.

There will be further opportunities to:

• Work in other AtkinsRéalis disciplines such as facade engineering, civil engineering, geotechnical engineering, transportation, security and research & innovation.
• Lead and coordinate our multi-disciplinary graduate events and arrange Continuing Professional Development (CPD) events.
• Get involved in our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion networks.

Locations: Derby, Epsom (Surrey), London, Bristol
Requirements: Minimum 2:2 relevant Fire Engineering degree discipline.

The AtkinsRéalis Fire Engineering Team are looking for talented graduate fire engineers to help deliver some of the world's most complex and exciting engineering projects across sectors including: Education, Commercial, Emerging Technologies, Defence, Energy and Transportation.

We deliver technically excellent fire engineering solutions across the built environment and providing creative solutions to complex problems to design a more sustainable world. Our collaborative and diverse team of engineers utilise an intelligent digital approach, alongside modern construction and design methods to deliver innovative fire strategies.

As part of this, you will have the opportunity to liaise with external designers and other construction and building professionals on a wide range of projects; experience and develop your ability to use fire-specific design techniques; conduct research in a variety of skills groups; and have the opportunity to visit sites to monitor the implementation of fire strategies and learn about the installation and construction of fire safety systems.

As a graduate structural engineer within our team, you may be involved in:

• Developing the project fire engineering design for a range of project types.
• Undertaking Material compliance assessment to ascertain compliance to the various requirements associated with Reaction to Fire and Fire Resistance performance.
• Undertaking and witness fire testing, whether that is reaction to fire or Fire resistance testing. 
• Developing costings for fire engineering deliverables, track the spend of a project vs the overall project progress.
• Engaging with the client and approval authorities to ensure that the design produced is acceptable to all parties.

Our multi-disciplinary team is one of the largest in the UK, providing Water and Wastewater Infrastructure services alongside Drainage Design and Surface Water Management. We work across a wide variety of clients, both within the UK and internationally, including water companies, local authorities, highways /rail authorities, and developers. We offer two career pathways. Please state in your application which role is your preferred option:

Graduate Civil Engineer:

Locations: Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Epsom (Surrey), Glasgow

Degree disciplines: Civil engineering or environmental engineering

You will work alongside industry-leading experts on diverse projects that allow you to improve the environment around us, and find innovative, low-carbon solutions to maintain and enhance critical water-based infrastructure, both within the UK and around the world. Examples of some of our typical projects you may get involved in (although this will vary by local team workload/expertise) are:

• Sustainable Drainage (SuDS) Design / Surface Water Management Planning to manage surface water runoff sustainably within our communities.
• Conceptual, Outline, and Detailed Design of Drainage for large-scale, Development/Transportation and Energy Projects.
• Conceptual, Outline, and Detailed Design for new and replacement water mains and wastewater infrastructure.

Our Graduate Civil Engineers will be involved in the following (although experience in these areas will be beneficial, they are not pre-requisites for joining us):

• Producing Design Calculations (both simple “hand-calculations” & Hydraulic Models using QGIS / Microdrainage / Causeway Flow).
• Drawing and 3D BIM Model Creation (using AutoCAD / Civils 3D / Microstation) to aid multi- discipline coordination and construction.
• Report writing (using Microsoft Office applications) to inform clients / key stakeholders of our proposed technical solutions. Presentation of solutions as part of internal and client meetings.

Graduate Modeller:

This scheme is now closed and we are not accepting applications.
Degree disciplines: Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Science-based Geography

We expect our Graduate Modellers to be involved in the following:

• Catchment analysis and surface water planning (utilising GIS and ICM packages) Water / wastewater modelling utilising Infoworks / Infowater Packages, and bespoke in-house software (e.g., NetCreate)
• Data analysis and development of new digital tools (using coding packages such as Python, Excel / VBA, and presentation tool such as Power BI)
• Report writing (using Microsoft Office applications) to inform clients / key stakeholders of our proposed technical solutions.
• Presentation of solutions as part of internal and client meetings.

