Civil Engineering - Transportation

Locations: Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Derby, Edinburgh, Epsom, Glasgow, Leeds, Swansea, Swindon.

As a member of our Bridges & Civils team you’ll gain experience of all phases of design and assessment including initial concept designs, further design development and construction support.

Within this exciting and varied role you’ll undertake a variety of technical tasks including:

• Technical report writing
• Design calculations
• Structural analysis
• Computer aided modelling (including BIM)
• Drawing preparation
• Site inspections and supervision and
• Other project related task

Further opportunities may include project management, secondment roles, as well as gaining inter-disciplinary project experience.

You will be involved in our focus on decarbonising the transportation sector, as we play a key role in enabling the UK to meet its long-term objectives in reaching net-zero, whilst also helping our clients to align their projects with the UN’s sustainable development goals.

Our teams work together on a broad array of important projects within the Strategic Highway, Strategic Rail, and local transport markets. You’ll have the opportunity to work on innovative infrastructure projects such as the Bletchley Flyover in Buckinghamshire, the Govan to Partick Swing Bridge in Glasgow and Haverfordwest Pedestrian bridge in Pembrokeshire.

As you collaborate on projects across the country and worldwide you will work with colleagues from a variety of backgrounds and cultures. As AtkinsRéalis is a global company there may be opportunities for overseas working to gain a better understanding of the whole project lifecycle.

Our graduate scheme provides a variety of experience including technical, management, commercial and leadership to enable a fulfilling career with AtkinsRéalis. The scheme will enable successful candidates to develop towards chartership with a relevant institution such as the ICE and IStructE.

Locations: Aylesbury, Birmingham, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Manchester, Newcastle, Stockton, Trowbridge.

As a valued member of our Highway Infrastructure team, you’ll gain exposure to the fundamentals of highway, active travel and traffic engineering, including roads, public transport, cycle and pedestrian facilities. In this varied role you will develop yourself within technical, management, commercial and leadership areas to give you a well-rounded introduction to the working world of Civil Engineering.

Upon joining the highway practice you’ll gain experience of all phases of infrastructure design, from initial concept design through to detailed design and construction. We’ll empower you to develop your skills within a technical role, undertaking a variety of project-related tasks including technical report writing, site visits and surveys, computer aided modelling and drawing preparation.

You will carry out all of the above tasks with the continued support of more senior engineers within the team who will willingly share their knowledge and expertise to help you progress in your career.

Our teams work together on a broad array of projects within the local and strategic highway markets which recently includes a large number of sustainable transport / active travel projects transforming transport infrastructure while providing net-zero emissions, helping to achieve the UK's sustainable development goals by encouraging and enabling people to travel more healthily, safely and sustainably.

We offer opportunities to carry out exciting secondments to gain a better understanding of the project lifecycle. This may include project management or construction, as well as the chance to work within other disciplines such as bridge, geotechnical and environmental engineering.

We work collaboratively across the country, so you’ll be involved in projects with colleagues from a variety of backgrounds and cultures. As AtkinsRéalis is a global company there may be opportunities for overseas working.

This varied graduate scheme will enable successful candidates to develop towards professional qualification with a relevant institution such as the ICE and CIHT, providing you with a sponsor to help you understand and complete the requirements every step of the way.

Locations: Crewe, York

As a valued member of the Central Rail Systems Alliance (CRSA) Civil Engineering team, you will work alongside multi-disciplinary engineers to develop and deliver design solutions for major railway infrastructure projects across the country.

The Central Railway Systems Alliance (CRSA) brings together the collective strength of the four parent companies – AtkinsRéalis, Balfour Beatty, Network Rail and TSO – to develop, design and deliver rail systems renewals and railway enhancement projects across the large geographic regions of the Northwest and Central and Eastern regions, from London to the Scottish Border.

CRSA designs encompass all elements of the Railway System to support complex renewals of railway junctions and stations. You will gain exposure to the AtkinsRéalis design cycle from optioneering through to detailed design and construction, building a strong technical foundation in the principles of engineering design and proficiency in CAD/CAM. This role will also enable you to build relationships and work collaboratively with key partners across the Alliance and gain hands-on engineering experience at our project sites.

As a graduate design engineer, you can expect to be given the responsibility to work both on your own and as part of a team, while receiving the guidance and mentorship you need in order to develop. We will support you in your journey towards professional registration with a relevant institution and provide you with a mentor and graduate “buddy” to aid your growth. CRSA provides graduates with the unique opportunity to be involved in design and delivery on some of the UK’s most exciting rail systems renewals and enhancement projects, and the variety of work provides a once in a lifetime opportunity for exciting career development.

Locations: Dartford, Leatherhead, South Mimms

AtkinsRéalis, Balfour Beatty and Egis Road Operations UK are part of a consortium, creating Connect Plus Services, a unique partnership with a collective strength in highways asset care from finance, through to design, build, maintenance as well as day to day operation. As part of our 30-year remit to manage and improve the capital’s orbital motorway network, we deliver major improvement projects, such as widening 38 miles of the M25, refurbishing tunnels and bridges, and installing hundreds of variable messaging signs and gantries, helping to maximise the use of the network and deliver more reliable journeys. We also manage the Dartford River crossing and operate and maintain 440 kilometres of motorway providing our customer and road user with a world-class highway service.

