About the Role
As a Civil Engineering apprentice in our Highways team, you'll join the Jacobs community of over 100 apprentices. You will work on some of the world's most exciting Civil Engineering projects, providing opportunities to solve complex challenges and do meaningful work that benefits our communities and the world.
Responsibilities
* Report writing with the support of senior team members
* Site visits and follow‑up reporting
* Technical drawing
* Attending meetings with clients
* Supporting your team with information gathering for reports
* Undertaking research to support report writing
* Working with team members to improve your technical knowledge
* Apply civil engineering techniques, procedures and methods, review and evaluate results (including measuring, testing, designing, installing, commissioning, constructing, maintaining or operating civil engineering components and systems)
* Employ mathematical, statistical and data‑interpretation tools, using analytical and computational methods, and apply an integrated or systems‑based approach
* Identify, interpret and compare information to select materials, components or parts used in civil engineering
* Research, collect, select and evaluate technical literature and other sources of data and information to address, analyse and evaluate civil engineering problems
* Produce civil engineering technical solutions in accordance with relevant industry standards, policies, codes of practice, regulations and legislation
* Select and apply computational and analytical techniques to model civil engineering problems, recognising the limitations of the techniques employed
* Contribute to the design, development and implementation of civil engineering solutions, and evaluate their effectiveness in the context of the whole project life cycle
* Manage and comply with statutory health, safety and welfare policies, procedures and regulation, and contribute to improvements in health, safety and welfare within your own area of responsibility
* Complete risk assessments to identify, evaluate, manage and mitigate risks
* Apply principles of sustainable development and evaluate their effectiveness on the whole project lifecycle of civil engineering solutions
* Manage engineering activities that contribute to sustainable development and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs)
* Apply project management techniques, identifying, measuring, recording and reporting progress against civil engineering project performance criteria
* Manage quality processes and contribute to quality improvements
* Plan and manage resources, equipment and technology to meet project requirements, specifications, costs, budgets and timescales, with an appreciation of statutory and commercial arrangements
* Monitor and manage individual performance and the input of others, recognising the need to adapt to and communicate changing demands
* Comply with appropriate codes of practice and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) requirements
* Communicate in verbal and written contexts using appropriate methods for the audience and engineering terminology and conventions
* Apply teamwork and collaboration principles
* Apply ethical principles, identifying and analysing ethical concerns and making reasoned ethical choices
* Plan, undertake and review your own professional competence, regularly updating, recording and reviewing your continuing professional development (CPD)
Training
* Level 6 Civil Engineering Degree Apprenticeship
* The University of Salford
* Day release training schedule
Qualifications and Skills
* A Level in Mathematics (grade B) and any other relevant qualifications and industry experience
* Communication skills
* Organisation skills
* Problem‑solving skills
* Team working
* Initiative
* Curiosity
* Listening skills
* Interest in highways and at least 120 UCAS tariff points (or equivalent)
* Permanent Right to Work in the UK
Hours & Start Date
Monday to Friday, core working hours 8:00 am – 6:00 pm. 40 hours a week. Start date: Tuesday 1 September 2026. Duration: 5 years.
Salary & Benefits
£21,000 a year, plus benefits including company‑funded private medical insurance, pension plan, life assurance, income protection, reimbursement toward professional development and memberships.
About Jacobs
At Jacobs, we’re challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world’s most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission‑critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting‑edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. Our business focuses on providing solutions to future challenges such as climate change, renewable energy, low‑carbon economies, transportation and material resource and waste management. While we shape some of the very largest and most challenging landmark projects in the UK, we also deliver local projects that protect communities.
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