Graduate Transport Planner (Exeter)

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.

Your impact

Are you ready to start your career in an inclusive, flexible, and dynamic work environment? Join the Jacobs Graduate Development Programme (GDP) and have a meaningful, positive impact on our environments, communities, and societies worldwide. As a Jacobs Graduate, you will be part of a larger network of talent who are Challenging Today and Reinventing Tomorrow.

What we do at Jacobs

Our business focuses on providing solutions to future challenges such as climate change, the need for 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 and Ireland, we also deliver local projects that protect communities.

What will you get?

Our Graduate Development Programme is a structured two-year scheme where we provide the framework, mentoring, and experiences to help you maximize your skills and ambitions. On joining our scheme in September 2025, you’ll rapidly gain knowledge of how our company works and the impact that you can have to help us move towards a more connected and sustainable world.

About the opportunities

The Graduate Transport Planners/Engineers will join our Transport Planning and Mobility Solutions team which is part of our Cities & Places business unit. We can create thriving places across different scales: from regions to cities, neighbourhoods to sites, by offering an integrated design approach. Our business unit brings together transport planners, engineers, architects, designers, surveyors, urban designers, and project managers to provide collaborative and coordinated value design solutions for our clients both nationally and internationally.

Our team skillsets cover the full remit of transport planning across all modes; from high-level policy and strategy advice through transport modelling/appraisal to active travel, streets design, traffic engineering, and junction design. We are interested in hearing from candidates who are keen to develop a rounded set of skills, as well as those who have more specialized interests including but not limited to traffic engineering, active travel scheme design and transformational placemaking, transport decarbonisation, traffic management solutions, or public transport schemes.

You will have the support of a mentor, our local and regional team, our management team, and experts who will help guide your progress. You will also be given the opportunity to pursue relevant business and technical training to support your career development, as well as room to grow your network and knowledge base to create innovative solutions.

We are looking for aspirational Graduate Transport Planners/Engineers to join our teams in the UK and Ireland. This opportunity is for a role in our Exeter office.

Here's what you'll need

• Be working towards a relevant Degree or Master’s level qualification such as Transport Planning, Urban Design, Civil or other Engineering, Geography, Economics, Mathematics/Statistics, Physics, Natural Sciences, Operational Research, Data/Computer Science, or Planning.
• Hold a keen interest in transport planning and/or traffic engineering topics, such as: healthy streets, active travel, mass transit, junction improvement, placemaking, transport policy/strategy, transport modelling/appraisal, etc.
• Be a flexible self-starter who is keen and motivated to drive your career forward.
• Demonstrate adaptability to change with an appetite for learning new things, such as Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and transport modelling software.
• Desire to engage with our wider office activities, such as STEM, Employee Networks, and BeyondZero.
• Have the permanent right to work in the UK.

Selection Process

• Step 1: Apply Online
• Step 2: Interview

What else we provide

• A flexible workstyle, embracing a hybrid working pattern and supporting those who need to balance work/life commitments a bit differently than others.
• Free single medical cover and digital GP service.
• Reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships.
• An inclusive and diverse work environment, embracing the variety of disciplines, cultures, backgrounds, and lifestyles of our employees through our Jacobs Employee Networks.
• A focus on safety, health, and wellbeing, prioritising our people through a culture of caring and a positive mental health champion network.
• Opportunities to give back to our communities through our Collectively program, incorporating matched-funding, paid volunteering time, and charitable donations.

We want you to bring your whole, authentic self to Jacobs. Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.

If you require further support or reasonable adjustments regarding the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team.

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