Locations: Manchester, Glasgow

As a graduate civil engineer, you will support across the whole project lifecycle solving complex engineering challenges on a diverse range of rivers, coastal, dams and maritime projects. You will learn alongside a dynamic team of experienced engineers, developing your understanding of infrastructure in the water & marine environment.

Your responsibilities will include reporting writing, drawings and design development, calculations and usage of engineering and modelling software. You may be assessing the feasibility of an infrastructure project, undertaking the outline or detailed design of a scheme, or the site supervision of construction tasks. We work with a range of UK & international clients including the Environment Agency, Water Companies, Ministry of Defence, New Nuclear, Ports, investment banks and major developers.

You could be working on projects in the following areas:

Rivers
River engineering including flood alleviation, river channel design, and safe passage of fish and eels
Design of hydraulic structures including weirs, sluices, barrages and tidal gates

Dams & Reservoirs
Ongoing repair, remediation and improvements works to assure the safety of existing infrastructure
Outline & detailed design of new strategic reservoirs to support growing water demand in the UK

Coastal Infrastructure
Numerical modelling of coastal processes, ports and harbours
Design of sea defences & Erosion risk protection – such as walls, embankments, breakwater, groynes rock

Maritime
Port planning, input to financial studies, container & general cargo terminals, Cruise terminals Seawater intakes & outfalls (for power stations, desal plants and industrial developments

Day to day duties include:

• Collaborating with senior engineers and multidisciplinary teams to design and analyse a wide range of water related infrastructure projects
• Performing calculations to inform the design– including the use of UK & international standards, Microsoft packages, coding, and industry-wide software.
• Undertaking feasibility, optioneering and impact assessment studies to assess options, designs and requirements of projects
• Writing technical reports for the outline and detailed design of proposed works
• Working alongside technicians for the creation of design drawings
• Liaising with client and suppliers regarding project work
• Presenting project updates, findings, and recommendations to clients and stakeholders during internal and external meetings.
• Attending sites, inspecting asset conditions and accompanying senior engineers on-site

This scheme is now closed and we are not accepting applications.

As a Civil Engineering graduate with a demonstrable interest in airports and/or pavements, you’ll be given opportunities to work on a variety of airport-related design projects. This opportunity would suit a graduate with ambitions to work in the aviation industry, joining a group of passionate industry experts within an already well-established team. Our Airports team supports Civil Engineering graduates through our Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) training scheme.

Key responsibilities include:

• Engineering design of runways, taxiways and aircraft aprons
• Pavement rehabilitation projects to extend the life of runways, taxiways and stands
• Planning of airfield development projects
• Airfield asset surveys to understand pavement condition
• Writing technical reports and presentations
• Involvement at project meetings including meetings with clients.
• Improving sustainability in the projects including carbon assessment and reduction
• Promoting digital developments in the Aviation Engineering sector
• Sound numerical skills including experience of using complex spreadsheets and databases

This scheme is now closed and we are not accepting applications.

Join our accomplished team specialising in resolving critical engineering problems in structural dynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and stress analysis. We employ advanced techniques, including finite element analysis and software tools to predict the behaviour of civil engineering structures and mechanical components. To support our major projects and clients we continually invest in our staff, providing and developing state of the art tools – most recently with the growth of the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) team.

Based in either our Epsom or London offices, you will collaborate across inter-disciplinary teams to find innovative solutions for our clients, whilst developing expertise in areas such as stress analysis, structural dynamics, thermal analysis, vibration monitoring, seismic engineering, blast and impact assessment, and more.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Simulating structure and component behaviour using computational models. Investigating dynamic characteristics through calculations.
• Ensuring high quality output by following quality assurance procedures.
• Writing of technical reports.
• Coordinating with other engineers on multi-disciplinary projects, to understand analysis or design requirements, and explaining analysis results and their influence on other aspects of the project.
• Engaging with clients and stakeholders.
• Engaging with technical and digital networks within the organisation to share knowledge and best practice.

