Summer Intern - Civil Engineering - Energy, Water & Resources - Southampton

Arup; Southampton; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 20,000; Full time

Job summary

Arup in Southampton invites you to join our Civil Engineering team as a Summer Intern for 6-12 weeks. You'll work on real projects under the guidance of experienced engineers, contributing to energy, water and resources schemes, and gaining practical exposure across utilities, drainage and transport tasks.

From day one you'll participate in learning sessions, site visits, and network-building activities designed to accelerate your professional development and help you see things differently.

Qualifications

• 6–12 week internship program starting in the summer.
• Work on real-life projects alongside professionals.
• Participate in learning sessions and site visits.

Responsibilities

• Carry out assessment, analysis, and design tasks supporting reports and calculations.
• Collaborate with Arup colleagues across disciplines.
• Engage with landscape architects, environmental specialists, and planners.
• Attend meetings with clients and stakeholders, including site visits.
• Assist in survey information gathering and constraints analysis.
• Develop and appraise engineering options and business cases.
• Contribute to sustainability reviews and low/zero carbon studies.

Job description

Summer Intern - Civil Engineering- Energy Water and Resources - Southampton

See it differently

You see the world through a unique lens and that’s exactly what we need. We embrace how you see things differently – it’s essential for creating a sustainable future.
Arup is a global consultancy with advisory and technical expertise across more than 150 disciplines. We guide, plan and design the future of the built environment. Globally, each year we recruit hundreds of graduates and students who help us see things differently and solve the most complex challenges facing our clients, climate and communities.
The Civil Engineering team apply their expertise of utilities, drainage, highways and earthworks to design and deliver resilient infrastructure across energy, water, transport and other sectors. From flood defences and low‑carbon energy systems to sustainable urban environments, we combine technical expertise and creativity to solve complex challenges and shape a built environment that supports communities and a low carbon future.

The Opportunity

On this 6-12 week Internship you'll work alongside skilled professionals and from day one you will be working on real life meaningful projects - adding 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 will be 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 as possible back into our other programmes, be that another internship or potential graduate position. This placement is the stepping-stone to your future. Dedicated to sustainable development, Arup is a collective of designers, consultants and experts working globally. Founded to be humane and excellent, we collaborate with our clients and partners using imagination, technology, and rigour to shape a better world.

Arup Civil Engineering teams thrive on the diversity of our work. Projects undertaken by our teams include highway and public realm design, masterplanning, sustainable urban drainage, flood risk and alleviation, flooding and coastal risk management schemes, river restoration, utilities co-ordination, water and wastewater treatment and infrastructure, rail and energy related projects (including offshore wind, tidal, hydrogen and solar projects). We often play a key role in large-scale, multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects, involved from the initial concept stage through to detailed design and construction for both public and private sector clients.

Our Industrial Placement Engineers work in diverse roles such as river and coastal and maritime engineering, dams and reservoirs, sustainable urban drainage, green infrastructure, tunnels, brownfield regeneration, site development, water or wastewater infrastructure and treatment, offshore wind structural and geotechnical design, renewables engineering advisory including floating offshore wind, tidal and hydrogen projects.

Energy, collaboration, and effective communication are fundamental to our success. Our teams often act as integrators or facilitators, working closely with internal specialists and external bodies, including clients, contractors, and statutory approval organisations.

Our teams deliver sustainable design services that address society's need to respond to the climate emergency. We help our clients to avoid and reduce carbon emissions, manage climate risk, improve natural capital, and enhance the resilience of their infrastructure to improve communities and their environment through efficient, well planned and considerate design.

You will work with a broad range of clients, such as government and transport organisations, the Environment Agency, energy companies and developers, local authorities, contractors, and water companies, as well as private developers. You will also have the opportunity to undertake site visits and surveys, meet with clients and stakeholders, and collaborate with others both within and outside of Arup.

In the Civil Engineering team, typical day-to-day tasks may include:

• Carrying out assessment, analysis, and design, supporting the preparation of design reports, drawings, calculations, and specifications.
• Collaborating with Arup colleagues in other disciplines
• Working with landscape architects, environmental specialists, and planners.
• Involvement in meetings with clients, local authorities, and other stakeholders, including site visits.
• Specifying and analysing survey information and constraints for solution development.
• Developing and appraising options and supporting the production of engineering solutions and business cases.
• Partaking in sustainability reviews, producing low/zero carbon strategies, embodied carbon calculations, carbon implementation plans, materials assessments, sustainability related studies, reporting and design.
• Undertaking feasibility studies,