Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.
Overview
Role description: Our GROW graduate programme is a structured 3-year programme designed to help you evolve and develop skills to become an experienced professional in your chosen field. You’ll benefit from training and development, mentoring, and assistance for accreditations relevant to your programme, as well as guidance to help you develop and succeed. As a GROW graduate you will be empowered to drive your career and exposed to a variety of experiences to gain the skills you require to succeed. As an engineer joining GROW, you will specialise within your chosen discipline of engineering and obtain the appropriate experiences to become a technical expert. During the three-year programme you will develop core engineering and consulting techniques to apply while working with clients in the UK and potentially international clients.
Role accountabilities
Our civil engineering teams work across highways, rail, energy, and water, delivering safe, high-quality, and sustainable design solutions for clients and communities. As a graduate, you will be supported and mentored while contributing to projects ranging from local schemes to major international developments. You will work with diverse, multidisciplinary teams and follow a structured path towards professional qualification.
Using advanced software and digital tools, you will design new infrastructure and assess existing assets for repair or reuse. You will gain hands-on experience across sectors, applying knowledge to real-world challenges. You will learn about project delivery models, contracts, and commercial constraints, while collaborating with other disciplines and attending site visits to ensure designs are safe, buildable, and sustainable. Civil engineers are central to tackling the climate emergency, so you will help deliver resilient, low-carbon solutions, contributing to maximising environmental, social and economic impact.
Our work covers projects of all scales across sectors.
Specialisations and typical responsibilities
* As a civil engineer in highways and transportation, you will help shape transport infrastructure—designing safe, sustainable, and innovative solutions for roads, junctions, bridges, and active travel routes. You may design foundations, earthworks, retaining structures or drainage systems using tools such as Civil 3D, OpenRoads, and BIM; explore generative design; contribute to enhancing highways resilience; gain exposure to transport planning, traffic modelling, and policy alignment; collaborate with other disciplines; attend site visits; and work on UK and international projects from concept to construction.
* A water management engineer works on waste and clean water infrastructure and non-infrastructure assets to deliver sustainable solutions, ensuring resilience and quality of water supplies through innovative and natural solutions.
* As a civil engineer in rail, you will help design and deliver railway infrastructure, including stations, bridges, utilities crossings, drainage, and safe access. You will collaborate across disciplines in a safety-critical environment, using digital tools to develop resilient, future-ready solutions that impact reliability and sustainability of rail transport. You will gain experience across project delivery stages on UK and international projects including light rail and tram systems.
* An energy engineer supports clients in delivering new connections and grid upgrades to help the UK Electricity Industry meet Net Zero carbon reduction ambitions.
No matter the sector, the programme is an opportunity to grow your skills in delivering sustainable solutions. Some site work visits and inspections are involved.
Qualifications & Experience
* You will be graduating in 2026 or have recently graduated with at least a 2:2 in a relevant Bachelors or Master’s degree.
* You will demonstrate typical Arcadian skills including resilience, creativity, analytical thinking, and being a team player.
* You will have excellent communication skills and the ability to use your technical knowledge to influence and consult stakeholders.
* Willing to travel and stay away from home when required (virtual working where possible).
Accepted degrees
* Roles within Highways and Transportation are open to candidates with a BEng or MEng in Civil, Structural, or Geotechnical Engineering.
* Roles within Rail, Water & Energy are open to candidates with a BEng or MEng in Civil or Structural Engineering.
Why Arcadis?
We empower everyone to be their best. We believe every contribution matters and pursue a skills-based approach to carve your career path and maximise impact. You’ll do meaningful work and help deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet.
Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging
We want you to bring your best self to work. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of how we improve quality of life. We work across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.
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