Graduate Civil Engineer 2022

Do you enjoy solving real-life problems and creating a positive impact on society? Do you want to work flexibly in a way that empowers you?

Amey is one of the top five support services suppliers in the UK. We employ 14,000 people, have a turnover of £2.1bn and a strong forward order-book. Every household in Britain benefits from the work we do. We maintain the UK’s road and rail infrastructure, keep schools safe and clean, manage the UK’s defence estate, safely escort prisoners and keep prisons and courts secure. All of this is underpinned by our leading consulting capabilities which uses engineering design and data analytics to better manage the services we all use and rely on.

At Amey, we value collective expertise, but also the spark one person can bring. There’ll be experiences as original as you are in a career at Amey. Whether it’s working on the biggest bridge in the country, learning to get to grips with the latest technology, or just working with a great group of people, you’ll find what gets you out of bed in the morning at Amey.

Our Opportunity

As a Graduate Civil Engineer here in Amey Transport Infrastructure, you’ll have the unique opportunity to bring high-profile, highway maintenance projects to life. You’ll be given real responsibility from day one, joining a small delivery team of big thinkers who love finding solutions to difficult problems. Your design/delivery solutions will have impact, making a genuine difference to people’s lives, often in the very community where you live.

Based from our Aylesford offices, your two-year Graduate Development Programme provides a unique opportunity to gain invaluable experience working alongside our professional and dedicated delivery team of Project Managers and Supervisors, on our major highway maintenance contract with Kent County Council.

You’ll get involved in all aspects of our contract activities. We’ll develop your understanding of our various work schemes that form the annual programme of work for the client, helping to create these programmes, engaging with the design team, through to delivery on site.  You’ll engage with our Commercial team on budgets and costings, our Project Managers to ensure Health and Safety requirements are met along with our clients and members of the public and other external stakeholders.

You‘ll be analysing scheme data and trends to provide opportunities to improve our existing processes and identify new ways of working, to ensure we operate in the most organised and efficient way possible.

As you can tell, it’s an exciting and complex role! No two schemes are ever the same, so you’ll constantly learn and develop, gaining new skills and knowledge to deliver the fantastic results that a high profile and socially valuable Highways Maintenance contract demands.

What you will bring

As a Graduate we don’t expect you to bring prior experience of the highway maintenance industry with you when you join us; we will give you all the skills and opportunities to become a technical expert that you could hope for.  However, we want you to share our passion and demonstrate your desire to develop yourself within this exciting area.

We treat people as individuals and want a workforce as diverse as the communities we serve. We therefore keep our essential requirements to a minimum, but there are a few things needed to qualify for our programme:

• Minimum 2:2 BEng in Civil Engineering
• Available to join the programme from April 2022
• Passion for developing your skills both professional and personally, including commitment to complete the appropriate professional registration in your field (i.e. Chartership – CEng)
• Highly developed IT, data analysis, communication and presentation skills
• Excellent interpersonal and team working skills, with evidence of practical problem-solving capability
• Self-motivated with the ability to plan and prioritise time
• A full valid UK Driving Licence is desirable.

If you possess the determination, initiative, and curiosity to become a technical expert in your field, or one of our future leaders, then our graduate development programme could be for you.

What you'll receive in return

We place great value on all our people and the contribution they make to our business, so it’s important that our rewards make us all feel valued here. That’s why we recognise individual needs and offer a flexible reward and benefits package that puts you first, including;

• Starting salary of £26,500
• Exceptional development and progression plan
• A “buddy”, to assist you as you settle in, and an industry expert as a professional mentor, to guide you towards achieving professional qualifications/accreditation
• You will join our Early Careers Community which will provide you with peer-to-peer networking activities, involvement in a range of social value and extra-curricular activities
• A range of benefits including a flexible benefits scheme which includes access to buy additional annual leave, cycle2work, and gym memberships; online voucher portals which give you access to thousands of discounts with online retailers; and social value benefits which include the ability to volunteer for a charity of your choice, participation in the DofE award, and support for fundraising initiatives.

You’ll be stretched, but always supported, surrounded by people who want you to thrive and embrace new challenges, recognising your hard work and looking out for your wellbeing.

For more information, why not take a look at our Early Careers Hub where you can find out more about our recruitment process, our various Programmes, the benefits we offer, our Social Value commitments, Wellbeing and Support Services, along with a whole host of other useful information about how you would be part of our Early Careers community here at Amey.