WSP graduate pathways explained

We leverage our global scale and local expertise to deliver remarkable projects that bring positive change. We inspire, guide and collaborate with our clients across over 100 sectors and 180 services. No matter the challenge, our teams envision future possibilities and bring them to life through technical know-how and innovations.

Combining entrepreneurial consulting capabilities with the best delivery teams, the Communities and Mobility team delivers services predominantly to the UK public sector, building on its traditional strengths in transport planning, highways, and local government advisory. The team is highly client-focused, with a strong capture-recapture capability and interdisciplinary client teams that enable agile responses to complex challenges.

We are solving some of the world’s biggest challenges: cleaning up past legacies, creating new developments that preserve and improve our environment, and finding ways to use and re-use resources. Our priority is to understand our clients’ needs and provide real solutions to real problems. We’ve built our reputation by helping our clients manage and reduce impacts, mitigate risk, and maximise opportunities related to sustainability, climate change, energy, and the environment. We create safe and Future Ready places where communities can thrive, and support every stage of the project lifecycle, from assessment and consent, through to design and delivery.

We help clients across all sectors, unlock opportunities to meet the rising demand in power, maintain secure and reliable energy and water supplies, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and deliver future schemes to help create a resilient and sustainable world.

Our Planning, Property and Advisory teams provide a range of services, whether it’s planning for new urban developments, promoting a new mobility or transport link, or delivering transformative utility infrastructure: we help shape places and projects now, and for the future.  

We provide consulting, front-end design, and advisory services into UK private sector clients with agile and empowered teams led by practitioners. We adopt the classic seller-doer model in each of our service lines, backed by strong commercial and operational support, with a broad range of higher-value clients across all major sectors.

Our services include:

• Economics;
• Engagement;
• Planning;
• Funding advisory;
• Viability;
• Land and property services;
• Technical support for planning including transport planning;
• Civil design for development including utilities support;
• Ratings, valuation and occupier services;
• Market-leading support in digital, data, asset management and transformation;
• Infrastructure & Core Investment Advisory

Combining our entrepreneurial consulting capabilities with the best delivery teams in the UK public sector market.

We are technical leaders in rail, highways, transportation, civil infrastructure and bridges. For the first time in a generation there is a political consensus that infrastructure investment is vital and serves an enduring purpose. At all levels of UK government, projects are being taken forward that support sustainable economic growth, decarbonise the movement of goods and people, and modernise the services received by end users. In short, projects that make the UK’s infrastructure Future Ready. We are ready to respond to this growing market for our services, from both our public sector and private clients.

We are engineering, design, sustainability and specialist discipline leaders across all building sectors. The drive towards decarbonisation, digitisation and regeneration of our built infrastructure is generating significant multidisciplinary opportunities for which we are ideally suited. Projects large and small are the backbone of our workload for both the public and private sectors. We apply our expertise and the collective ingenuity of our people to create future ready places for clients and communities across the UK and beyond.

Our Finance team support the business in a number of ways through:

• Understanding financial performance;
• Planning, analysis and decision support;
• Accounting and reporting;
• Finance Shared Services (Accounts Payable, Billing Support, Credit Control, Supply Chain); and
• Payroll, Financial control and compliance and Tax, treasury and cash management.