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Join us as a graduate project manager and you’ll help make sure we’re able to financially support water and wastewater infrastructure around the UK. We’re a friendly and professional team, always open to new perspectives and looking for ways to collaborate.

Get your career off to a great start as you combine your academic knowledge with practical experience as a graduate project manager. We’ll help you along the way with mentorship, networking opportunities, training, and support to becoming chartered with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

Apply now and help to shape the next generation of places where people can prosper.

What you’ll be doing

  • Representing our clients throughout the full life cycle of projects.
  • Undertake the development of engineering options for a proposal so that full consideration is given to safety, reliability, operational capacity modelling, maintainability, ease of construction, and environmental/whole life issues.
  • Participate in the selection of a single option for development.
  • Prepare specifications and contract documents required for commencement of the detailed design & construction and participate in answering clarifications/queries as required.
  • Undertake design reviews and liaise with other disciplines as and where required.
  • Manage the engineering interfaces of allocated proposals with concurrent work in other disciplines.
  • Construction stage project management, monitoring progress against programme, assessing costs for works completed and ensuring quality.

What we’re looking for

  • A BSc or MSc in within a relevant subject
  • Ideally industry placement experience / Internship
  • Good written and oral communication skills
  • The ability to manage your own time and meet challenging deadlines
  • A good team player
  • The motivation and desire to work towards a chartership for the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors / APM

About Capita Real Estate and Infrastructure

Driven by our ambition of creating places where people can prosper, Capita Real estate and infrastructure improve UK infrastructure and buildings, the physical networks which keep the country moving and the places where our communities can safely prosper.

With us, you’ll join a team committed to finding smarter solutions, and work with a broad range of experts offering a distinctively diverse set of skills. Our leadership team are practitioners and understand what it takes to succeed, and our inclusive culture is built on over 100 years of delivering excellence.

We provide our clients across the public and private sector with a different perspective and approach; one based on what they need and what they can afford. Our UK-wide team work as trusted members of our clients’ teams, finding holistic and sustainable solutions.

We are one of the UK’s largest multifaceted consultancies, delivering property and infrastructure projects on a local, national, and international scale.

We have 20 offices across the UK offering a vast range of professional and technical expertise across an unrivalled number of services. The breadth and depth of our experience ensures that we can add value to any project, regardless of its size, complexity, or sector.

What’s in it for you?

  • salary of up to £25,000 pa – plus we’ll pay for professional body membership fees
  • 25 days’ holiday
  • company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks’ fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks…and plenty more
  • voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and socializing, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
  • flexible working options available – just ask

You’ll get the chance to follow your chosen career path anywhere in Capita.

You’ll be joining a network of 55,000 experienced, innovative and dedicated individuals across multiple disciplines and sectors. There are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career, and we’ll provide the support you need to do just that. Our purpose is to create a better outcome for you.

Equal Opportunities

We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic.

We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

During the application process, you’ll be asked to share your personal characteristics and data with us. This helps us understand our audience so we can make sure we are doing everything we can to attract a diverse range of people and ensure our recruitment processes are fair and inclusive.