Max Fordham LLP |

We are a partnership of engineers, designers and consultants, working with the built environment, to deliver a sustainable future and a thriving planet. Founded in 1966 by the visionary engineer Max Fordham, we strive to build on our heritage as innovators and leaders in truly sustainable building design.

Our founding philosophy is fundamentally democratic and inclusive. It’s one where people enjoy the flexibilities of shared responsibility and ownership. Our people are drawn to this ideal which encourages individuals to use their voice in all decision making, creating a workplace they can be proud to be part of.

Embedded in Max Fordham’s fabric is a passion for nurturing early talent and the belief that graduates are the future of our practice. We welcome graduates from varied backgrounds – who are curious about pushing boundaries and eager to forge a meaningful career path – and help them become skilful engineers, designers, or consultants, who are passionate about transforming the built environment sustainably and humanely through beautiful engineering solutions.

You’ll be supported throughout your career journey with us, reaching as far and as high as your aspirations take you. A principles-led and integrated training programme, with expert support from mentors, peers, and senior colleagues, will pave your way to chartership and beyond, opening future opportunities to higher levels of seniority and leadership.

Beautiful engineering for a sustainable future.

Our long-standing design philosophy, inspired by Max, endures today. ‘Beautiful Engineering’ encapsulates our belief in elegant, sustainable outcomes that are good for humanity and good for the planet.

In essence, we’re an employee-owned business and our culture thrives on open, honest, collaborative relationships based on mutual trust and respect.

We strive to build a practice that is truly representative of the society we live in. Our commitment is not only to eliminate and avoid discrimination but to create an environment where our differences are celebrated and valued.

Truly sustainable buildings by a truly sustainable business

Our world is facing a climate and biodiversity emergency, and we’re fully committed to continue pushing boundaries, to keep learning, keep sharing what we’ve learnt, and keep campaigning for our industry to do better.

Max was a pioneer in sustainable, low-energy and low-carbon building design, and the practice remains at the forefront of applying net zero carbon, Passivhaus, environmental design, strategic sustainability, and circular economy and reuse strategies to the built environment.

As a business we ‘practice what we preach’ through our various commitments, including most recently the Science Based Targets initiative, the World Green Building Council (GBC) Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment, and being the first UK business to have all our offices verified as net zero carbon in operation.

If you are curious about pushing boundaries and eager to forge a meaningful career path, to become skilful engineers, designers or consultants passionate about transforming the built environment in a sustainable way, then we invite you to apply to our open roles or to register your interest to be notified for future vacancies.

We welcome graduates from varied backgrounds, including engineering, physical sciences, architecture, and other technical or social science backgrounds.