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Graduate Civil Engineer - Rivers (Peterborough) Are you ready to start your career in an inclusive, flexible, and dynamic work environment?

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Join the Jacobs Graduate Development Programme (GDP) and have a meaningful, positive impact on our environments, communities, and societies worldwide. As a Jacobs Graduate you will be part of a larger network of talent who are Challenging Today and Reinventing Tomorrow.

What we do at Jacobs

Our business focuses on providing solutions to future challenges such as climate change, the need for renewable energy, low carbon economies, transportation, and material resource and waste management. While we shape some of the very largest and most challenging landmark projects in the UK, we also deliver local projects that protect communities.

What will you get?

Our Graduate Development Programme is a structured two-year scheme where we provide the framework, mentoring and experiences to help you maximise your skills and ambitions. On joining our scheme in September 2025, you'll rapidly gain knowledge of how our company works and the impact that you can have to help us move towards a more connected and sustainable world.

About the opportunity

Our Water and Environment Business Unit provides a focus for advising our clients on River Engineering and Flood Risk Management solutions including flood defence structures, weirs, gates, sluices, flood storage reservoirs, natural flood management, habitat creation, hydrometric gauging facilities and fish passes. Our integrated Water Catchment Management team comprises in excess of 400 staff based in the UK and Europe, but with reach into the Middle East, Australasia and America.The Water Catchment Management team has a diverse portfolio of projects with a key focus on flood risk management for the Environment Agency and other Local Authorities. The team work across sectors in integrated catchment management to deliver sustainable environmental solutions.

We are seeking a Graduate Civil Engineer in Peterborough who is looking to begin their career in a world-class leading company with excellent career prospects. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, you will be providing innovative and sustainable solutions for clients such as Water Companies, the Environment Agency & SEPA as well as less obvious clients like Airports.

Your workload will be varied, you could be : -

• Designing a Sustainable Drainage System for a new development
• Assessing and designing options for managing flood risk and adapting to climate change
• Assessing the safety of infrastructure on rivers
• Designing and supervising the construction and operation of nationally important flood defence assets
• Contributing to the determination of budgets for the next five years of investment in the Water Industry

Our Graduates are exposed to a wide range of projects and we will support you to grow and develop into the areas that you find interesting. Whatever you decide to do, our friendly teams will be on hand to help you along the way.

Training programmes accredited by UK professional bodies to support you in ultimately achieving Chartered status.

Selection Process

What else we provide

We want you to bring your whole, authentic self to Jacobs.

Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit [2] www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.

If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please [3] contact the team.

Your application experience is important to us and we're keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and if you need more from us before deciding to join Jacobs then [4] please let us know.

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