Transport Planning Intern (Reading)

Jacob; Reading; On-site; GBP 17,000 - 21,000; Full time

Job summary

Jacobs Engineering Group offers a Summer Internship Programme in Transport Planning and Mobility Solutions. The eight-week placement runs from 28 June 2027 to 20 August 2027, across Jacobs hub offices in the UK.

You’ll work with world-class professionals, applying classroom skills to real transport challenges and gaining valuable mentoring from programme champions. You’ll connect with interns from multiple disciplines, expand your professional network, and contribute to innovative mobility

Qualifications

• On track to complete a degree in Transport Planning, Mathematics/Statistics, Urban Planning, Data/Computer Science, Economics, Physics, Natural Sciences or Civil Engineering in 2028.
• A flexible and innovative self-starter who’s passionate about developing new skills.
• Enthusiasm and curiosity to apply your skills to solve real-world problems.
• Empathy and listening skills to help you truly understand our clients’ requirements.
• A well-rounded individual with diverse experiences.

Responsibilities

• Join the Transport Planning and Mobility Solutions team within Cities & Places and Major Programmes.
• Support transport planning across modes, from policy through modelling to active travel.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers and project managers on live projects.
• Learn and apply design solutions for transport decarbonisation and public transport schemes.

Skills

Self-starter

Enthusiasm

Empathy

Active listening

Story & experience

Education

Degree in Transport Planning, Math/Stats, Urban Planning, Data/CS, Economics, Physics, Natural Sciences or Civil Eng

Penultimate year student, finishing degree in 2028

Full right to work in the UK

Job description

At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good.

Your impact

Are you ready to launch your career? Our Summer Internship Programme offers you the chance to gain real-world experience in your chosen discipline.

For approximately eight weeks in the summer, you’ll work in one of our hub office locations across the UK or Ireland. Here, you’ll collaborate with world-class professionals in a dynamic environment, applying the skills you’ve honed in the classroom to real business challenges.

In this fast-paced, professional setting, you’ll gain invaluable experience that will set you apart in your future career. Throughout the programme, you’ll receive personalised guidance from mentors, people leaders and Programme Champions. They’re all here to help you make the most of your experience.

You’ll also have plenty of opportunities to connect with colleagues and fellow interns from different disciplines, broadening your professional network and gaining insights from across the business.

Our goal is to ensure that your time with Jacobs leaves you with a positive, impactful learning experience.

About the opportunity

The Transport Planner Intern will join the Transport Planning and Mobility Solutions team which is part of our Cities & Places and Major Programmes business unit. We help create thriving places across different scales: from regions to cities, neighbourhoods to sites, by offering an integrated design approach. Our business unit brings together transport planners, engineers, architects, designers, surveyors, urban designers and project managers to provide collaborative and coordinated value design solutions for our clients both nationally and internationally.

Our team skillsets cover the full remit of transport planning across all modes; from high level policy and strategy advice through transport modelling/appraisal to active travel, streets design, traffic engineering and junction design. We are interested in hearing from candidates who are keen to develop a rounded set of skills, as well as those who have more specialised interests including but not limited to traffic engineering, active travel scheme design and transformational placemaking, transport decarbonisation, traffic management solutions or public transport schemes for example.

Here's what you'll need

• On track to complete a degree in Transport Planning, Mathematics/Statistics, Urban Planning, Data/Computer Science, Economics, Physics, Natural Sciences or Civil Engineering in 2028.
• A flexible and innovative self-starter who’s passionate about developing new skills.
• Enthusiasm and curiosity to apply your skills to solve real-world problems.
• Empathy and listening skills to help you truly understand our clients’ requirements.
• A well-rounded individual - have you worked in a bar? Been captain of a sports team or volunteered for a charity? Tell us - we’re looking for people with interesting stories and experiences!
• You must be available to join the 8-week programme starting 28 th June 2027 – 20 th August 2027.
• You must have the full right to work in the UK.
• You need to be a penultimate year student, finishing your degree in 2028.

Selection Process

• Step 1: Apply Online
• Step 3: Interview

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With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we’ve gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means and space to maximize your potential. You’ll uncover flexible working arrangements, benefits, and opportunities, from well-being benefits to our global giving and volunteering program, to exploring new and inventive ways to help our clients make the world a better place. No matter what drives you, you’ll discover how you can cultivate, nurture, and achieve your goals – all at a single global company. Find out more about life at Jacobs .

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