Graduate Civil Engineer (Infrastructure) - Exeter - 2025
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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.
Your role:
We are looking for a Graduate Civil Engineer for our Infrastructure team to be based in Exeter, joining our 2025 Graduate Programme.
As a Stantec graduate, you will collaborate with your team and wider cohort, developing your civil engineering expertise within an exciting and creative interdisciplinary environment.
The Opportunity
You will be part of an experienced civils team in Exeter, working within a wider team in the South-West where you will work across a number of development and road infrastructure projects. Your development will include using design software and your own engineering ingenuity to plan and coordinate drainage, utility and road designs. You will work within an engineering team liaising with clients, co-professionals and other disciplines within the office and across our business. You will gain experience of all project stages and knowledge through site visits and high contact time with your team, to become a capable civil engineer in your own right.
The Exeter Civils team are a group of passionate, talented and welcoming individuals with extensive expertise. The team are based in the office full time, presenting a unique advantage, as you will always have support on hand. The team works closely with a variety of colleagues, providing great exposure to the various disciplines within the company. In Exeter, you will be working in a modern office with a positive staff ethos, where people are put first and you will be exposed to a variety of different disciplines.
Our team enjoy delivering a diverse mix of projects to create fulfilling environment and continually develop new skills. Our primary focus is delivering environmentally sensitive solutions, adopting reuse over building new to mitigate environmental impacts. Our projects include a mix of public and private sector schemes in the region which include significant development, infrastructure and regeneration projects. This includes the largest gigafactory in Europe, large scale infrastructure projects with the West of England Combined Authority framework and the Bus Service Improvement Plan in North Somerset.
Assisting with technical input into a variety of projects, your duties could include:
- Getting involved in the development of concept, preliminary and detailed scheme designs.
- Preparing drawing packages, design reports, specifications and technical notes.
- Completing engineering design work and calculations, this could include preparing 3D design models of our projects, designing and evaluating drainage networks or designing minor structures.
- Researching the latest technologies and construction techniques and playing a key role in minimising the environmental impact of our projects.
- Assisting in the management of Health and Safety risks and taking steps to proactively manage and mitigate potential issues.
- Preparing cost estimates and assisting our clients to value engineer the best solutions within given time, cost and environmental constraints.
- Developing an understanding of the various stakeholders involved in infrastructure design and management by collaborating with professionals from other organisations and disciplines.
- Managing and conducting on-site surveys and assessments for your designs.
- Preparing carbon emission calculations and workbooks to document carbon outputs of projects.
Take a look at our Civil Engineering service line:- Civil Engineering (stantec.com), and review the career journey of our Stantec graduates here:- Stantec | Career Stories
At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and a keen interest in the Infrastructure sector, you will be:-
- A collaborator: You’ll love to work effectively with lots of different people at different levels, all inputting their part towards a shared goal.
- An adapter: Able to remain calm in new situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.
- A planner: Organizing and managing your own activities, dealing effectively with multiple priorities with a structured approach.
- A striver: Exhibiting ownership, consistently delivering on tasks and objectives. You’ll be motivated and proactive in your tasks, having the desire to make a real difference.
- A multi-tasker: Thinking about more than one task at a time, while still having an eye for detail.
- A problem-solver: You’ll love to give your thoughts based on what you see, being unafraid to challenge conventional thinking.
Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office 4 days per week, to ensure that you receive sufficient time with your team and receive 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 gain professional chartership
- A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups)
Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK for an indefinite period without limitation.
Please take a look at our Graduate FAQs (Graduate Application FAQs) if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your application!
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About Stantec
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 deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.
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Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.
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