2025 Graduate Programme (UK) - Property & Buildings and Industry

In today’s world it’s important to work for a company that has clear purpose, giving back to communities and supporting what is truly important in the world.

When considering a career move its vital to work for a business that is aligned to your values and goals, a place where you can belong.

We are looking for graduates for our Building Structures, Building Services and Building Specialists teams, who have a adaptable approach and an appetite to learn in a leading engineering and professional services firm. We want you to enjoy working in a collaborative environment where you can apply your skills working for a diverse range of clients and projects.

You will join an enthusiastic and supportive team providing you with a challenging and fulfilling working experience. We will fully support your development through enrolment onto a training agreement with an appropriate professional body enabling you to progress to chartered status.

PROJECTS:

• Prince Charles Hospital Refurbishment
• Elephant & Castle Town Centre
• 1 Undershaft – the tallest office development in London
• HS2 Stations at Old Oak Common and Curzon Street
• Stadium projects in the Middle East and a range of office and residential projects in London and the South-East

RESPONSIBILITES AND REQUIREMENTS:

As a worldwide community of built environment experts, we are driven by a passion to change the world for the better. We are passionate about tackling the challenges of complex projects and sophisticated architecture. We deliver innovative buildings of the highest quality that meet the needs of investors, developers, owners, and occupants, and we are experts in the delivery of low carbon infrastructure that will be essential to meet the UK’s Net Zero targets.

We are recruiting for Graduate Engineers throughout the UK for the following business disciplines:

Building Services - Join WSP’s integrated MEP team, delivering some of the UK and Europe’s largest, most complex projects. Our expertise spans all areas of MEP engineering, including electrical power systems, energy analysis, and resilient utility design. Our mechanical engineers focus on HVAC, environmental controls, energy master-planning, and air filtration.

As a graduate, you’ll work on prestigious projects and contribute to net zero carbon strategies.

• Building Services - Degree backgrounds considered: Building Services Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical or Electronic Engineering, Sustainability (Energy & Sustainability), ICT, and Public Health

Locations available: London, Guildford, Cambridge, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester, Leeds and Glasgow.

Building Services - SMART Buildings - With sustainability at the core, our SMART services integrate building systems and technologies to deliver future-ready, net-zero buildings.

• Smart Buildings - Degree backgrounds considered : Mechanical Engineering and SMART Buildings

Location: London

Building Structures - Collaborate with leading architects and developers on award-winning projects. You’ll engage in structural design, coordination, and preparing reports for iconic UK projects, from HS2 stations to smaller installations.

• Building Structures - Degrees backgrounds considered: MEng Structural Engineering, MEng Civil & Structural Engineering

Locations available: Exeter, Birmingham, Newcastle, Edinburgh and Belfast.

Building Specialists (Fire Engineering) - As a Graduate fire engineer, you will work on diverse projects, ensuring innovative design aligns with fire safety. You'll liaise with architects, local authorities, and fire services to enhance building safety. As well collaborating with other internal disciplines within Property & Buildings and further teams across WSP.

• Fire Engineering - Degree backgrounds considered: Fire Engineering, Chemical and Mechanical Engineering.

Location: London

Building Specialists (Digital Solutions) – Our Digital team lead the implementation of Building Information Modelling (BIM), information management and visualisation across Property and Buildings. It is where groundbreaking ideas and innovative technologies shape the future of the built environment.

Our digital team are at the forefront of transforming traditional practices into smart, efficient, and sustainable solutions harnessing the power of BIM, and leveraging the latest digital innovations to revolutionise the way we design, construct, and maintain structures.

• Digital Solutions - Degree backgrounds considered: MEng in Architectural, Structural, Mechanical Engineering or Dip Arc BArch Architecture, MSc BIM. Other constructions degrees may also be considered.

Location: London

Industry

Our Industry team work on projects in process industries with a focus on pharmaceutical and fine chemicals but get involved with a wide range of other plants too including emerging hydrogen and battery projects.

