Graduate Structural Engineer - 2025 Intake

Job Description

To be considered for this role, please make sure you read the job description carefully and apply by submitting all the relevant documents.

Launch your career and find your professional home at Ramboll. Be part of a supportive and engaging environment, where you can challenge and explore your professional interests, passions, and curiosity in ways that make the most of all the opportunities ahead of you.

We value the things that make you unique. Underpinned by a culture of openness, understanding, and respect, we’ll encourage you to shape your role to suit your working style, ambitions, and life outside work. Ramboll will support you to achieve a work/life balance using flexible and hybrid working.

Ramboll’s Nordic heritage and founding aim, of improving conditions for people and nature, continue to guide our decision-making. As a foundation-owned multinational company, with 97.5% shares owned by the Ramboll Foundation, profits are reinvested into the company for the continued development of employees or used to fund research, charitable and humanitarian projects.

Our commitment to be ‘The Partner for Sustainable Change’ and to act responsibly in everything that we do means that you’ll be working on projects that make a positive difference to individuals, communities, and the environment.

Our Early Careers Programme – EarlyCareers@Ramboll

You will join a community that will help you thrive. We have designed a training programme that will help you boost your personal, commercial, and technical development to kick-start your career with Ramboll. Ramboll provides extensive support throughout your chartership journey with a mentor’s support and a framework that allows our employees to gain chartered status faster than the industry average.

About the Opportunity

As a graduate engineer at Ramboll, you will be directly involved in some of the UK’s most innovative and complex projects. Each day as a graduate will provide you with new opportunities and challenges, making no two days feel the same. You will be involved in the design and delivery of buildings, including the component parts of the structure and associated infrastructure, monitoring implementation through the entire project lifecycle, from initial concepts to visits on site.

You will become part of the Buildings Department, which houses Structures, Civil, Mechanical & Electrical, Facades, Acoustics, and many more disciplines. Your role will allow you to collaborate with all disciplines, providing growth and knowledge to increase engineering competence.

As ‘the Partner for Sustainable Change’, we put sustainability at the forefront of our projects. We encourage our employees to go above and beyond current sustainable practices to provide our projects with relevant sustainable change.

Your skills and experience

From the moment you join Ramboll, we will support your personal and professional development so that you grow with the company. For this role, we believe your starting point is:

• Right to work in the UK
• MEng or MSc level degree in a relevant engineering subject (from an Engineering Council Accredited University) including modules in structural design
• Interest in the design of buildings and associated infrastructure, and an active curiosity about primary construction materials and emerging / innovative materials
• Ability to summarise and present engineering concepts in clear English and drawn formats
• An interest in digital transformation, tools, and methodologies
• Understanding of and passion for sustainable design

Personal qualities that will help you succeed in this role include flexibility and adaptability, a growth mindset, a positive attitude, proactivity, creativity, good communication skills, willingness and ability to learn, curiosity, enthusiasm, and reliability.

Benefits you will enjoy:

• Hybrid and flexible working
• 27 days holiday per year and 8 days bank holiday
• Professional subscription and support on becoming chartered
• Range of employee benefits, such as cycle-to-work scheme, private medical insurance, discounted Taste card subscription, Gymflex, and many more.

Selection Process:

• Step 1: Apply online
• Step 2: Screening call
• Step 3: Assessment centre – this is planned to take place in Birmingham on 6th February 2025

Work at the heart of sustainable change with Ramboll in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company. As a foundation-owned people company, founded in Denmark, we believe that the purpose of sustainable change is to create a thriving world for both nature and people. So, that’s where we start – and how we work. Our history is rooted in a clear vision of how a responsible company should act, and being open and curious is a cornerstone of our culture. Ramboll in the United Kingdom and Ireland has a proven track record of sustainable and responsible business and is a top ten engineering and environmental and sustainability consultancy in the UK, with more than 1,500 employees across 16 offices. Ramboll experts deliver innovative solutions across Buildings, Transport, Environment & Health, and Energy. In 2024, Ramboll was included in the Sunday Times’ list of Best Places to Work.

How to apply

Apply online. Attach your CV and Cover Letter. In a separate document, please address the following questions:

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)
2. Why are you interested in joining Ramboll and what strengths do you have which will contribute to your role within the Ramboll team? (max. 150 words)
3. What do you believe are the key challenges in the building industry and what do you believe are the best solutions to overcome these? (max. 150 words)
4. We are looking for applicants across all of our UK offices. Please provide a list of locations which you would consider working from. Please note that this does not exclude you from other offices should opportunities arise - it enables us to review applications by location preference.

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 job.advert.accessibility@ramboll.com with such requests.

Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered. Based on the volume of applications received we reserve the right to close applications early.

Application deadline : 6th December 2024

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.