The Opportunity

On this year long Industrial Placement you'll work alongside skilled professionals and from day one you will be working on real life meaningful projects - adding add value to clients, while exploring challenges with curiosity and creativity.
You'll learn from others and begin creating your professional network ready for when you graduate. There are regular learning sessions with our leadership team, opportunities for site visits to local projects and all kinds of social events that will support your learning and development.

Our aim is to welcome as many students back into our other programmes, be that another internship or potential graduate position. This placement is the stepping-stone to your future.

Teams available within Civil Engineering:

Civil Engineering(click here to apply)

Available locations: Leeds

Our Civil Engineers can find themselves working in partnership with our experts in buildings, bridges, tunnels, geotechnics, environmental consulting and transport planning. Energy, collaboration, and effective communication is fundamental to bring these elements together as our Civil Engineering teams are often at the core of these disciplines acting as integrators or facilitators. Our teams also work closely with many external bodies to deliver the project, from clients and architects to statutory approval organisations. Our core skills in the Civil Engineering teams typically include masterplan development, sustainable drainage designs, flood risk management, maritime ports, pavement designs, earthworks assessments, access road design and utilities coordination.

We are looking for candidates who are working towards a degree in Civil Engineering.

Civil Engineering – Pavements (click here to apply)

Available locations: Nottingham

Our Civil Engineers can find themselves working in diverse roles from major heavy-duty pavements such as ports, and airports to other major Infrastructure projects such as major highways to smaller local site developments. An interest in heavy duty pavements and aviation would be desirable. Collaboration, and effective communication is fundamental to success as our Civil Engineering teams are often at the core of these projects acting as integrators or facilitators, working closely with many internal specialists and external bodies from clients and contractors to statutory approval organisations.

We are looking for candidates who are working towards a degree in Civil Engineering.

Civil Engineering – Energy Structural (click here to apply)

Available locations: Glasgow

We are looking for a Civil Engineer Intern to join our growing Energy Water & Resources team in Arup's North sub-region, based in our Glasgow office. We are a diverse multi-disciplinary team working on a wide range of challenging and interesting projects. From your first day, you'll join a friendly and supportive team of highly experienced engineers and consultants. You'll also be able to connect in with an unrivalled global community of experts, where everyone is supported in their career path and encouraged to work towards achieving a professional qualification.

We are looking for candidates studying towards a Bachelors degree in Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering from an ICE or IStructE accredited course.

Is the role right for you?

We're looking for people who are curious and ready to evolve how you think and work. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas. At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. If you can share your knowledge and ideas and encourage others to do the same; whilst having a desire to deliver excellent services for clients – we'd like to hear from you.

You should be able to start this opportunity in September 2024.

At Arup, we care about each member’s success, so we can grow together.

Guided by our values, we provide an attractive total reward package that recognises the contribution of each of our members to our shared success. As well as competitive, fair and equitable pay, we offer a career in which all of our members can belong, grow and thrive – through benefits that support health and wellbeing, a wide range of learning opportunities and many possibilities to have an impact through the work they do.

We are owned in trust on behalf of our members, giving us the freedom, with personal responsibility, to set our own direction and choose work that aligns with our purpose and adds to Arup’s legacy. Our members collaborate on ambitious projects to deliver remarkable outcomes for our clients and communities. Profit Share is a key part of our reward, enabling permanent members to share in the results of our collective efforts.

We also provide for our permanent members Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance and Income protection cover. In addition, you’ll have access to flexible benefits to help you look after all aspects of your wellbeing and give you the freedom and flexibility to find the best solutions for you, your family, and your individual needs.