We are a multi-disciplinary process industries design team that have involvement from concept to completion of projects. Core work is basic and detailed stages, but we get involved with all stages from site master planning up to construction completion, providing our own estimates and proposals support in winning work through delivering the designs not only as part of our own multi-disciplinary team, but often integrated with Clients who we work with very closely.

For this team we are looking for Graduates for the following teams: Process Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Controls and Instrumentation.

• Industry Degree backgrounds considered: MEng, Mechanical, Chemical, Process, Electrical and Control & Instrumentation.

Location available: Mechanical and Process - Birmingham.
Location available: Electrical - Birmingham and Glasgow.
Locations available: Control & Instrumentation- Birmingham and Newcastle.

GRADUATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME:

Our Graduates told us the best part of being on the Graduate Development Programme is the support for their own personal development and large network available to them.

They also said they had the chance to work on a wide variety of projects enabling them to work closely with other disciplines, allowing them to gain a better understanding of their role on projects and how this enhances the schemes they are involved in. As well as the large pool of experts to guide them throughout their journey.

We have established relationships with professional institutions including but not all ICE, IStructE, IET, CIBSE, CIHT, CILT, IMechE, IChemE, CIWEM, RICS, RTPI, SocEnv & APM. You will have the opportunity to select a technical mentor to help you on your journey, and to reward you for your efforts, (when you reach certain professional milestones, you’ll even get a bonus as a thank you and well done for your hard work). We are also able to support professional development with many other approved professional institutions that may not be included in this list.

Our 2-year Graduate Programme is designed to support personal career development and growth through a blended learning experience. The programme includes core business skills and career focused training, networking opportunities, professional registration mentoring and on-the-job experience. The development programme consists of four key streams illustrated below:

• 2 day in-person induction
• In person training days
• Technical role specific training
• Curated online content
• On-the-job experience
• Additional resources and activities

We also have a unique Professional Growth Network (PGN), which is a networking group run by early career professionals for ECP’s. It helps to grow your network of contacts across the business as well as providing you with opportunities for extra experience and to support you in achieving chartered status or other professional accreditations.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

You’ll be graduating in 2025 or have recently graduated with at least a 2:2 in a master’s or bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject for the role you are applying for. To assist you in finding potential areas of the business that are relevant to you. Please explore our degree search tool on our graduate website.

• Candidates must complete the application form in full answering all specific questions. This requirement applies to all candidates, inclusive of their background. Successful completion of this stage is mandatory. Candidates who pass this initial stage, will then be required to complete an online behavioural assessment. Both the application form and the behavioural assessment are essential parts of the early careers recruitment process.
• You'll be looking to start work in either April or September 2025 and will ideally have less than 15 months relevant experience.
• You’ll have a passion for Environmental Consulting and/or sustainable engineering solutions
• You will have a creativity to solve problems
• You’ll want to stretch and inspire us, sharing new ideas you have
• You’ll have excellent interpersonal skills
• You’ll have the ability to work effectively in a team, collaborating with colleagues and adapting to progressive project environments.
• You’ll have the ability to manage your own time and plan your workload effectively.

Please be aware behavioural assessment results at WSP are valid for a period of 12 months, if you have completed an assessment within this timeframe and been unsuccessful, we will not be able to consider your application.

Early applications are recommended, and we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the advertised closing date.

HOW LONG DOES THE PROCESS TAKE?

You'll receive an email acknowledging receipt of your application within 5 days of submission. After reviewing your application, if we feel your background and skills are suitable, you will be sent through to the second stage in the process which is an online behavioural assessment.

If you are successful after completing the assessment, we will be work hard to match you to the most suitable roles in our business.

Most applications complete initial assessments and are progressed to the next stage, which is an interview day, within 8-10 weeks but it’s good to know that the whole process can last up to 12 weeks in total if you're an early applicant. We will aim to keep you informed throughout the time that your application is being considered however, due to the volume of applications received, we are not able to respond to individual requests for status updates.