Overview
Join to apply for the 2026 Graduate Programme – Transport & Infrastructure – Intelligent Infrastructure role at WSP
We are looking for graduates for our Intelligent Infrastructure team, who have a flexible approach and an appetite to learn in a leading Engineering and Professional Advisory services consultancy. We want you to enjoy working in a collaborative environment where you can apply your skills working for a diverse range of clients and projects.
WSP is an international leader in intelligent transport systems (ITS). As the urban population expands, people live longer, and the pressures on our transport networks increase, developments in technology present us with exciting opportunities for transformation, which is where our Intelligent Infrastructure team come in. Our Intelligent Infrastructure team improves the operational and safety performance of transportation networks, including aspects of new mobility including human-centered design, connectivity, cyber security, and zero emission vehicles (ZEVs).
Programs and Roles by Service and Location
We are recruiting for Graduates in the following services and locations:
* Operations and Safety - Policy Monitoring & Evaluation: London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Guildford
* Operations and Safety - Tunnel Systems & Operations: Guildford, Bristol or London
* Operations and Safety - Human Centered Design: Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham
* Systems & Infrastructure: London, Manchester, Bristol
* Lighting & Energy Solutions: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, London or Southampton
What you will do
Projects
* Sizewell Nuclear Power Plant
* HS2
* National Highways
* Local Authority active travel schemes and Metro link projects
* A303 Stonehenge tunnel
* A83 'Rest and Be Thankful' debris flow shelter
* Dartford Tunnel
* Medway Tunnel
Our Intelligent Infrastructure Teams
Human Centered Design: Our Human Centered Design experts ensure our infrastructure solutions prioritise user safety and efficiency. By putting users and their needs at the centre of our design work and through providing supporting research and analysis, we shape robust systems in the highways and beyond. We provide expertise throughout policy and project lifecycles, including:
* Safety and Cyber Security: safety risk assessments, safe systems approaches and understanding user error as a consequence rather than a cause of incidents.
* Operations: transport operations including station and stop designs, signalling, driving behaviours, digital design, and measures influencing behaviour.
* Research: qualitative and quantitative research including simulation studies, feasibility studies, surveys, focus groups and workshops.
As a Graduate within this team you will support public sector clients in highways and rail with digital projects (operational technology; cyber security); infrastructure design standards; and research to inform public strategy and policy at a local and national level.
Day-to-day activities (examples)
* Applying and integrating key principles of human factors, ergonomics and behaviour change to transportation or infrastructure projects and policies.
* Undertaking research design, execution and reporting, covering quantitative and qualitative research.
* Undertaking user identification and profiling including behavioural insights.
* Undertaking Human Factors assessments such as task analysis and in-depth risk analysis to inform infrastructure scheme and operational designs.
* Supporting the Capability Lead with the preparation of client proposals.
Policy Monitoring & Evaluation: Our Policy Monitoring & Evaluation team supports a diverse range of transport clients, addressing evolving priorities such as net zero carbon, climate change resilience, zero harm, digitisation, shifting road user expectations, and efficiency. ... Graduates in our team collaborate with senior experts and specialists across WSP, combining monitoring and evaluation expertise with technical knowledge in areas like energy, roads, rail, and active travel. This enables us to deliver tailored solutions for clients through varied central and local government projects, building a diverse portfolio of experience.
* Supporting delivery of a multi-discipline monitoring and evaluation project, ranging from assessing evaluability, to scoping, to designing monitoring and evaluation frameworks, to delivering evaluations of local and national transport policies.
* Undertaking interviews with stakeholders to build an understanding of an intervention's performance.
* Reviewing, analysing and interpreting data to provide expert monitoring and evaluation advice to support our Client's objectives.
* Collaborating with resources from other internal specialist WSP teams to bring in subject matter expertise.
* Supporting the Capability Lead with the preparation of client proposals.
Tunnel Systems & Operations
Within Intelligent Infrastructure, our Tunnel Systems engineering team delivers end-to-end tunnel asset capability, transforming the integration of tunnel systems design and delivery, led by safety and operations. Tunnels are complex environments where a range of systems interface to provide a safe operating environment for users, including telecommunications, firefighting systems, lighting, control systems, signalling, electronic signage, ventilation and public address alarm systems.
As a Graduate in our team you will support our diverse range of technical experts to deliver prestigious new build and refurbishment tunnel systems projects across many industry sectors including road, rail and utilities. You will be influential in the delivery of engineering, infrastructure and construction projects to an ever-increasing client base in the UK and overseas.
* Preparing design drawings and design documentation.
* Preparing for client and stakeholder meetings and workshops.
* Undertaking industry research.
* Working with subject matter experts across different disciplines to draw in their technical expertise to scheme delivery.
* Preparing for and attending sites with colleagues to undertake inspections.
* Supporting senior colleagues with client proposals.
Systems & Infrastructure
Our Systems & Infrastructure team partners with clients, such as National Highways and County Councils, to deliver essential road network technology and infrastructure. Our experts shape future traffic control strategies and oversee the testing of new technologies from the roadside to the control centre. This team offers roles that match experiences across all their capabilities from Digital Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Systems Engineering, Data Architecture to Connectivity.
* Delivering technology and infrastructure solutions to manage road networks.
* Helping to deliver the future strategy of technology used to control traffic.
* Testing new versions of technology used to control traffic.
Lighting & Energy Solutions
Our Lighting & Energy Solutions team work on a wide range of projects from both Public and Private sectors across all our Lighting and Electrical capabilities which include Local Government, Strategic Road Networks, Electrical and Electric Vehicles, Creative Lighting and Environmental. New Graduates are usually sponsored to complete the Institution of Lighting Professionals Exterior Lighting Diploma within their first four years of joining the business and will be given training opportunities to support their professional development.
* Undertaking data gap analysis activities.
* Dealing with general day to day project administration tasks.
* Assisting with stakeholder engagement.
* Supporting various reporting requirements including carbon assessments and cost / benefit calculations.
* Carrying out lighting and electrical design solutions in 2D and 3D CAD environments.
Graduate Development Programme
You will join an enthusiastic and supportive team, providing you with a challenging and fulfilling career. Our two-year Graduate Development programme is designed to support personal and professional development and growth through an engaging blended learning experience, including core business and professional skills training, career development workshops and resources, mentoring for professional registration and a breadth of on-the-job experience.
To find out more, please visit: Who we are - ECP
What We Will Be Looking For You To Demonstrate
* You’ll have graduated with at least a 2:2 in a master’s or bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject for the role you are applying for.
* You’ll be looking to start work in either April or September 2026
* You’ll have a passion for engineering and consulting
* An understanding of complex and safety-critical systems
* You’ll have a desire for the built environment, infrastructure and design systems
* You’ll have an enthusiasm for creativity and a drive to solve problems
* You’ll want to inspire us, sharing new ideas you have
Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Should you have the right qualifications for our roles, apply and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities we have available for our Graduate programme.
Application and Selection
For further information regarding our Application & Selection process, including timelines for recruitment, please visit our Early Careers brochure. We review applications for our Early Career opportunities on a rolling basis, which means we begin progressing some candidates to the final stages before the application closing date. To ensure your application receives full consideration, we recommend submitting it as early as possible.
What’s in it for you
Work-life balance, Inclusivity & Belonging, Health & Wellbeing, Flex your time, Your development and more, including benefits such as hybrid working, Thrive programme, and support for professional development.
EEO Statement We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.
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