Tunnelling Intern (London or Birmingham)

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 will work in one of our hub office locations across the UK or Ireland. Here, you will collaborate with world-class professionals in a dynamic environment, applying the skills you have honed in the classroom to real business challenges. In this fast-paced, professional setting, you will gain invaluable experience that will set you apart in your future career.

Throughout the programme, you will receive personalised guidance from mentors, people leaders and Programme Champions. They are all here to help you make the most of your experience. You will 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 are excited to be offering an internship position as a Tunnelling Intern in our London or Birmingham team. 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, 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, you will be involved in projects for a range of internal and external clients. Our tunnels team focuses 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.

• On track to complete a degree in Tunnel Engineering, Mining Engineering, Civil or Structural Engineering
• A flexible and innovative self-starter who is 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 are 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 have gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means and space to maximise your potential. You will 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 are 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.

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.