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Apprentice - Water Civil Engineering / Multiple locations (Summer - Autumn 2025 starts), Exeter
Client: AECOM
Location: Exeter, United Kingdom
Job Category: Technical
EU work permit required: Yes
Job Reference: REF36220W
Job Views: 46
Posted: 03.03.2025
Job Description:
Company Description
Work with Us. Change the World. 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.
Start here. Grow here.
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 Responsibilities:
1. Undertake technical and feasibility studies to appraise the practicability of solutions in aspects such as potable water, foul water, surface water and attenuation requirements, including appropriate calculations.
2. Produce designs of water infrastructure such as pump systems and pipe networks with attention to safety in design, such as creating a Designer’s Risk Assessment document.
3. Produce technical engineering drawings including plans, sections and typical details.
4. Undertake numerical analysis including the use of computer-based programmes to assist with the study of potable, surface and wastewater systems.
5. Keep up-to-date with developments in regulatory legislation and guidelines that may affect design work.
6. Work with other team members to undertake technical work, site work, and project management.
7. Opportunities for site visits, to develop a wider understanding of how designs are implemented.
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.
On the Job Support and Learning:
When an apprentice starts at AECOM, we pair them with a senior member of the team who will guide and mentor them through their initial period working on live projects and business development tasks, to support with any technical queries. We also offer our apprentices the flexibility of working on a range of projects in the various service offerings and technical specialisms that our Practice delivers. This helps establish their areas of interest, and develops a firm sustainability grounding, that will allow our apprentice to choose the direction of their career.
Apprentice Development Programme:
In addition to your identified external training provision in Civil Engineering Technician (Level 3) (usually delivered via day release or in block terms) our Apprentice ADVANCE programme is designed to help you build your career in AECOM. You will attend a number of instructor-led training sessions where you will meet and hear from people across the business and take part in a series of interactive activities to equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in your role. We will provide you with all the support and tools you need to achieve your professional development ambitions, including Chartership with the relevant international professional institution.
Qualifications:
This position is ideally suited to school leavers at GCSE or A-Level (or equivalent) who can demonstrate the following:
1. Minimum of 5 GCSE’s (or equivalent) at grade ‘C/4’ or above, including Mathematics & English.
2. Three A-Levels (or equivalent such as a BTEC Level 3 in Civil Engineering) including Maths and a physical science at grade 'C' or above - essential for level 6 Degree Apprenticeship.
3. Some work experience or shadowing in an engineering environment would be an advantage.
4. Demonstrate an interest and a desire to pursue a career in Traffic Engineering.
5. Show an aptitude towards software-based engineering and drawing e.g. Computer Aided Design (CAD) and other similar 3D software.
6. Commitment to continued education and improvement through on-the-job learning and training opportunities.
7. Creative, practical, adaptable and enthusiastic.
8. Ability to demonstrate attention to detail.
9. Ability to think in a methodical way to design, plan and organize parts of projects.
10. English language proficient, holding excellent communication skills to present information in speech, drawings and reports.
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.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. 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. We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address [emailprotected] if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
ReqID: REF36220W
Business Line: Construction Management
Business Group: DCS
Strategic Business Unit: Europe & India
Career Area: Engineering
Work Location Model: Hybrid
Legal Entity: AECOM Infrastructure and Environment UK Limited
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