Cost Management Intern (Manchester or Glasgow)

Are you ready to launch your career? Our Summer Internship Programme offers you the chance to gain real-world experience in your chosen discipline. For approximately eight weeks in the summer, you'll work in one of our hub office locations across the UK or Ireland. Here, you'll collaborate with world-class professionals in a dynamic environment, applying the skills you've honed in the classroom to real business challenges. In this fast-paced, professional setting, you'll gain invaluable experience that will set you apart in your future career.

Throughout the programme, you'll receive personalised guidance from mentors, people leaders and Programme Champions. They’re all here to help you make the most of your experience. You'll also have plenty of opportunities to connect with colleagues and fellow interns from different disciplines, broadening your professional network and gaining insights from across the business. Our goal is to ensure that your time with Jacobs leaves you with a positive, impactful learning experience.

The Opportunity

We're excited to be offering a Cost Management Summer Internship in our Manchester or Glasgow office. Jacobs Programmes & Advisory team in Europe includes some 1,000 staff providing solutions to clients investing in, planning, constructing, operating, and maintaining assets in infrastructure sectors. The Commercial Funding and Finance capability within our Programmes & Advisory business unit of Jacobs UK operates out of several UK & Ireland centres including Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, London, Bristol and Dublin. Our commercial teams serve all industry sectors and provide our influential clients with cost and commercial advice across their entire capital project lifecycle.

Our service delivery includes:

• Funding and transactions advice
• Funding strategy
• Pre and post contract quantity surveying delivery
• Estimating
• Cost planning
• Cost management
• Contract administration

Requirements:

• On track to complete a degree in Cost Management (Quantity Surveying) degree
• A flexible and innovative self-starter who’s passionate about developing new skills
• Enthusiasm and curiosity to apply your skills to solve real-world problems
• Empathy and listening skills to help you truly understand our clients' requirements
• A well-rounded individual - have you worked in a bar? Been captain of a sports team or volunteered for a charity? Tell us - we’re looking for people with interesting stories and experiences!
• You must be available to join the 8-week programme starting 29th June 2026 - 21st August 2026
• You must have the full right to work in the UK
• You need to be a penultimate year student, finishing your degree in 2027

Selection Process:

• Step 1: Apply Online
• Step 2: Solo Video Assessment
• Step 3: Interview

Apply before 21st November 2025, for your application to be considered in the first assessment window. You can still apply after this date if the role remains open to applications. However, you do so with the knowledge that we may not proceed with your application if the role is filled in the first assessment window.

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.

We aim to embed inclusion and belonging in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected and creative. We accept people for who they are, and we champion the richness of different perspectives, lived experiences and backgrounds in the workplace, as a source of learning and innovation.

We are committed to building vibrant communities within Jacobs, including through our Jacobs Employee Networks, Communities of Practice and our Find Your Community initiatives, allowing every employee to find connection, purpose, and belonging.

As a disability confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.

Your application experience is important to us, and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process, please contact the team via Careers Support.