Are you ready to be part of a well-respected team with a solid reputation in the design, engineering, and project management industry? Join our Graduate Development Programme, where you'll be trusted with complex work, receiving all levels of support from line managers to senior leaders.
While you grow in areas that excite you, we also encourage you to maintain a positive work-life balance. So, during our recruitment process, tell us what matters to you. Speak to us about how we support wellbeing in and out of the office – including different ways to be flexible around work. Let's also talk about some of our recent pledges for women's equality and how we're Disability Confident and an inclusive employer.
With Atkins, you'll be in great company.
Your role
Are you ready to shape the future of the railways at one of the top three largest Engineering Consultancies in the world?
Our Rail Consulting business enables clients in the UK and across the globe to tackle their largest and most complex problems. Our teams are playing a pivotal role in the UK rail industry’s generation defining structural change, helping our clients to meet evolving passenger needs whilst driving devolution, decarbonisation, safety improvement and digital innovation across the industry.
Your work has the potential to shape the future of the railways, helping to create a world that’s cleaner, safer, faster and smarter. By joining our Graduate Development Programme, you will be supported and trusted to deliver complex, diverse, and exciting projects from day one. You’ll also get to work with some of the industry’s leading technical experts, working in a genuinely innovative and collaborative environment.
We’ll empower you to drive your own career in areas that excite you, whether that be as a world-leading technical specialist or with a focus towards strategic business management for and on behalf of our public and private sector clients. We also support you to work towards achieving professional accreditation through structured training and mentoring. We’ll expect you to challenge and improve how we do things, because we want to grow and change as much as you do. We’re passionate about what we do, but you’ll still have a positive and flexible, work-life balance whilst working in Rail Consulting.
With a diverse range of projects, clients, training and teams, your career in Rail Consulting will be as rewarding and varied as it is impactful!
Where you could work
Within our Rail Consulting practice, we transform people's journeys and the movement of goods, whilst increasing the efficiency, sustainability and safety of our transport systems and cities worldwide. So, it calls for diverse expertise.
Across all of our teams, you’ll be:
- Bidding, winning, and delivering work for a variety of UK and international clients.
- Working on a high range client outputs including design, technical investigation, consultancy advice, calculations, presentations and project and risk management.
- Given real responsibility from day one, supported by the industry’s best team of rail industry specialists.
Find out more about our Rail Consulting teams and locations
About you
We’re not all the same, and that’s our greatest strength. Different views and opinions enhance our ability to provide value-added performance and better services for our clients. That’s why we believe different, makes a difference. Reaching your full potential means being able to bring your whole self to work and being respected for the different opinions, strengths and experience you bring.
Our graduate programme has been designed to give you an insight into the huge variety and the chance to explore where your own skills and interests lie. Through a combination of on-the-job learning and practical skills development within your chosen role, you’ll work on real projects from day one that offer scale and variety collaborating with others and creating meaningful impact on the world around us. You’ll work towards your professional accreditation; whichever path you take, your future starts here.
Find out more about why we believe ‘Different, makes a difference’.
What you’ll need?
- A passion for working in a consultancy environment
- Embracing equality, diversity and inclusion in everything you do
- A desire to work collaboratively with a curious approach, challenging yourself to find new solutions
- Enthusiasm and drive to develop your skillset and seek out development opportunities within a supportive team
- Motivation to achieve professional accreditation (where applicable)
- Comfortable to embrace agile ways of working and learning new technologies
Meeting your needs
We aim to promote a workplace which allows our people to perform at their best. So, as well as ensuring you’re rewarded for your efforts, we also have a variety of initiatives in place to create a healthy workplace and support your well-being:
- A settling in payment of £2,500 when you join and a further payment of £2,500 when you achieve chartered status or reach an equivalent stage in your professional development
- 33 days annual leave, including bank holidays. You also have the option to buy an additional 15 days or sell up to 5 days
- Flexible working arrangements
- An enhanced maternity scheme and family friendly policies
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing you with immediate and confidential help for any work, health or life matters
- Two paid annual volunteer days to be used with a charity or initiative of your choice
- Join any of our employee networks for social interaction, peer support and personal development, as well as contributing to the development of policies and working practices
- Opportunities to further develop yourself by applying to our Women’s Professional Development Programme and ethnic minority Empowering Programme.
To view all available benefits, visit our Total Rewards portal.
How do I apply?
Please click "Apply Now" below to register your details and start your application journey. To find out more and for advice on how to play to your strengths, visit us on Connectr.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are able to support you to perform at your best at each stage of our recruitment process and can make adjustments to ensure this. So, whether you consider yourself to have a disability or not, or would simply like to know how we can support you better, please contact us confidentially on 0121 483 5089 or graduates@atkinsglobal.com.
Our deadline for applications is Thursday 1st December 2022. Remember, our programmes are incredibly popular, and some roles may close early. So, avoid disappointment by getting your application in as soon as possible.