Graduate Geotechnical Engineer | Graduate Geo-environmental Engineer - Cambridge - 2025

Stantec Consulting International Ltd.; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Stantec Consulting International Ltd. is seeking a Graduate Geotechnical or Geo-environmental Engineer to join their team in Cambridge as part of their 2025 Graduate Programme. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on various infrastructure projects while developing technical skills in a supportive and collaborative environment. Graduates will benefit from strong support and guidance from experienced staff, ensuring thorough professional development.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Private medical insurance

Holiday buy and sell options

Group income protection

Life assurance

Professional progression plan

Early Careers peer group support

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field is required.
• Key skills in collaboration, adaptability, and problem-solving needed.
• Graduates expected to manage multiple tasks and engage in teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Conduct ground investigations and assess geological data.
• Support Environmental Impact Assessments and deliver remediation strategies.
• Collaborate in a multidisciplinary team on engineering projects.

Skills

Collaboration

Adaptability

Planning

Ownership

Multi-tasking

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Geology, Engineering Geology, Contaminated Land, Environmental Sciences or a related field

Job description

With every community, Stantec redefines what’s possible.

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 aGraduate Geotechnical Engineer or Graduate Geo-environmental Engineerfor ourInfrastructureteamto be based in Cambridge, joining our 2025 Graduate Programme.

As a Stantec graduate, you will collaborate with your team and wider cohort, developing your expertise within an exciting and creative interdisciplinary environment.

Our small, close-knit team of geo professionals is based in a wider multidisciplinary office and is part of a national ground engineering team. You will benefit from strong support from both office and technical colleagues, as well as significant guidance from senior staff within our open and collaborative culture.

Our Cambridge office boasts a diverse range of disciplines within the Infrastructure & Buildings engineering and design team, fostering close collaboration on numerous projects. Joining our established ground assessment team offers an excellent opportunity to develop your skills in analyzing geological, geo-environmental, and geotechnical data; delivering ground investigations; supporting Environmental Impact Assessments; assessing foundations, slope stability, and earthworks; creating ground models; conducting contaminated land risk assessments; developing remediation strategies; monitoring fieldworks; designing and reporting on foundations, retaining walls, soil slope stability, earthworks, and rock slope stabilization; utilizing numerical analysis software; and collaborating with other technical experts on multidisciplinary design and construction projects.

You will join a supportive and successful team with exciting career opportunities, gain great client exposure and professional development and work in an innovative and collaborative environment.

Take a look at our Groundworks service line:-Ground Engineering (stantec.com) and review the career journey of our Stantec graduates here:-Stantec | Career Stories

About you:

At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience.Along with a Bachelor’s degree inGeology, Engineering Geology, Contaminated Land, Environmental Sciences or a related field,and a keen interest in the environmental/geotechnicalfield, 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!

#StantecNextGen #StantecCareers #UKIGraduate