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Arup is an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, architects, consultants and technical specialists, working across every aspect of today's built environment. Together we help our clients solve their most complex challenges – turning exciting ideas into tangible reality as we strive to find a better way and shape a better world.
Overview of the role
We are looking for Graduates to join our teams in our London, Midlands, Northwest & Yorkshire offices. From your first day, you'll join a community of experts, where you will be supported and mentored in your chosen career path and encouraged to develop your skills, experience and confidence as a management consultant during the first few years of your career with us.
One of the biggest advantages of our team is the breadth of work that we do; you will get experience from day one of working in a multi-disciplinary team and will experience the full range of Operations Consulting. Our work broadly falls into the following service areas and we're looking for people who are passionate about:
- Assets & Operations - Covering operational excellence in the built environment, such as operations strategy, business planning, asset management, construction and operations logistics, operational readiness and the application of human factors to design projects.
- People & Organisation – Covering all aspects of transformational business change such as operating models and organisational development, leadership and capability building, team effectiveness, collaboration, behaviour change, resilience, and wellbeing.
You will help us to deliver effective, professional services for a range of varied and high-profile clients. As you progress in your role at Arup, we envisage you will develop your skills and progress in the levels of responsibility and challenging projects you are involved with.
All roles will involve working across different aspects of Operations Consulting and graduates are not expected to specialise in a given area from day one – however, if you have a passion for a specific area please outline this in your application.
What we are looking for
The most important thing we're looking for is somebody who has the potential to become a great consultant – this means being adaptable, collaborating with those around you to use your analytical and problem-solving skills and becoming a trusted advisor to our clients. You might be delivering project work, helping us to develop new services or win new work, so you will need to be a great communicator with strong organisational skills who is enthusiastic, highly driven and motivated to shape a better world.
Because we do such all-encompassing work, our team is made up of people from almost every degree background that Arup recruits – from Psychology to Geography, Engineering to Ergonomics, and Business to Mathematics.
Broadly, we're looking for people with the following qualifications, attributes and skills:
- Degree level qualification
- Adaptability, versatility and the motivation to apply your skills to a range of projects and service areas
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in writing and verbally
- Great reasoning and analytical skills
- Excellent digital skills and possesses a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Innovative and creative approach to problem solving
- The aptitude to work on your own initiative and be proactive
- Understanding of the importance of client care and your role in contributing towards it
You must be available to start this opportunity in September 2022.
What we offer you
Beyond a great salary and stimulating, technically challenging work, Arup offers a range of additional benefits to its people.
As a membership organisation, everyone shares in our success through a global profit share scheme. Our people also have access to a range of broader wellbeing benefits.
You'll have access to lots of learning opportunities including a structured induction and ongoing training through Arup university.
Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to utilise your technical expertise to improve the lives of the most vulnerable in the communities in which we live and work through Arup's community engagement programme.
