Graduate Engineer - Transport (2025 Intake)

To be considered for this role, please make sure you read the job description carefully and apply by submitting all the relevant documents.

Launch your career and find your professional home at Ramboll. Be part of a welcoming and engaging environment, where you can develop and explore your professional interests and passions, and curiosity in ways that make the most of all the opportunities ahead of you.

At Ramboll, we offer a unique work environment. Our culture is built on openness, understanding, and respect, allowing you to shape your role to match your working style, aspirations, and personal life. Our Nordic heritage drives our commitment to improving conditions for people and nature through our projects. As a foundation-owned multinational company, the profit we make is reinvested into the company. This ensures the continued development of employees or is used to fund research, charity, and humanitarian projects. Our commitment to be \’The Partner for Sustainable Change\’ ensures your work makes a meaningful impact on people, communities, and the environment.

Our Early Careers Programme – EarlyCareers@Ramboll

We have designed a training program that will boost your personal, commercial and technical development to kick-start your career with Ramboll. You will also be paired with a mentor and have access to a clear framework to work towards your professional development.

The Early Careers Challenge is one of the highlights of the graduate training. This is a fun and exciting event where you get to travel around the UK and work on a project that will provide you with an insight into the concept of design. You also get the opportunity to collaborate and network with amazing people and peers.

About the Opportunity

A Graduate role at Ramboll gives you the flexibility and opportunity to develop into an all-rounder. You will gain valuable experience working on a broad range of projects such across highways, energy, marine and more. Previous education will be an important foundation, but your ability to learn new engineering concepts and pick up new technology quickly and effectively will define your success. If you enjoy challenging the status quo and finding efficient and novel ways to tackle unfamiliar engineering problems, then you will thrive here, and if you believe that a design team can become more than the sum of its parts through effective communication, then you will fit in well.

Your key tasks and responsibilities will be to:

• Contribute, throughout the project lifecycle, to the overall design and delivery of transport related projects
• Perform analysis using computer modelling; creating, reading, and interpreting technical material
• Develop digital tools and approaches to solve engineering challenges for our clients
• Translate 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
• Learn to identify potential health & safety, design, and commercial risks on our projects and contribute towards mitigating them
• Consider sustainability at the heart of everything you do
• Monitor the implementation of design throughout the entire project lifecycle, from initial concepts to construction and operation
• Contribute to the development of company procedures by taking an active role in task groups
• Proactively pursue continuous professional development including working towards chartership with a recognised institution

Your skills and experience

We believe your starting point for this role is:

• A BEng, MEng or MSc level degree in a relevant engineering discipline (General Engineering, Civil/Structural Engineering, Engineering Geology)
• Ability to summarise and present information via different channels (e.,g., report writing, Power Point, hand sketching)
• A positive attitude to learning new skills
• An understanding of Digital Automation

We don’t expect you to know everything, but that you show curiosity, take responsibility, and want to deliver high-quality work. Ramboll strives to deliver excellent cross-functional solutions in a professional and well-coordinated manner to our clients. Therefore, we believe you should have good communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits you will enjoy:

• Hybrid & Flexible Working
• 27 days holiday per year + 8 days bank holiday
• Professional subscription + support on becoming chartered
• Private Medical Insurance
• A great list of flexible benefits you can choose from including discounted taste card subscription, cycle to work scheme, gym flex and many more!

Selection Process:

We aim to respond to your application shortly after the deadline by the latest. There are several steps to our selection process. You will advance onto the next step if you are successfully shortlisted.

• Step 1: Apply Online
• Step 2: Shortlisting
• Step 3: Assessment Centre – this is planned to take place in our Birmingham office on 12th February 2025

Work at the heart of sustainable change with Ramboll in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company. As a foundation-owned people company, founded in Denmark, we believe that the purpose of sustainable change is to create a thriving world for both nature and people. So, that’s where we start – and how we work. Our history is rooted in a clear vision of how a responsible company should act and being open and curious is a cornerstone of our culture. Ramboll in the United Kingdom and Ireland has a proven track record of sustainable and responsible business and is a top ten engineering and environmental and sustainability consultancy in the UK, with more than 1,500 employees across 16 offices. Ramboll experts deliver innovative solutions across Buildings, Transport, Environment & Health, and Energy. In 2024, Ramboll was included in the Sunday Times’ list of Best Places to Work.

How to apply

Apply online. Attach your CV and Cover Letter. In a separate document, please address the following questions:

Question 1.Ramboll’s initiative, ‘The Partner for Sustainable Change’, focuses on four key themes; Decarbonise for net-zero, Resilient societies and liveability, Resource management and circular economy, Biodiversity and ecosystem.

Please choose one unifying theme and explain how we can apply this to the built environment for a positive, environmental change. (max. 150 words)

Question 2.Describe a time when you led or worked as a part of a team to solve a complex or multidisciplinary design problem. What did you learn? What do you believe were the key factors for success? (max. 150 words)

Question 3.Why does sustainability matter to you? (max. 150 words)

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of what we do. At Ramboll, we believe that diversity is a strength and that different experiences and perspectives are essential to creating truly sustainable societies. We are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive work environment where everyone is able to flourish and reach their potential. We also know how important it is to achieve the right balance of where, when, and how much you work. As a company, Ramboll recognises the importance of having a good work/life balance, both in terms of individual well-being and its positive impact with respect to the engagement and retention of our employees. We aim to support all employees to achieve a work/life balance which enables them to work in a supported manner while having the time to achieve personal aspects of their life outside of work. We invite applications from candidates of all backgrounds and characteristics.

As a Disability Confident Committed employer, Ramboll ensures opportunities are accessible to candidates with disabilities. Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to the application process to make it more comfortable for you. You can contact us at job.advert.accessibility@ramboll.com with such requests.

Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered.

Based on the volume of applications received we reserve the right to close applications early.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Deadline for applications:13th December 2024

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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