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Recently named as one of Glassdoor’s Top 50 Best Places to Work in the UK, at Arcadis you’ll be part of a community that encourages and supports you to thrive, to challenge everything, and to transform the world as we know it.
Our internships give you the opportunity to apply your skills and accelerate your learning from day one. As an Intern, you will be given an insight into one of our projects and work alongside technical experts, learning new skills and gaining new experiences. Technical experience is key in our sector, which is why we will provide you with the experience you require to enhance your studies and kick start your career. You’ll benefit from on-the-job training, mentoring, as well as the assistance you need to develop and succeed.
At Arcadis our mission is to improve quality of life for everyone. To do this we need your experience, your imagination, your passion, and your ambition. We need your ability to think differently and willingness to challenge the way we do things. Our success is driven by passionate and innovative people who sit at the very heart of our business, and all our interns, apprentices, and graduates are fundamental to this success.
Our internships last typically between 8 to 12 weeks and you’ll be working in our: computational design team, based out of Guildford.
Computational Design
Our computational Design team are incorporated into project teams and encouraged to use their computational design skills to develop or optimise processes used on real life projects. As a summer intern on a 10–12-week internship, you will work in collaboration with a diverse range of engineers, particularly, civil, structural, systems and data analysts.
The successful intern will work with experienced engineers who will guide and mentor them during their time at Arcadis as they work on live projects to evaluate the need for new computational, parametric and automated design methodologies, Document and present how these methodologies enhance the design process and deliver adaptive solutions as well as Liaise with project teams about how to integrate the new solution into existing projects and design processes.
This is an exciting opportunity to work for a global design consultancy and on high profile projects, whilst providing you with real-life computational design problems to overcome.
Preferred Degrees: BSc/BEng/MSc/MEng in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computational Design or similar
Qualifications & Experience
- Studying towards a related degree
- Have the permanent right to live and work in the UK
- You will enjoy working in a team environment and have the confidence to work under pressure
- You will be innovative & creative
- Resilient and able to deal with ambiguity
- Be a strategic and analytical thinker
- Excellent communication skills, and technical knowledge appropriate for the area you are applying to
- Relevant work experience through internships would be advantageous
- Willing to travel and stay away from home when required (where possible we embrace virtual working)
What we offer you
- The opportunity to join our Graduate GROW scheme after successful completion of your degree (subject to performance and availability)
- Our internships are paid
Selection process
- Step 1: Apply Online
- Step 2: Psychometric behavioural assessment
- Step 3: Interview
Why Arcadis?
Our work with clients has a direct impact on people’s lives and on the planet. We make moving, living and belonging in cities safer, more resilient and more sustainable. By partnering with our clients as responsible custodians of our earth's resources, we can create a sustainable planet.
We continue to think of new ways to make positive impacts and create better experiences for people; data driven and digital solutions have become part of the Arcadis DNA. Working together with clients and using techniques like design thinking, we can get to the heart of our clients’ most pressing challenges and work together to solve them.
As a global business, we have committed to support five of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to ensure that our projects contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all. But it’s not just the work that we do on client projects that benefits communities and our planet. As a global business, we are committed to making a positive impact to society by supporting local communities where we operate.
To help protect our planet, we monitor and measure non-financial information to inform business decisions and reduce our own environmental impact as part of our commitment to be net zero carbon as a global company by 2030.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
