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.
We’re looking for a Graduate Fire Engineer to join our progressive, award-winning Fire Engineering team in our Newcastle office as part of our 2026 Graduate Programme, where you’ll help deliver sustainable projects for our communities, planet, and society.
About the Fire Engineering Team
Our Fire Engineering team has earned a reputation for delivering technically excellent work. From concept to construction, our fire engineering expertise helps 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. We deliver a range of engineering services throughout each step of the development process, from site appraisal through planning, design, and delivery.
We are looking for 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 the biggest challenges throughout your career.
Your Role
- Fire engineering design on a number of projects.
- Early-stage strategic input to design.
Workplace Presence
Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office a minimum of 4 days per week to ensure you receive sufficient time with your team and the appropriate level of support.
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: Able to remain calm in new and changing situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.
- A Perseverer: Composed in the face of setbacks, approaching challenges with confidence and determination.
- A Collaborator: Effective working with many different people, considering others’ perspectives to shape better outcomes.
- A Problem-Solver: Keen to share your thoughts based on what you see, unafraid to challenge conventional thinking.
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, Early Careers peer group, and wider Employee Resource Group (ERG) network.
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—delivering clean growth, supporting radical changes in our economy, and meeting the needs of future communities.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants 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 is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.
Inclusive Culture
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 Adjustments
At Stantec, 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, let us know and we will discuss how we can support you.
More Details
Locations
Newcastle upon Tyne
