Graduate Electrical Engineer (Building Services) - Reading - 2025

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Application Deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.

Your role:

We are looking for a Graduate Electrical Engineer for our Building Services team to be based in Reading, joining our 2025 Graduate Programme.

As a Stantec graduate, you will collaborate with your team and wider cohort, developing your electrical engineering expertise within an exciting and creative interdisciplinary environment.

In this role, you will help create a comfortable environment by designing and delivering the electrical components of systems such as lighting, power, data, fire systems, security, distribution networks, whilst retaining a focus on the sustainability and environmental impact of each design. You will be exposed to BIM modelling, building physics, collaboration and co-ordination and gain detailed knowledge of building regulations and industry guidance.

You will join a supportive and successful team with exciting career opportunities, gain great client exposure and professional development and work in an innovative and collaborative environment.

About you:

At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Engineering Design, we’d love to receive your application if you are:

• A collaborator: You’ll love to work effectively with lots of different people at different levels, all inputting their part towards a shared goal.
• An adapter: Able to remain calm in new situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.
• A planner: Organizing and managing your own activities, dealing effectively with multiple priorities with a structured approach.
• A striver: Exhibiting ownership, consistently delivering on tasks and objectives. You’ll be motivated and proactive in your tasks, having the desire to make a real difference.
• A multi-tasker: Thinking about more than one task at a time, while still having an eye for detail.
• A problem-solver: You’ll love to give your thoughts based on what you see, being unafraid to challenge conventional thinking.

Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office 4 days per week, to ensure that you receive sufficient time with your team and receive the appropriate level of support.

What we can offer you:

• A competitive salary
• Private medical insurance
• A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection and life assurance
• Permanent employment contract to demonstrate our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec
• Professional progression plan, supporting you to gain professional chartership
• A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network

Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK for an indefinite period without limitation.

Please take a look at our Graduate FAQs if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your application!

About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.

At Stantec we are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process then please inform a member of our Talent Acquisition team.