Graduate scheme
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Application Deadline
Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.
The Opportunity
We are looking for a Graduate Fire Engineer to join our progressive, award-winning Fire Engineering team in our Manchester office as part of our 2026 Graduate Programme, where you will help deliver sustainable projects for our communities, planet, and society.
Our Fire Engineering team has earned a reputation for delivering technically excellent work. From concept to construction, our fire engineering expertise helps to optimise design and ensure complex buildings are compliant with regulations. We have extensive experience across public sector, residential, commercial, industrial, and high-hazard process projects, providing services from site appraisal through planning, design, and delivery.
We seek graduates with a passion for the built environment and the desire to work in a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary team focused on sustainability, technical excellence, and shaping construction in the UK and overseas. Our projects will inspire you, build your confidence, and enable you to take on big challenges throughout your career.
Your Role
With the support of your manager and senior colleagues, your responsibilities will include:
- Fire engineering design on a number of projects
- Providing early-stage strategic input to design
For more information on the services we provide to our clients, please visit our website.
About You
At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with a degree and/or master’s qualification in a relevant engineering discipline with modules relating to Fire Safety and Fire Engineering, and a keen interest in our industry, we’d love to receive your application if you are:
- An Adapter: You remain calm in new and changing situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.
- A Perseverer: You stay composed in the face of setbacks, approaching challenges with confidence and determination.
- A Collaborator: You work effectively with many different people, considering others’ perspectives to shape better outcomes.
- A Problem-Solver: You share thoughtful insights based on what you see and are unafraid to challenge conventional thinking.
Working Pattern
Graduates are asked to come into the office a minimum of 4 days per week to ensure sufficient time with your team and the appropriate level of support.
What We Can Offer You
- A competitive salary
- Private medical insurance
- A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection, and life assurance
- Permanent employment contract to demonstrate our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec
- Professional progression plan, supporting you to attain professional status
- A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group, plus a wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs on our website)
Please take a look at our Graduate FAQs if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your application!
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About Stantec
The Stantec community unites more than 32,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver, and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy, and prosperous communities.
Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We address today’s challenges while keeping a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, including delivering clean growth, supporting radical changes in our economy, and meeting the needs of future communities.
Equal Opportunities
Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibits discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations, or any other condition of employment. Stantec complies with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.
Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is crucial to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.
Accessibility and Support
We want you to perform your best at every stage of the recruitment process and are committed to ensuring it is accessible to all. If you need any support or require adjustments to be made, please let us know during your application and we will discuss how we can support you.
More Details
Locations
Manchester