You will work with industry experts and gain exposure to a wide range of responsibilities which will include:

• Applying engineering principles to practicable design and management of highways assets
• Assisting in the delivery of Highway Renewals and Improvements including large and complex highways schemes to programme and budget.
• Monitoring and asset analysis to determine asset performance and management requirements.
• Helping to agree project briefs, programmes and budgets with Senior/Principal Engineer and Project Manager.
• Monitoring and asset analysis to determine asset performance and management requirements.
• Helping to agree project briefs, programmes and budgets with Senior/Principal Engineer and Project Manager.
• Monitoring designs delivered to the specifications set and to budget and programme.
• Assisting Engineers in carrying out site surveys on the network.

As an AtkinsRéalis graduate you will also work towards chartership and development as part of the graduate scheme.

Please note that you will need to be willing to travel to our offices and depots on the M25 network.

Locations: Derby

Railway electrification is pivotal to the government's strategy for decarbonizing the transport network and achieving net zero emissions by 2050. As a part of the Railway Overhead Line Electrification (OLE) Design team, you will play a central role in this initiative, offering comprehensive services that span from initial concept and feasibility studies to detailed design and implementation management. Additionally, our team provide on-site construction expertise and support along with consultancy and advisory services for rail electrification projects.

You’ll be a part of a team of a basic design team who design things from first principles and provide support to a wider team involved in electrifying new railway corridors; helping to provide design solutions for the structural and civil aspects of 25kV AC and DC railway electrification.

On a day-to-day basis you will be involved in:

• Calculating design loads for OLE foundations
• Designing new foundations for OLE structures
• Designing new components, conducting structural analysis for suitability of new components different SOFTWARE such as STAAD Pro
• Assessing the existing components/foundations for suitability
• Calculating the wind loads acting on different structure types
• Specifying the associated equipment from different design ranges
• Working on feasibility studies for provision of electrification of our existing network
• Technical studies/Investigative work to develop cost saving ways to implement electrification and heavy, metro/light rail and tramway electrification.
• Be on site to conduct surveys to assess the existing infrastructure

Our portfolio of projects includes a broad range of high-profile clients, including Network Rail, Transport Scotland, Transport for Wales, HS2 and Irish Rail. We also work on a number of international projects across the world supporting overseas railway infrastructure and metro projects.

We work collaboratively with colleagues across various OLE teams within the UK, US and our GTC teams in India, allowing you to work on projects across different global regions. Working on flagship projects is different countries may also provide the opportunity to work abroad, should this interest you.

All of this creates an interesting and varied pipeline of works that allows our graduates to develop quickly, backed by a well-established and strong technical network to support professional development and industry accreditation through chartership with professional institutions such as the ICE, PWI etc.

In Digital Asset Management, we help our road, rail, water and energy customers to get the most out of their built infrastructure assets. We provide the information they need to make key plans and decisions about the future, such as when to invest in their assets and what maintenance activities to prioritise. We help clients understand their data and bring it to life, using tools such as FME and Power BI.

We also advise clients on the implementation of national guidance and best practice, such as the uptake of risk-based approaches to asset management. This often involves working closely with clients to understand their needs and aspirations, followed by developing and implementing improvement or transformation plans. The projects we work on are varied, dynamic and stimulating, providing plenty of opportunity for new challenges and personal growth.

Opportunities are available in two of our sub-teams (please select the team names below within your application).

Pavements and Structures

Locations: Birmingham, Cambridge

• Provide pavement technical advice and support to various road authorities across the UK to help manage and maintain their road network.
• Technical delivery of a wide range of pavement design schemes, from feasibility studies to detailed design.
• Develop robust pavement design solutions to suit varying budgetary scenarios for both new construction and maintenance projects.
• Carry out pavement condition surveys and data analysis to develop optimal cost-effective maintenance design to deliver lowest whole life cost.
• Working on innovative research & monitoring projects to assess materials performance to improve pavement durability and efficient scheme delivery.
• Promote low carbon materials and support the achievement of net zero.
• Provide support in the development of asset management approaches for pavements.
• Development and implementation of decision support tools and lifecycle planning. 

Strategic Advice

Locations: Birmingham, Manchester

Within our Strategic Advice team your responsibilities will include:

• Providing advice to infrastructure owners in the development of their asset management policies, strategies, and overall improvement plans to achieve efficient asset management.
• Providing technical and contractual advice to Local Authorities, Department for Transport and Strategic Transport Authorities across the UK.
• Working with infrastructure owners to help them assess risk and improve the resilience of their networks and their assets.
• Developing and producing national asset management guidance.
• Working as part of strategic change, service redesign or improvement programmes focused on asset management.
• Working with strategic and local transport authorities to better understand the value of the assets they own.