Tilbury Douglas |

As a UK regional contractor, we provide specialist design and build capabilities and are experienced at project management and integrating all aspects of a project.

With 140 years of experience, we are a trusted partner of central and local government and are used to working closely with our customers and supply chain to achieve outstanding results.

We are a member of Build UK, supporting efficiency and productivity improvements within the industry, and shaping future policies.

Why construction?
The construction industry offers a dynamic environment where your skills, experience and drive pave the way for a successful and fulfilling career. There are rewarding opportunities for everyone!

Construction is a transformative industry that offers a wealth of choices and contributes to a sustainable future. It is more than bricks and mortar — it is about shaping the built environment for generations to come!

Why Tilbury Douglas?
We champion an inclusive culture that values and respects everyone’s unique background and perspective. We believe a diverse workforce fosters innovation and excellence. We strive to create a welcoming environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their talents.

Our people are our passion
We focus on your strengths and aspirations, not just your qualifications. With a wide range of disciplines and projects, you will find the perfect fit to ignite your passion for the industry. Join us and we will help you unlock your potential and chart a fulfilling career path in construction.

Do our values align with yours?

Everyone has a voice
We strive to bring more diversity into our business through recruitment and specialist partnerships, and with diversity comes a strong culture of inclusivity. We ensure that everyone’s voice is heard through open-door policies and community events throughout the business.

Do the right thing
We go to the nth degree for our clients, always approaching a project with a can-do attitude that is grounded in experience.

Take pride in what you do
We celebrate our achievements, share our experiences and define the next best-practice standards for future generations across our business.

Bring better to life
We challenge ourselves and our clients to push our work further, to deliver a greater, sustainable and societal impact.

What we can offer you (these differ in accordance to role - each advert will provide benefits relevant to the vacancy)

We have an excellent internal culture which promotes ongoing learning in a diverse and inclusive environment, offering career development and training pathways.

• Competitive Salary
• Car allowance
• Support from our professionally qualified team to coach and mentor you, providing you the experience you need to become a chartered surveyor.
• 26 days annual leave
• Private medical insurance
• Life Assurance
• Company pension scheme matched up to 8%
• 2 days volunteering opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Perks at Work employee discount scheme offering discounts on a range of categories such as electronics, home appliances, food & groceries, car buying, travel, fitness and more.
• Flexible Benefits scheme which includes the opportunity to purchase benefits such as:
• Critical illness insurance (with option to purchase for your partner)
• Dental Insurance
• Travel insurance
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Retail vouchers/payroll giving/activity pass for top leisure attractions.

Application & Selection Process

Stage 1: As part of the application, so we can find out more about you and what you can bring you will be asked to answer some questions in addition to uploading your current CV.
Stage 2: If you successfully meet the criteria, you will be invited to the next stage which will involve some online assessments. Notifications and further instructions will follow.
Stage 3: If you are shortlisted, you will be invited to attend the final stage which will be a mini assessment centre held in a local location.
Stage 4: If you are successful you will be issued with a job offer.

We appreciate you are used to a hyper connected world and prize diversity of views where in your career you want to continue to collaborate with people from different backgrounds.

At Tilbury Douglas we value and celebrate all individual differences. We treat everyone fairly, no matter your gender, sexual orientation, background, age or disability, and give everyone the opportunities for new and varied experiences.

We have an EDI policy which we are committed to and are part of investors in diversity.

Building a healthy working environment
At Tilbury Douglas, creating a working environment that promotes both physical and mental health is important to colleagues’ overall wellbeing and, as a result, productivity. We seek to understand and implement best practice in our working conditions, this includes both our physical environment and our wider organisational culture and ways of working. A healthy working environment includes a positive working experience which means being attentive to issues such as autonomy, work-life balance and opportunities for learning, development, and progression.

Employee assistance programme
Our employee assistance programme offers you direct access to a range of advisory support services – 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every day of the year – to help you in your job and in your everyday life.

We're passionate about providing opportunities for you to grow and develop both personally and professionally.

We value difference and don’t believe in a ‘one size fits all’. We recognise that people learn and develop in different ways. We also believe that learning from others is a key and powerful element in your personal development and in the progression of your career.

Our Tilbury Douglas career pathways support this approach, helping you to identify a range of development options to enable you to progress with the key skills you’ll need to build your career with us.
Professional Membership
We have a long history of working with professional bodies across a range of sectors.

