Graduate Tunnel Engineer

Civil/geotechnical engineering graduate role focused on designing and analysing underground infrastructure such as tunnels, caverns, and ground support systems using structural and geotechnical methods (including 3D modelling and finite element analysis), supporting major infrastructure projects from design through reporting and delivery.

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 Programme (GDP) and have a meaningful, positive impact on our environments, communities and societies. Bring your passion, your ingenuity and your vision. Let’s see the impact we can create, together.

What will you get?

Our Graduate Development Programme is a structured two-year scheme designed to support your development at the start of your Jacobs career journey. Through a combination of blended learning, mentoring, progress reviews and networking, you will establish yourself as knowledgeable and competent across four key focus areas: human skills, consulting skills, championing our strategy, and your passions.

The Graduate Development Programme allows you to customise your learning journey to reflect your specific interests, career goals, and technical skillset – creating a graduate experience that is unique to you.

The GDP is an experience programme, meaning that a large portion of what you’ll learn will be on-the-job. You’ll work with your manager and mentor to collect the learning experiences that will be most meaningful for you.

The programme is more than just a steppingstone. It’s a launchpad for your career, offering you the tools, experiences and support you need. Join us and unlock your potential as you work on meaningful projects and collaborate with industry leaders to deliver outcomes and solutions for complex challenges.

About the opportunity

Join us and you’ll have the chance to work on world class projects as part of our Tunnelling and Ground Engineering business.

Jacobs is one of the world’s largest and most diverse providers of technical and management services, offering a full spectrum of consultancy support to commercial, government and industrial clients. As part of that support, Jacobs has developed one of the leading and longest-standing tunnel and ground engineering consultancy capabilities in the UK and Ireland, with around 400 staff delivering practical, innovative and sustainable solutions to ground-related problems.

Reporting to one of the team leads within the Tunnels discipline, this individual will be a key resource in projects for a range of internal and external clients. Our tunnels team focusses on a range of small to large scale projects from pipejack, to complex underground caverns, utilising techniques from empirical methods to 3D FE analyses. Work undertaken can be structural and/or geotechnical in nature.

The candidate will work within project teams. The role is likely to include:

• Using technological advances to improve quality, results and efficiency

• Preparing designs and drawings

• Writing technical reports

• Participating in internal technical and professional activities

• Proactively approaching career development

The successful person will join a respected and ambitious company with excellent career prospects and international opportunities. You will work as part of a diverse and highly skilled team of specialists, providing support and advice to the wider Jacobs business and clients. There will be opportunities for a broad range of responsibilities and roles within the Tunnelling and Ground Engineering team aimed at developing your career.

The start date for this position is September 2026.

Here's what you'll need

• Be working towards a Degree or Masters level qualification in Tunnelling, Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering or Structural Engineering

• A flexible self-starter who is keen to drive your career forward

• Adaptable to change, with a thirst for learning new things

• You must have the permanent right to work in the UK

What else we provide

• A flexible workstyle, embracing a hybrid working pattern and supporting those who need to balance work/life commitments a bit differently than others.

• Free single medical cover and digital GP service.

• Reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.

• A focus on safety, health, and wellbeing, prioritising our people through a culture of caring and positive mental health champion network.

• Opportunities to give back to our communities through our Collectively programme, incorporating matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.