Placement Civil Engineer - Year in Industry 2023 (London or Southwest)

Description and requirements

Placement civil engineer - Year in Industry 2023 (London or Southwest)

Get your career on track (or on motorways, building sites, bridges...) at Skanska.

We are looking for enthusiastic Commercial students to join our Year in Industry 2023 placement and help us shape the future within our Building operating unit in London or the Southwest.

The Opportunity

You will join the team which delivers buildings that improve communities and enhances lives across the UK. You will help build its success and reputation for delivering high quality projects in commercial and mixed-used developments across healthcare, custodial, education and defence sectors.

Our award-winning public-sector projects include Bath Spa University, 52 Lime Street, Bristol Schools, and the Royal London Hospitals to name a few. Our expertise in London has created a portfolio that includes some of the capital's iconic buildings, such as The Gherkin and Heron Tower

Skanska's Year in Industry placements are a great opportunity to put everything you are learning during your college studies or university qualifications and put this into action through on-the-job training.

They can help develop your practical and professional skills, clarify your career ambitions, and gain relevant experience on real-life business projects.

Location: You will join our London or Southwest (Gloucester/ Bristol) teams. Please specify your preferred location.

What you'll learn:

• Plan and produce methodologies for mobilising and setting up sections of work
• Utilise surveying skills to set out details for construction
• Work with subcontractors to ensure the timely preparation and implementation of Risk Assessments & Method Statements, Inspection Test Plans, Permits & Consents
• Site coordination and logistical planning to enable works to be carried out safely
• Identify the needs for temporary works and completing temporary work designs working with the temporary works team
• Maintain a high standard of Quality Control and Quality Assurance records, including managing Non-Conformance Reports and Early Warning Notices
• Produce accurate and detailed daily diaries for your work areas
• Work collaboratively with enabling teams, for example in Traffic Management, Earthworks, Utilities and Community Relations
• Complete environmental risk assessments for works and assist in managing works activities in an ecologically sensitive manner
• Site Setting out duties - Line and level
• Produce accurate and detailed daily diaries for your work areas

Who you are:

• Studying towards a Civil Engineering degree accredited by the ICE
• Have excellent communications skills and attention to detail
• Values driven and passionate about sustainability
• Enthusiastic about learning and developing new ways of thinking

Skanska, one of the world's leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.

Drawing on our Scandinavian heritage, we are green, innovative, and progressive. We bring together people and technology, as part of our objective to make construction a safer and more collaborative industry.

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation, and any other protected characteristic - we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

Application deadline: 31st December 2022

Video Interviews: February/March 2023

Programme start date: July - September 2023 - we can be flexible around your holiday dates

Get in touch with us for more information or apply today!

Equal opportunities

We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic - we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

Flexible working

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments

We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using emerging.talent@skanska.co.uk if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.