With us, there's always something interesting for you to get involved in.
Are you ready to be part of a well-respected team with a solid reputation in the design, engineering, and project management industry? Join our Placement Scheme, where you'll be trusted with complex work, receiving all levels of support from line managers to senior leaders.
While you grow in areas that excite you, we also encourage you to maintain a positive work-life balance. So, during our recruitment process, tell us what matters to you.
Speak to us about how we support wellbeing in and out of the office – including different ways to be flexible around work. Let's also talk about some of our recent pledges for Women's Equality and how we're Disability Confident and an Inclusive Employer.
With Atkins, you'll be in great company.
Join us as a placement student in our Rail Consulting practice and you’ll have the opportunity to shape rail travel both now and, in the future, working across projects such as East West Rail and HS2. We support massive industry change, from whole network upgrades, to decarbonisation and digital innovation.
You’ll develop an understanding of projects from multiple stakeholder points of view; we find the best solutions to the most complex challenges. You'll be involved with project management, designing, developing and implementing complex solutions that will influence our transport future.
Our skills span infrastructure, rail control systems, assurance, engineering, project management and systems engineering, and we support clients worldwide.
Our teams:
Rail Systems and Infrastructure
Summer placement locations: Derby, London
Safety Engineering and Assurance
Industrial placement locations: Birmingham, Derby, London
Project Management, Business Consulting & Advisory - Rolling Stock
Summer placement location: Derby
Specialist Engineering, Design & Analysis - Rolling Stock
Summer placement location: Derby
Within our Rail Consulting practice, we transform people's journeys and the movement of goods, whilst increasing the efficiency, sustainability and safety of our transport systems and cities worldwide.
We’re not all the same, and that’s our greatest strength. Different views and opinions enhance our ability to provide value-added performance and better services for our clients. That’s why we believe different, makes a difference.
Reaching your full potential means being able to bring your whole self to work and being respected for the different opinions, strengths and experience you bring.
Our placement scheme has been designed to give you an insight into what it’s like to work with us and the chance to explore where your own skills and interests lie.
Through a combination of on-the-job learning and practical skills development within your chosen role, you’ll work on real projects from day one that offer scale and variety collaborating with others and creating meaningful impact on the world around us. Whichever path you take, your future starts here.
We aim to promote a workplace which allows our people to perform at their best. So, as well as ensuring you’re rewarded for your efforts, we also have a variety of initiatives in place to create a healthy workplace and support your well-being to include:
In addition to the above, our top performing placement students (who’ve completed at least 8 weeks on placement with us) have the opportunity to be nominated onto our Graduate Development Programme.
Please click "Apply online now" below to register your details and start your application journey.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re able to support you to perform at your best at each stage of our recruitment process and can make adjustments to ensure this. So, whether you consider yourself to have a disability or not, or would simply like to know how we can support you better, please contact us confidentially on placements@atkinsglobal.com.
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