Graduate Engineer (Civil/Structural) Derby - Summer Intake 2026 1 1

Permanent

Office/Home Hybrid Working

Do you want to be part of Green Transition? Are you graduating in Civil or Structural Engineering next summer? If yes, then join our Tunnels & Underground Structures team as a Graduate Engineer and help design climate-smart, future-ready underground infrastructure. Work on innovative tunnelling and subterranean projects that reduce carbon, improve transport resilience, and protect communities.

Bring your curiosity and technical foundation — build the low‑carbon solutions that will shape tomorrow.

Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow.

To grow our Civil and Structural team, we are looking for a Graduate Engineer to join us. Working on infrastructure projects you will co-create on some of the most prestigious programmes in the UK. You will also be supported by our engineers on your on-going professional development (Chartership) with a tailored plan to fulfil your career aspirations.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Producing engineering designs, assessments, and evaluations in accordance with project requirements.
• Performing analysis using computer modelling; creating, reading, and interpreting technical material.
• Translating engineering concepts and solutions into presentations, reports, sketches, drawings, and infographics that communicate their essence and demonstrate their value to our clients and key stakeholders.
• Contributing to the dissemination of engineering good practice and implementation of our in-house tools such as the carbon calculation tool.
• Learning to identify potential health & safety, design, and commercial risks on our projects and contribute towards mitigating them.
• Delivering your own work to a high technical standard, ensuring accuracy through a diligent and thorough approach to self-checking.
• Attending site visits or client meetings.

Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.

The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.

On top of that, you will have:

• A bachelor's or master's degree either in Civil or Structural Engineering (BEng, BSc, MEng, MSc).
• Aspirations to become a Chartered Engineer.
• Some experience of working in an engineering environment (such as a year in industry or summer placements).
• A demonstrable understanding and interest in engineering and a personal commitment to technical excellence.
• Ability and willingness to work in a diverse and multi-disciplinary team.
• Good communication skills and teamwork.

A place to work and so much more

At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and livable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead, by example, by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun, because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home. With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK and Ireland, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.

What we also offer:

To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.

Some of our benefits include:

• 28days' holidayplus all UKbank and public holidays
• Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
• Private health care, for you anda contribution from you foryour immediate dependents
• Flexible and hybrid working conditions
• Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
• Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange
• Life assurance
• Maternity Leave: 1-20weeks full pay, 21-26 weeks half pay, 27-39Statutory (SMP) 40-52 weeks unpaid (eligibility criteria will apply)
• Paternity Leave: 12 weeks full pay (eligibility criteria will apply)

Optional benefits include:

• Electric vehicle lease
• Annual Rail card (available for under 30s)

If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Shruti Gupta at

Get to know us even better at our website, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.

Equal opportunity employer.

COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age, or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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