Civil Engineering Graduates Water Environment / Belfast (Summer 2025 starts)

Company Description

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of nearly 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

About Our Team:
Our water resources team delivers projects for several domestic and international private and public sector clients. You will be part of a local team that includes staff in the Cork, Dublin, Derry and Belfast offices, with a wide and experienced support network. Specific roles could include carrying out feasibility studies, detailed designs, site inspections and preparation of reports, contracts and technical specifications.

Projects will include work on Dams and Reservoirs, water supply systems and flood risk management projects. We can offer a diverse range of experience for candidates with a wide spectrum of interests and career goals. We offer a flexible hybrid working model. As a member of our team, you will enjoy a comprehensive benefits package with a range of flexible choices covering health, finance, lifestyle, well-being and more.

You will work alongside our experienced engineers as you develop these skills within a positive culture where learning and development is actively supported and promoted.

Here’s what you’ll do:

1. Design: working closely with your manager and peers in the design phase of projects. This will involve creating and modifying drawings using CAD software, producing calculations, and design tasks.
2. Project Management Support: assist in project-related tasks like research, data gathering, and preparing reports.
3. Field Visits: We will provide site visit opportunities to gain practical experience. This could involve conducting site surveys, inspections and shadowing experienced engineers carrying out supervision.
4. Collaboration & Communication: meetings with clients, contractors, and other professionals to discuss project requirements, progress, and challenges.

Enjoy the Perks.

At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Here is what you will get from us!
We support our graduates to pursue their professional development through professional organisations such as ICE or CIWEM. This is further complemented by AECOM’s Graduate Development programme, providing broader development and training and an opportunity to meet with other graduates.

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?
Here’s what we’re looking for:

1. BEng in Civil or Civil and Environmental Engineering Degree, with a 2:1 classification (or equivalent).
2. MEng in Civil or Civil and Environmental Engineering related MSc would be an advantage.
3. Water related modules would be an advantage.
4. Relevant work experience would be an advantage.
5. Enthusiastic, hard-working, technically proficient, with ambition and drive.
6. Basic computer skills essential (Word/Excel) and good report writing skills beneficial.
7. Willing and able to work towards professional qualifications such as ICE & CIWEM.
8. Demonstrable interest in water projects.
9. Capability to satisfy client and business expectations and be able to consider the wider financial and commercial implications of their actions.
10. Communicate effectively to internal and external clients, both verbally & in writing.
11. Structure & prioritise work effectively through close cooperation with the team as a whole.
12. Ability to work independently without losing initiative & focus.

Additional Information

About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

ReqID: REF36270M
Business Line: Water
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India
Career Area: Engineering
Work Location Model: Hybrid
Legal Entity: AECOM Infrastructure and Environment UK Limited