12-Month Work Placement - Building Structures Engineer

Arcadis; Greater London; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 23,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis offers a hands-on internship or 12‑month placement for engineering students, exposing you to real projects and clients in the UK and beyond.

You will develop core engineering and consulting techniques through signposted training, while being mentored and supported to become a technical expert within Arcadis’ values.

Qualifications

• Working towards a degree in a relevant subject (Placement & Intern only).
• Demonstrate Arcadian skills including resilience, creativity, analytical thinking and being a team player.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to use your technical knowledge to influence and consult stakeholders.
• Willing to travel and stay away from home when required (where possible we embrace virtual working).
• Comfortable with site based working, when required for projects.

Responsibilities

• Support design and interaction with other professionals on projects of varying size.
• Apply design principles to develop substructures and superstructures for new or existing buildings.
• Assist in coordinating with disciplines and stakeholders, and support project cost management.

Skills

Resilience

Creativity

Analytical thinking

Team player

Communication skills

Education

BEng or MEng, MSc in Structural/Civil Engineering with structural interests

Job description

Application Closing Date: 6th November 2026

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.

Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description

Our paid Intern & Placement programme is designed to give you a hands‑on insight into the work we do as a company and help to develop skills and knowledge within your chosen field. Supported by signposted training, the programme is based on Arcadis’ core values, giving you both technical training and support to help you develop both personally and professionally whilst with us. You will be exposed to real projects and clients and given a range of experiences to immerse yourself into over the course of your 10–12‑week internship or 12-month placement.

As an engineer joining Arcadis, you will be given the opportunity to specialise within your chosen discipline of engineering, and we ensure you obtain the appropriate experiences that you need to become a technical expert. Being an Engineer at Arcadis is about applying a human filter to all your technical expertise and training and making an impact through innovation and creativity. During our 12-month programme you will develop core engineering and consulting techniques that can be applied while working with our clients in the UK and potentially even some of our international clients around the globe.

Role accountabilities

Arcadis has a global community of structural engineers working on some of the most complex and challenging buildings in the public and private sector. We are committed to providing high quality and sustainable design solutions, using our technical knowledge and collaborating with other disciplines. You will be supported and mentored to deliver design and interact with other professionals on projects varying in size from the small local scale to the large strategic development of international relevance. We have an excellent program to support you in becoming chartered.

Using the most advanced design tools and techniques, you will be able to apply and expand your knowledge to enable the development of the structural solution for buildings of different types, both new and existing. Our projects range from the small local schools to the large gigafactories and data centres. Our teams include colleagues with different expertise and background, collaborating at multidisciplinary and multinational level.

Typical tasks of your daily work will include design of new substructures and superstructures of different types and based on different materials, assessment of existing structures, review of proposals by contractors or external consultants, coordination with other disciplines, site visits and other technical tasks. In addition, you will help managing projects and their costs within the structural team.

• Accepted degrees: BEng or MEng, MSc in Structural Engineering or Civil Engineering with structural interests.

Qualifications & Experience

• You will be working towards a degree in a relevant subject (Placement & Intern only)
• You will demonstrate typical Arcadian skills including Resilience, Creativity, Analytical Thinking and being a Team Player
• You will have excellent communication skills and the ability to use your technical knowledge to influence and consult stakeholders.
• Willing to travel and stay away from homewhen required (where possible we embrace virtual working)
• Comfortable with Site based working, when required for projects

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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