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A superb opportunity to join our progressive, award-winning Civil and Structural team.
The future of education, strategic land, urban regeneration and the tech industry – just a flavour of the kind of projects that await a career in Hydrock.
Our team prides themselves on bettering communities and businesses across England, with a real passion for regenerating the built environment, and for helping villages, towns and cities thrive.
About us
What you need to know about Hydrock in 150 words!
Hydrock is a British-owned integrated engineering design, energy and sustainability consultancy, with social-value running through everything we do. We design the buildings and infrastructure that communities rely on, keeping sustainability and innovation front of mind. Recent examples include The Wave (inland surfing lakes), English National Ballet, UK Hydrographic Office, UWE Engineering Building, Llys Cadwyn (community regeneration flagship).
Our reputation as a people-focused business is established with our regular placement in the 100 Best Large Companies To Work For listings. Our growth across the UK is also evidenced from winning national awards for our best projects – 2020 Business Green Awards, Green Building Project of the Year for The Wave and 2021 British Construction Industry Award for UWE Engineering.
At Hydrock, you’ll enjoy working in a great team of 700+ people with a genuine opportunity to develop and to be recognised, inspired and rewarded – here’s a taster of the ‘good bits’ of 2021.
About the role
Join us in September for a year placement in between your university studies. You will primarily work within civil engineering, designing drainage systems, highways and external works. This means within a single working day you will find yourself completing a number of varied design tasks - modelling, liaising with architects, planners, and engineers to contribute to integrated design.
Your main responsibilities will include:
- Preparation of simple calculations to support design development
- Arrange and attend meetings, take minutes and distribute actions
- Attending and contributing to project team meetings
- Managing your own workload to meet project and study deadlines
- Liaising with internal and external team members, developing relationships and people skills
- Gaining experience in the preparation of reports, drawings and specifications
To succeed in this role, you’ll need:
- To be a current university student
- Genuine interest in a career in civil engineering
- A keen attitude to learning and enthusiasm to achieve in the workplace and in your studies
- Strong numeracy skills
- Confident communication skills both written and verbal
- Enjoy utilising technology
What you can expect
Inspired and motivated colleagues. A good team, office and employer. A genuine opportunity to create and to be recognised and rewarded.
The remuneration package will include a competitive salary and employer pension contribution, 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy/sell up to five days), well-being bonus and a wide variety of flexible benefits. There are also little things like a paid day off for good causes and free fresh fruit in the office.
A career with Hydrock offers you the chance to achieve your potential in a strongly people-focused and values-led business that provides great opportunities for professional and personal development.
A place where we can all thrive
At Hydrock we value our diversity and place wellbeing and inclusion for all at the heart of our culture. Offering our people flexibility is an important factor in achieving these aims, so we encourage everyone talk to us about any ideas which enable you to balance your personal commitments with your responsibilities at work. Please let us know your current and/or desired flexible working arrangements in your covering letter, so we can discuss how this could work for you in this role.
Hydrock is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We consider all applications on an individual’s alignment with the required qualifications, knowledge and experience outlined in this job advert, without regard to any of the protected characteristics. So that we can provide everyone with a fair selection, assessment and employment experience, please make us aware if you have any physical or neurodiverse condition for which appropriate reasonable adjustments can be made by us.