At Jacobs, we’re challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world’s most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.
Your impact
Join the Jacobs Graduate Development Program (GDP) and help shape better environments, communities and societies. Bring your passion, creativity and ambition — and together, we’ll create lasting change.
What you’ll get
Our two‑year Graduate Development Program is designed to accelerate your growth as you begin your Jacobs career. Through blended learning, mentoring, progress reviews and networking, you’ll build capability across four key areas: human skills, consulting skills, championing our strategy, and developing your personal passions.
You’ll tailor your learning journey to your interests, career goals and technical strengths — creating a graduate experience that’s uniquely yours. Much of your development will come through real project work, supported by your manager and mentor to ensure you gain the experiences that matter most.
The Graduate Development Program isn’t just a steppingstone — it’s a launchpad. You’ll gain the tools, exposure and support to unlock your potential, working on meaningful projects and collaborating with industry leaders to deliver solutions to complex challenges.
About the opportunity
Jacobs Capital Project & Asset Advisory team in Europe includes some 300 staff providing solutions to clients investing in, planning, constructing, operating, and maintaining assets across infrastructure sectors. Within this unit, the Performance & Productivity capability helps clients improve the performance, efficiency and predictability of capital project delivery across the UK, Europe and beyond.
Our Performance & Productivity specialists help clients overcome complex delivery challenges and achieve better programme outcomes through an integrated approach to improvement. In our market-leading Capital Project & Asset Advisory team, our work relates to:
- Improving productivity, performance and delivery certainty across capital programmes and projects.
- Applying Lean & Operational Excellence, Production Management, Innovation and complementary capabilities to drive sustainable improvement.
- Using data, insights and practical interventions to resolve delivery challenges and enable continuous improvement.
- The expectation that we “Go Beyond.”
Our graduates support our projects and will be an integral part of our project delivery and business development functions, helping clients deliver better outcomes through improved performance, productivity and value creation across the programme lifecycle.
The start date for this position is September 2027.
Here’s what you’ll need
- Be working towards a relevant Degree or Master’s level qualification in Business Studies, Mathematics or Computer Science
- A flexible, proactive mindset and motivation to drive your career forward
- Adaptability and enthusiasm for learning
- Permanent right to work in the UK
Selection process
- Apply Online
- Solo Video Assessment
- Interview
Joining Jacobs not only connects you locally but globally. Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and belonging. We put people at the heart of our business, and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.
With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we’ve gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means and space to maximize your potential. You’ll uncover flexible working arrangements, benefits, and opportunities, from well-being benefits to our global giving and volunteering program, to exploring new and inventive ways to help our clients make the world a better place. No matter what drives you, you’ll discover how you can cultivate, nurture, and achieve your goals – all at a single global company.
We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.
