Graduate Civil and Structural Engineering Career Path: Transport

Supports the design and delivery of tunnelling and infrastructure projects across transport, energy and water sectors, while developing technical, project management and design management skills.

As a graduate joining the tunnels account, you can expect to be part of a friendly and supportive department that values your development and growth. You'll gain exposure to a wide variety of tunnelling projects across sectors such as transport, energy, and water, while also having opportunities to contribute to non-tunnelling projects across the wider company.

While you’ll gain strong technical experience as part of your core role, you will also have the opportunity to broaden your skill set through involvement in project and design management, giving you exposure to the wider lifecycle of high-profile infrastructure projects. You'll be supported on your journey towards chartership, with training actively encouraged and access to CPD activities and industry conferences.

Notably, you'll have the opportunity to attend the prestigious week-long Tunnelling Course at the University of Warwick and the two-day Health and Safety course, both hosted by the British Tunnelling Society. Throughout your time, you'll be working alongside a highly knowledgeable and experienced team, gaining invaluable insight and mentorship as you build your career. 

Candidate Specification

At Mott MacDonald, we’re looking for curious, motivated graduates who want to make a real difference.  Join our purpose-driven teams where your ideas matter, your growth is supported, and your work enhances the world we live in.  

To be eligible for this opportunity, you will have less than 12 months’ relevant experience (excluding placements) and have a bachelors / masters degree (obtained no earlier than 2025) or expected to achieve one of the following degree disciplines:  

• Civil engineering  

• Structural engineering  

• Coastal engineering  

• Engineering science with a specialisation in civil   

• Façade engineering   

• Bridge engineering    

For some of our opportunities, a master’s degree is essential – this is reflected in the list of opportunities in the application form.

Some of these opportunities will require you to be eligible to achieve security clearance.  Security clearance is dictated by the types of projects we work on and normally requires you to be a UK British national or lived in the UK for five years or more. 

In your application, you should aim to demonstrate your genuine interest in both the opportunity and in joining Mott MacDonald. You can do this by highlighting any relevant experience or interests - such as modules you've studied, previous work experience, or any research you've undertaken about our company, values, and projects. 

We personally review every completed application form we receive as this part of our selection process is entirely human led – we do not use AI tools at this stage and kindly ask you not to either. We want you to answer each application question with authenticity so we can get to know the real you. Joining us as a graduate is your opportunity to shape your own story. 

We are looking for graduates with the following strengths: 

• Proactively takes initiative to complete tasks efficiently and independently. 

• Communicates effectively and clearly with clients and colleagues. 

• Delivers high quality written work with strong attention to detail and clarity. 

• Demonstrates a structured and analytical approach to problem solving.