Build Your Future. Lead the Industry.

Join a 1,500-strong, family-built contractor delivering complex interiors and façades at scale. Our Graduate Scheme is your launchpad into a high-impact career, where you’ll learn on live projects, develop commercial expertise and design experience, and step onto a fast-track leadership path with real responsibility from day one.

Unlike traditional schemes that confine you to one department, ours immerses you in every stage of project delivery. You’ll gain hands-on experience in Design, while sharpening the people and relationship-building skills that define great leaders.

This all-round exposure gives you a genuine competitive edge, helping you progress faster, earn promotions sooner, and build the confidence to lead complex projects and teams with impact.

Programme at a glance

Surveying

• Gain commercial expertise and learn to drive project performance from the front line.
• Control labour costs and monitor productivity to maximise project efficiency.
• Value and negotiate contract variations and final accounts with confidence.
• Manage multiple live projects, balancing time, cost, and quality.
• Produce monthly commercial packs - performance insights, works-in-progress, and subcontractor analysis.
• Strengthen client relationships and oversee cash collection, ensuring healthy project delivery and profitability.

Capstone project (final months):

Deliver a business‑improvement project with measurable impact; present outcomes to the executive team.

Destinations after the programme

On completion of the Graduate Scheme, you’ll be ready to take on core roles in the company, with the skills and confidence to lead projects, manage teams, and drive commercial success. Graduates typically progress into higher responsibility roles, with clear routes toward Project Leadership & Commercial Management.

Armed with multi-disciplinary experience and strong professional networks, you’ll stand out as a well-rounded professional, ready to make an impact and accelerate your career.

Who you are

• 2:1 or above in quantity surveying/engineering degree
• People‑first communicator; analytical, adaptable and resilient
• AAA-BBB A levels or equivalent

What you’ll gain

• Professional pathway: support toward further qualification (where relevant)
• Digital toolkit: practical exposure to measurement, planning and reporting tools
• Mentoring & community: Director‑level mentor, rotation manager and graduate buddy; quarterly cohort events

Compensation & benefits

Competitive salary, benefits, travel reimbursement, professional training and exam support and access to Stanmore’s reward scheme.

When applying, please confirm your visa status.

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