Graduate Engineer - Tunnels & Underground Space in Leeds

To be considered for this role, please make sure you read the job description carefully. Ensure that you submit all of the relevant documents as PDFs, including the application question at the bottom of the advert.

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.

Please note – Ramboll cannot sponsor any post-study or Skilled Worker visas for our early career roles, as the Home Office’s eligibility criteria would not be met. You must have the right to live and work in the UK indefinitely, without the need for sponsorship at any time.

As a global organisation, we at Ramboll pride ourselves in our ability to work across a wide range of projects across the world. Our Tunnels and Underground Spaces team sits within our Major Projects division and has a broad portfolio of projects including the world’s longest immersed tube tunnel, the Fehrman Belt Link, as well as smaller frameworks for pipejacking and HDD (horizontal directional drilling) projects in the energy sector. Working on small through to large projects, and from tender and feasibility stages through the handover, as well as on existing asset assessments, working within our Tunnels and Underground Spaces team gives you the opportunity to understand and develop your capabilities and skills in any direction.

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 as rail, highways, energy, geotechnics 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.

You will be working within our Tunnels & Underground Space department, delivering safe, efficient designs for tunnels, shafts and subsurface structures that connect and support modern cities. 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
• Proactively pursue continuous professional development including working towards chartership with a recognised institution

We believe your starting point for this role is:

• A Bachelors or Masters 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 proactive and positive attitude to learning new skills; you must be driven and a self-starter
• 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.

How to apply: Apply online. Attach your CV and upload your answer to the below questions as a document.

• Question 1: Ramboll’s initiative, ‘The Partner for Sustainable Change’, focuses on four key unifying themes; Decarbonise for net-zero, Resilient societies and liveability, resource management and circular economy, Biodiversity and ecosystem. Please choose one unifying theme and explain what this means to you personally? (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? This could be a university project or something you have worked on in your own time or in employment. (max. 200 words)

PLEASE NOTE: YOUR APPLICATION WILL BE REJECTED IF THE APPLICATION QUESTION IS NOT COMPLETED.

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

• Step 1: Apply Online and complete required application questions, including competency question.
• Step 2: Shortlisting
• Step 3: Assessment Centre – this is planned to take place during June/July 2026

We personally review every application, as our selection process is fully human-led. It’s absolutely fine to use tools to support you—for example, to check spelling and grammar or to gather background research—but we ask that your answers reflect your own original thoughts. That way, we get to know the real you, and your responses will be a true foundation for your interview.

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 [email protected] with such requests. Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered. All application and screening questions must be answered fully.

We review applications on a rolling basis. Based on the volume of applications received we reserve the right to close applications early, please apply early to avoid disappointment.

We look forward to receiving your application. Deadline for applications: Wednesday 10th June 2026.