Industrial Placement – Civil Engineer- Energy, Water & Resources

Company: Arup
Apply for the Industrial Placement – Civil Engineer- Energy, Water & Resources
Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

Join Arup as a Civil Engineering industrial placement to work on real projects across energy, water and infrastructure. You’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver resilient solutions, while gaining hands-on experience and a professional network. Expect site visits, learning sessions, and exposure to client interactions that shape a low-carbon future. This placement serves as a stepping-stone to your graduate career in a world-renowned, values-driven firm.

Pay / Benefits

  • attractive total reward package
  • health and wellbeing support
  • learning opportunities
  • impactful work for communities
  • Profit Share
  • flexible working

Responsibilities

  • Carrying out assessment, analysis, and design activities; supporting the creation of design reports, drawings, calculations, and specifications
  • Collaborating with colleagues in related disciplines and with landscape, environmental specialists, and planners
  • Participating in meetings with clients, local authorities and stakeholders; conducting site visits
  • Specifying and analysing survey information to inform solution development
  • Developing options and supporting engineering solutions and business cases
  • Contributing to sustainability reviews and low/zero carbon strategies; carbon calculations and material assessments
  • Creating and interpreting digital data to analyze large datasets
  • Undertaking feasibility studies and preparing technical reports
  • Engaging in offshore wind, tidal, hydrogen and renewables-related studies and projects
  • Providing input to project deliverables from concept through design and construction

Key requirements

  • Partly completed Civil Engineering degree or relevant engineering degree; 2:1 or above expected
  • Strong numerical skills and excellent verbal and written communication
  • Strong independent work ethic and ability to work in a team
  • Drive for technical excellence; analytical mindset
  • Creativity and willingness to think beyond the norm
  • Proactive, takes initiative and responsible
  • Eagerness to learn new skills and deliver high-quality client work
  • Passion for creating a sustainable future and exploring digital methods in delivery
  • communication
  • teamwork
  • analytical thinking
  • MicroDrainage/InfoDrainage
  • GIS
  • AutoCAD/Civil 3D/Bentley MicroStation

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Posted: October 10th, 2026