Civils/Construction Graduate Scheme 2025

This opportunity is for you to join us in our Civils Engineering team within the Facilities department. Facilities is responsible for all the onsite infrastructure, from the buildings, to lighting, heating and management of wastewater treatment, the road maintenance, to the distribution network for electricity, air, water and gas and fire prevention systems, making this department an invaluable area of our daily operations.

Your Time Here:

Here at Toyota, we develop members focusing on personal and professional development. Over the two-year scheme, you'll get to see the breadth of our business, receiving responsibility that will stretch your problem-solving skills and introduce you to people at all levels. It’s a challenging scheme, consistently testing your abilities and you’ll receive plenty of support from your mentor, managers, and colleagues.

In this role, you will work to replace and improve equipment to meet our environmental and energy targets, and legal compliance requirements. You will work extensively with contractors and the Facilities maintenance team, supported by other Engineers and management to communicate and deliver projects in:

• New Buildings
• Modifications to & maintenance of existing buildings & structures
• Civils works, including drainage systems, roadways and buried services
• Construction of production machinery pits
• Internal office area/Member welfare improvements
• Managing contracts for Safety & Legislative areas such as Gas, Fire, Pressure vessels & Lifting Equipment.

Previous projects in this area include; Large car park construction on a greenfield site, Large scale Solar PV Installation, Production building structural modifications & extensions, On site Restaurant refurbishment, Internal Member welfare & decoration improvements, CO2 & Energy Reduction, and Plant Investment (30 year refurbishment of site infrastructure).

You will have the ability to work within given timescales and opportunity to develop competency in the following:

• Project Management
• Structural Analysis
• Ground conditions analysis
• Local Authority Planning requirements
• Building Regulations & Control requirements
• CAD/Microsoft office

General Information:

All graduates will take part in six weeks of line training. This will mean that for those six weeks you will work on an area where we build the cars on the shop floor. This experience is extremely rewarding and interesting and gives you a real hands-on insight into what Toyota Manufacturing is all about. We believe this experience is crucial for your personal development and rather unique to our company.  

We place great emphasis on learning by doing - usually through structured, on-the-job training. Our graduate programme is assessed and designed to help you reach the standard needed to move into an specialist or engineer position at the end of the 2-year programme.

What we look for:

Alongside having a consistently great academic record, with a minimum 2:1 predicted degree result*, we are looking for people who eagerly want to learn from others and are motivated to take on new challenges with a positive mindset. We believe that there's always a better way, therefore if you share our values and thrive on analysing problems from different angles to develop solutions, you could go a long way with us. Similarly, taking a practical approach to your work is important – you will need to be as comfortable on the shop floor as you are in the office, conducting "go-look-see” activities to visualise problems and logically apply countermeasures with supporting data. You will often be leading and co-ordinating others in mixed teams of Production, Maintenance and Engineers, therefore good interpersonal skills and effective communication are essential to ensure teamwork across projects.

*A construction related degree required. Technical knowledge & understanding of structures or geotechnical conditions would be beneficial, but not essential.