Join our team to unlock your full potential in an established consultancy with a friendly team environment. We’re committed to providing an inclusive culture, based on trust and transparency, where you’ll be encouraged to collaborate, share ideas and listen to different perspectives, ensuring our continued success.

Locations: Belfast, Birmingham, Exeter, Derby

Our civil engineering teams work together to create all kinds of infrastructure, from smart cities and large- site developments, nuclear power stations and dockyards, to water and wastewater treatment works, pipelines and water networks. Our people plan, design, and oversee construction on projects of all sizes large and small, in the UK and internationally. We enjoy a variety of work, collaborating with clients across sectors including energy, water, cities and development, aviation, and defence, to deliver high-quality, sustainable, and innovative solutions.

Joining our team, you might help to tackle pollution with innovative wastewater treatment and sustainable drainage systems, design residential and commercial urban development schemes, coordinate complex utility routing and functional road networks, or deliver essential drinking water systems to communities – all making a positive impact to people’s lives.

You’ll be supported to develop general civil engineering skills across water and wastewater, utilities, drainage and physical security, giving you the flexibility to work across various industries, develop your collaboration skills in multidisciplinary project teams and build you stakeholder management techniques with senior management and the Client.

The key responsibilities include:

• Solving a wide variety of civil engineering challenges, including pipeline construction, Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS), pumping stations, road and highway design, utilities design, physical security measures, structures, and hydraulics.
• Collaborating and engaging with project stakeholders, Clients, other engineering disciplines and AtkinsRéalis colleagues both UK and overseas.
• Applying on the job and external training to further develop your career via AtkinsRéalis supported ICE Chartership programme.
• Developing technical reports, drawings, calculations, and presentations.
• Applying sustainable practices within your design responsibility to actively reduce your project’s carbon impact - contributing to the business’ Net Zero targets!
• Understanding and applying industry and company design standards and guidance.
• Actively considering health and safety as a core principle within your role, both on-site and in design.
• Engaging and promoting digital and innovate practices to gain value for the Client.
• Contributing to continuous quality improvements within your team and business.

Locations: Belfast, Exeter

Our civil structures teams work globally on all kinds of infrastructure, from nuclear power stations to defence facilities to reservoirs and tidal barriers. Our people plan, design, and oversee construction on large and complex projects, in the UK and internationally. We enjoy a variety of work collaborating with clients and stakeholders across sectors including energy, defence and water to deliver high-quality, sustainable and innovative solutions.

Joining our team, you could be planning the construction of a nuclear power station, solving complex engineering challenges of a submarine maintenance facility or designing a major tidal barrier to protect homes and businesses from flooding – making a positive impact on both people’s lives and the environment.

You will be supported to develop your civil engineering skills in structures and construction, giving you the flexibility to work across various industries in multidisciplinary project teams. Our team supports and actively encourages the progression of Civil Engineering graduates through our Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) training scheme.

Key responsibilities include:

• Supporting design teams in some of the UK's largest projects. Contributing to the design of complex concrete and steel structures utilising seismic, 3D reinforcement detailing or blast analysis.
• Collaborating and engaging with project stakeholders, other engineering disciplines and AtkinsRéalis colleagues both UK and overseas.
• Applying on the job and external training to further develop your career via AtkinsRéalis supported ICE Chartership programme.
• Developing technical reports, drawings, calculations and presentations.
• Applying sustainable practices within your design responsibility to actively reduce your project’s and the industry’s carbon impact.
• Understanding and applying industry and company design standards and guidance.
• Actively considering health and safety as a core principle within your role, both on-site and in design.
• Engaging and promoting digital and innovative practices to innovate the industry.
• Contributing to continuous quality improvements within your team and business.

Locations: Belfast, Bristol, Cambridge, Croydon, Manchester.

