Graduate Infrastructure Engineer Bath 2022

From helping shape entire cities to adapting infrastructure to deal with the climate emergency, a career at Buro Happold presents the chance to make a difference. With a world class reputation, our creativity and our people have delivered positive change to clients, the environment, and communities alike. If you want to be part of something bigger, this is your chance.

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We have an exciting opportunity for a talented graduate-level Infrastructure Engineer to join our Infrastructure team, based in our vibrant head office in Bath

At Buro Happold we offer an integrated multi-disciplinary service throughout the whole project life cycle, from planning through to design and implementation. We take pride in working closely with clients, collaborators and stakeholders to deliver cost effective and sustainable outcomes. Recognising that infrastructure is often the “glue” that binds developments together, we aim to take a proactive approach to problem solving and co-ordination.

Our Infrastructure team in Bath work on some of the Practice's most interesting and challenging master planning and infrastructure schemes.

We are a truly global company with our offices and live projects spanning the world. We work with leading architects, project managers, contractors, local and national authorities and developers and are currently working on some of the most exciting projects in the UK and around the world. We can offer fantastic career opportunities and the chance to be at the cutting edge of creativity in the built environment. Our project portfolio and global initiative provides excellent opportunities for international travel.

The company is at the cutting edge of digital parametric design and coding. Advancement of computational abilities is encouraged for all staff, supported by dedicated leads in all departments. Special “Jet Pack” funding is available to get innovative ideas off the ground.

Buro Happold support its employees in their desire to support communities in need of engineering support who cannot afford it. This initiative is called Share Our Skills -SOS. This has developed into a ‘Dragons’ Den’ style initiative that provides a framework for anyone or any group of people within BuroHappold to pitch to the Dragons for time to cover the cost of their involvement in such a project. The reach of this work is wide ranging and can be in developing countries or equally our own.

You will be based at our Bath office, a converted mill building on the riverbank in the city-centre, with views of the famous Abbey. We are a few minutes’ walk to the station with regular, high-speed services to London, Bristol, Cardiff and beyond. Bath is fantastically located for exploring the local area, with the great countryside of the Southwest and South Wales on our doorstep. At present, we have a hybrid working arrangement in place for all staff members.

To find out more about our Infrastructure discipline, please click here.

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What sort of projects would I work on?

The work the Bath Infrastructure team undertakes is diverse in terms of scale, location, development type and the point at which we are engaged through the life of the project. We strive to ensure that our graduates are given the opportunity to work across a varied portfolio of projects to broaden your skills during the early stages or your career.

Our expertise ranges from city scale master planning through to campus and building scale development infrastructure.  Here are some of the projects that we are currently engaged on:

Stadia and Arena Claimed to be the largest building construction project currently in the UK, our team has been busy with the start on site at Everton. We have been working on this project providing all infrastructure design from site selection stage through to our current engagement for the contractor, as their designer. We have also overseen the completion of the new Compton and Edrich stands at Lord's Cricket Ground.  Our team have also been designing the new Co-op arena in Manchester - the largest capacity indoor Arena in Europe, which has just started on site.

In the Southwest we look to be busy with local UK projects in the southwest well into next year.  We will be working with the client and architecture team to update the masterplan for Temple Island in Bristol and will be starting the design of the first phase infrastructure.  We are continuing to support the development of Bristol University’s TQEC campus and have secured the next stage for Bath Western Riverside, on our doorstep.

Healthcare  - We recently have delivered 2 large masterplan projects for Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar working alongside international architects for whole city districts. In parallel we were engaged on an exciting research project for the same client to define a prototype for the Hospital of the Future, a very topical subject in the current climate. We are also currently working with the Guys and St Thomas Trust in London, Hampshire Hospital Trust and a community hospital in London.

Internationally our focus has seen us deliver large scale and complex projects successfully and through fantastic team efforts across the year. In Saudi Arabia we are engaged on the design of the Royal Arts Complex and King Salman Park, 2 significant cultural and public realm developments. We are also the lead engineers, master planning Qiddiya, a new city for 600,000 people spanning incredible terrain including a 300m high cliff in a challenging desert context. Another major project for our team currently is Sabah Al Ahmed, Sea City in Kuwait. We have worked on this for 20 years and this is now the second major phase that we are designing.

What would I do?

“I’m in the infrastructure department and have mainly been working on masterplans at quite a high level as well as detailed design, which I love. My roles have been mainly to do with designing network routes for various utilities as well as costing different bits of infrastructure and advising clients on what options are feasible or likely to be within budget. On my current project I’ve been more involved in the management and coordination of a small team as well as pulling together the costing and phasing plan of a massive new city in the Far East whilst still getting to grips with the nitty gritty of highways design.” – Graduate Infrastructure Engineer

About you

• A Civil Engineering degree.
• A passion and enthusiasm for engineering design, sustainability and making a meaningful contribution to society.
• Shows real interest in the projects being worked on, likes to understand where their contribution fits.
• Actively engages with colleagues on work projects and sees the value of learning from and sharing knowledge with them. You would have built upon academic learning and under guidance applies it into practical project situations.
• Motivated and committed to your professional development.

What’s in it for you?

We have recently adopted a new framework focussed on early careers development. This allows our Graduates to learn the fundamentals of design and technology whilst building a base in consulting and professional skills. This is a blended learning programme where participants gain experience against our internal professional and technical frameworks in relation to their specialism.

We see membership of a professional body and professional registration as crucial to the development of our engineers and offer substantial support to those aspiring to achieve this. Therefore, we will support employees to achieve the highest level of membership and registration their academic background allows.

In addition, we provide our graduates a unique platform named the Young Employees Forum (YEF). This is a community organised by our young employees in Buro Happold to welcome you into the practice and provide a network to support and share in your future growth.