Graduate Civil Engineer - Dams & Hydropower

About Stantec

Stantec is a top tier global consultancy, the Stantec community unites approximately 26,000 employees working in over 400 locations across 6 continents.

We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. With around 3,000 people working in integrated regional teams across the UK & Ireland. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our client’s vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insight.

We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.

The Opportunity

Redefine your personal best.

Have you ever thought about joining a Graduate Development Programme where you are part of a global community of 26,000 driven, passionate, and smart professionals?

Our accredited Professional Development Programme sets the standard for training and progression. You’ll have a chance to grow and develop as a future leader and innovator at one of the world’s most sustainable corporations that are consistently at the forefront of planning, design and delivery of infrastructure and development in the UK. 

Start your journey with us, a top-tier global consultancy. Redefine your personal best.

Since 1920, Stantec has been a leader in the dams and hydropower sector, and this growing market requires that we continue recruiting and training talented and engaged professionals.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Graduate Civil Engineer to join our Water & Renewable Energy team based in High Wycombe, who are made up of apprentices, graduates, and experienced professionals. You will be involved in significant projects from day one both locally and nationally within the private and public sector.

Day-to-day, you’ll be working with your team, to provide dam safety assessments, rehabilitation design of existing dams, as well as designing new water and hydropower dams, including pumped storage schemes.

About you:

As an individual, you’ll be looking to develop a career in the renewable energy sector in addition to:

• A bachelor’s degree in Civil, Environmental or Water Resources Engineering or a master's in Hydraulics/water resource engineering. 
• Eligible to live and work in the UK at the time you start employment

Desired but not essential:

• some professional or academic experience with CFD modelling of hydraulic structures using software like Flow-3D, ANSYS, OpenFoam etc. 

Benefits

• We offer a number of other leisure and lifestyle benefit options (from buying additional holiday to travel insurance and bikes) to help you tailor your benefits to your personal needs.
• Ensuring you have a pension in place is a very important part of planning for the future. We offer tax efficient ways of saving towards your retirement plan with pension schemes that provide a wide variety of investment options.
• We want all our employees to be happy, healthy and engaged at work. We have a number of campaigns that run throughout the year with the main objective being to improve the health, wellbeing and resilience of our employees. Information on local activities and initiatives is also available and regularly updated. 

We offer multiple start dates throughout next summer in June, July, August and September.

Please note: we recruit on an ongoing basis and therefore may close this role before the stated closing date so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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