Graduate Tunnel Engineer

Job description

Your Impact:

Are you ready to start your career in an inclusive, flexible, and dynamic work environment?

What are you waiting for? Apply today!

Your impact

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 People & Places Solutions 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, 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 maximise your skills and ambitions. On joining our scheme in September 2024, 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

Jacobs has developed one of the l eading and longest-standing ge otechnical and tunnelling consultancy capabilities in the UK, with approximately 400 geotechnical and tunnelling engineers delivering practical and innovative solutions to ground-related problems.

Reporting to one of the team leads within the Tunnels discipline this individual will be a key resource in projects for a range of internal and external clients. Our tunnels team focusses on a range of small to large scale projects from pipejack , to complex underground caverns, utilising techniques from empirical methods to 3D FE analyses. Work undertaken can be structural and/or geotechnical in nature.

The candidate will work within project teams, the role is likely to include:

• Use technological advances to improve quality, results and efficiency
  
• Preparation of designs and drawings
  

• Writing technical reports
  
• Participate in internal technical and professional activities
  
• Proactive approach to career development
  

Here's What You'll Need:

• Be working towards a Degree or Masters level qualification in Tunnelling, Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering or Structural Engineering.
  
• A flexible self-starter who is keen to drive your career forward
  
• Adaptable to change, with a thirst for learning new things
  
• You must have the right to work in the UK
  

Selection Process

• Step 1: Apply Online
  
• Step 2:Solo Video Assessment
  

• Step 3: Interview
  

Apply before October 31 st 2023 for your application to be considered in the first assessment window. You can still apply after this date if the role remains open to applications . However , you do so with the knowledge that we may not proceed with your application if the role is filled in the first assessment window .

What else we provide

• A flexible workstyl e, 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 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 with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team .

Your application experience is important to us and we're keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and if you need more from us before deciding to join Jacobs then please let us know.

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