Chartered/Fellow Membership demonstrates our professional competence and helps us to maintain and secure new work.

To support your development through Professional Membership TD will provide:

Training and practical experience (where practically possible)
The support of a colleague who's already a professional member of the relevant institution
Contribute up to £600 towards membership fees for one Membership

* restrictions apply

Employees can now claim back fees for Application and Assessment (this excludes any resits).

Our commitment to reducing our own carbon emissions
Over the past 10 years, we have continued to reduce our own carbon emissions from our permanent offices, construction sites, business travel, water consumption, office waste and construction waste. So that we understand our own carbon footprint, we measure our greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with the Carbon Reduce Scheme and ISO 14064 Part 1 2018.

We are committed to managing and reducing our own operational emissions. Our own carbon reduction initiatives include:

Introduced a green car scheme, providing employees with an electric or plug-in hybrid vehicle and installing electric charging points across our offices and sites
Introduced a flexible working policy, reducing business travel and enabling a better work-life balance

Our net zero plan
We have been measuring and reducing our own carbon emissions since 2013 and we were one of the first contractors to publish a PPN 06/21 compliant Carbon Reduction Plan, which meets the requirements of Carbon Reduce certification.

We annually review our biggest sources of our emissions and analyse our performance against our 2019 baseline year to confirm that our business processes and our carbon reduction initiatives are effective at reducing emissions. Our operational emissions are independently audited by Achilles through the Carbon Reduce scheme, and we are on track to achieve our targets.

In May 2024, we achieved carbon neutral accreditation and received certification from Achilles. This accreditation means we have met the requirements of the net carbon zero certification, having measured our greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with ISO 14064 Part 1 2018.

It also certifies that we are committed to managing and reducing our emissions, as well as investing in appropriate verified carbon credits to offset the small amount of remaining unavoidable emissions in our operational activities.

Social value
We are committed to giving back to the communities we work with. Whether through our apprenticeship programme, supply chain engagement or our volunteering efforts, we are passionate about contributing to the local economy and community.

We are proud to have delivered hundreds of vital projects across the UK, including new schools, hospitals, roads and other infrastructure – leaving a lasting positive impact on communities and lives.

Modern methods of construction (MMC)
Modern methods of construction are increasingly important to the future of the sector. The government’s 2025 Construction Strategy has set ambitious targets to reduce carbon, enhance sustainability and promote the use of ‘smart’ technology.

We are committed to the use and integration of modern methods of construction in our business. Our Technical team uses collaborative technology to store standardised solutions and key supplier data. This data can be used to create a digital replica of a project – a ‘digital twin’. This digital twin provides a fuller understanding of a facilities components, interfaces and modules. It also provides a better basis for managing the asset, understanding operational carbon usage and reducing whole life cost.

Offsite manufacture
The use of digital technology also promotes the standardisation and harmonisation of the whole design and assembly process. Components are standardised, pre-manufactured and pre-assembled as far as possible off-site. The digital model process allows for a safer, more efficient site assembly, with minimum disruption to client operations. Data capture at every stage is then fed back into the digital model for future improvement.

Our decarbonisation offer
We consider decarbonisation across the whole life cycle of the buildings that we deliver. This includes upfront embodied carbon as well as carbon in maintenance, replacement, end of life deconstruction and recycling. We also deliver buildings that achieve net zero carbon in operation. We help our customers understand carbon challenges, reduce their energy costs and improve the quality of their buildings, for both new build and refurbishment schemes.

Our integrated mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) business means that we consider MEP options alongside fabric options, enabling us to identify the best value whole life carbon reductions for each customer pound spent.

Our comprehensive solution for carbon footprint management across customer estates includes:

Advice – initial assessments, business case formulation and improving customer knowledge
Implementation – design, planning, construction and installation
Performance monitoring – evaluating and optimising building performance

Working with our supply chain
We are also working with our supply chain to lower carbon emissions through the development of low carbon construction products, modern methods of construction and digital technology as well as implementing Environmental Product Declarations for whole life carbon in the products we use.

Assured delivery
We have places on many national construction frameworks including the Procure Partnerships Decarbonisation framework as well as Pagabo, YORhub, Southern Construction Framework, North West Construction Hub and NHS Shared Business Services. These enable efficient delivery of customer decarbonisation requirements through prequalified and sustainable contracting mechanisms.