Degree requirements: Minimum 2.1 Bachelor’s / BEng in Engineering Geology and Geotechnics or 2.2 Master’s / MEng in Ground Engineering, Civil Engineering, Engineering Geology, Soil Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering, or related subject

As a Graduate Geologist, or Geotechnical Engineer on our prestigious graduate programme you could be involved in one of the most exciting sectors in civil and environmental engineering. You’ll help to support and deliver the technical aspects of a variety of engineering and multidisciplinary designs across a range of challenging and exciting projects in the UK and internationally.

Our Ground Engineering team is committed to providing world class geotechnical and engineering geology services to infrastructure and global energy clients, focusing on the engineering behaviour of the ground for complex new build and asset life extension projects. You’ll get involved in a broad range of activities including site investigation, 3D ground modelling, geohazard & terrain evaluation, earth structures, foundation design and ground improvement, in both the onshore and offshore environments.

Key duties include:

• Desk studies and site reconnaissance
• Site walkovers and inspections
• Specification, planning and procurement of ground investigations
• Supervision of ground investigation works on site
• Checking of factual geotechnical data obtained from ground investigations and associated digital data management
• Development of conceptual and observational ground models
• Writing of interpretative reports and derivation of geotechnical parameters for design Geotechnical design and associated reporting

Locations: Epsom (Surrey), London

Degree requirements: Minimum 2.1 Bachelor’s / BEng or 2.2 Master’s / MEng in Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering, or related subject

As a Graduate Tunnelling Engineer on our prestigious graduate programme you could be involved in one of the most exciting sectors in civil and environmental engineering. You’ll help to support and deliver the technical aspects of a variety of engineering and multidisciplinary designs across a range of challenging and exciting projects in the UK and internationally.

Our team provides technically excellent engineering design of tunnelling, underground, and heavy infrastructure, particularly focused on mass transit, rail and major project programmes. You’ll be supported by a team with expertise in assessment of ground movements, design of complex foundations and ‘ground- contacting’ structures, in addition to the assessment of ventilation and fire life safety aspects of utilising underground space. Here you’ll get the opportunity to take on a wide range of interesting activities, including site work, design, asset impact assessments, life cycle/risk assessments and project management.

Key duties include:

• Tunnelling design and associated reporting
• Micro-tunnelling (HDD, Pipejacking, direct pipe)
• Large tunnels (TBMs, SCL, Square works..)
• Ground movement assessment and impact assessment o Tunnel Principal Inspection and Asset management
• Shafts, tunnel’s portals ancillary structures
• Undertaking feasibility studies
• Specification, planning and procurement of tunnels projects
• Working with specialist software to support planning programmes
• Supervision of construction works on site

This scheme is now closed and we are not accepting applications.

Degree disciplines: Environmental Science, Environmental Economics, Environmental Engineering, Geography, GIS, Hydrology, Hydrogeology, Maths, Physics, Civil Engineering, Aquatic Ecology, Marine Sciences, Water Management

Operating at the interface between people and the water environment, we work with our clients in the UK and around the world in providing innovative design solutions, research and advisory services for a sustainable future.

Our key services include: water resources and water quality planning; hydrogeology and groundwater management; flood risk management; natural capital and environmental economic appraisal; hydrology; hydraulic and coastal flood modelling and flood risk scheme appraisal; coastal and marine environmental appraisal; integrated catchment management; hydromorphology; river restoration, aquatic ecology, natural flood management and nature-based solutions; environmental, hydraulic and civil engineering; regulation and assurance; strategic asset management; and data analytics.

Day to day activities include:

• Contribute to projects with a water management focus, particularly alongside one of our key services, as well as a wide variety of projects across the environment business. 
• Field/survey work in support of projects
• Provide input to the development and refinement of new and existing digital tools that quantify and illustrate environmental impacts and the value of nature to people in a clear and visual way
• Wider data analysis and report writing as part of project work, including creation and presentation of information in GIS 
• Involvement in supporting business development through our win work/ bidding process, in addition to the successful delivery of key tasks on projects 
• The role is focused on achieving and delivering technical excellence