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Skanska is one the UK’s top construction companies. We are building, upgrading, and maintaining the country’s infrastructure for future generations. Drawing on our Scandinavian heritage, we are green, innovative and progressive. We bring together people and technology, as part of our objective to make construction a safer and more collaborative industry.
Joining us as a Graduate Planner, you will work as part of the project team, utilising your problem-solving skills to overcome logistical issues, such as heavily congested city centre working and constrained live environments.
You will put together series of programmes covering all construction activities and sequences, along with 4D animations showing methodology from initial concept, planning drawings through construction to successful hand over.
Your role is key for coordinating all strategies and ideas and you will help put these into action. Working closely with the project team and subcontractors, you will be integral to Skanska’s success story through monitoring, controlling and adapting programmes.
Who you are
- Studying towards or having completed a Bsc or Msc degree in a construction related subject
- Values driven, passionate about sustainability and building for a better society
- Enthusiastic to shape the future of construction with Skanska
- Have excellent communications and collaboration skills
- Have attention to detail
What we offer
- Clear learning and development opportunities to build your knowledge, skills, and behaviours to prepare you for your career at Skanska
- Professional networks and mentoring to ensure success
- The opportunity to work towards membership of your chosen professional body
- Project management and leadership development mentoring
- Opportunities to volunteer at least one day per year
- Competitive benefits package
The graduate programme provides a pathway to develop a complete skill set, developing both technical and interpersonal skills. The programme includes interesting courses and on-the-job learning.
As part of the graduate programme, teams will embark on digitalisation and social value projects. These projects provide exposure to graduates and senior colleagues in the company and build a strong professional network whilst improving the business.
At Skanska, we believe in our Purpose, we build for a better society. Through our Values of care for life, commit to customers, be better – together and act ethically and transparently you will enable us to deliver our purpose.
Equal opportunities
We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.
Flexible working
We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.
Reasonable adjustments
We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using emerging.talent@skanska.co.uk if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.
