Graduate Civil Engineering Career Path: Water

Position: 2026 Graduate Civil Engineering Career Path: Water

Overview

Engineer a Better Tomorrow – For People, Planet, and Progress. At Mott Mac Donald, we’re not just designing infrastructure—we’re shaping the future of water. As a wholly employee-owned company, we focus on delivering social outcomes, empowering our people, and protecting the communities and environments we serve.

As a Graduate Civil Engineer, you’ll join one of our specialist teams—Water Engineering or Dams & Reservoirs—each playing a vital role in solving complex challenges and delivering sustainable solutions that improve lives and safeguard the environment.

What You’ll Do

Water Engineering – Designing Resilient Infrastructure

• Design pipelines, water and wastewater treatment facilities through feasibility, outline, and detailed stages.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver integrated, sustainable solutions.
• Support projects from planning and modelling to construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Use digital tools to enhance design quality and efficiency.
• Grow your technical and project management skills through mentoring and training.

Dams & Reservoirs – Protecting Communities and Resources

• Develop conceptual, preliminary, and detailed designs for dams, spillways, intakes, and drawdown facilities.
• Undertake hydraulic and structural analyses, contributing to flood studies and emergency planning.
• Attend site inspections and monitoring activities for hands-on experience.
• Prepare drawings, reports, and specifications that shape real-world outcomes.
• Gain exposure to project, commercial, and client management.

Why These Roles Matter

• Empowering Growth: structured training, mentoring, and real-world experience.
• Celebrating Achievements: contributions recognised—individually and as part of a team.
• Inclusive Culture: diversity valued; everyone respected.
• Wellbeing First: flexible working, mental health support, and a caring environment.
• Societal Impact: work helps deliver essential services, protect the environment, and build climate resilience.

Candidate Specification

We are looking for committed and motivated graduates with a genuine passion and a desire to make a difference in the world. To be eligible for this opportunity, you will have less than 12 months’ relevant experience (excluding placements) and hold a minimum of a bachelor’s degree (obtained no earlier than 2024) or be expected to achieve a degree in civil engineering.

In your application, demonstrate genuine interest in the opportunity and joining Mott Mac Donald by highlighting relevant experience or interests such as modules studied, previous work experience, or research about our company, values, and projects.

We personally review every completed application form; this part of our selection process is human-led. We do not use AI tools at this stage and expect you not to either. Answer each application question with authenticity to shape your own story as a graduate.

About Your Development

A graduate position should be more than just a job. We offer a three-year early careers soft skills development programme – Accelerating your Future – with a mentor to guide your professional training needs. You’ll have the opportunity to make a difference and learn about Our Purpose and the impact we can make.

• Biannual salary reviews for the first three years of your career.
• A competitive salary aligned with industry standards.
• Contributory pension up to 7% of your salary.
• A flexible benefits scheme to suit individual needs.

Our Social Side

Being part of Mott Mac Donald includes a range of social and professional activities, networking opportunities, and access to discounts on cinema tickets, travel, fashion, and more as part of our company benefits.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We place equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business, promoting fair employment procedures and an inclusive environment where everyone has the opportunity to contribute.

Agile Working

We embrace agility, flexibility and trust, and support choosing how you work to meet client, team and personal commitments.

About Mott Mac Donald

We’re a global engineering, management and development consultancy. Our purpose is to improve society by focusing on social outcomes, excellence and digital innovation, and by respecting each person’s differences.

Our values are: progress, respect, integrity, drive, excellence.

Location and Recruitment Details

Location(s):
Cambridge, Edinburgh, Belfast, Leeds, Bristol, Aberdeen, Brighton, Reading, Inverness, Glasgow, Cardiff, Newcastle, Manchester. Contract Type:
Permanent. Work Pattern:
Full Time. Market:
Water. Discipline:
Civil. Job . Recruiter Contact: earlyca

Notes:
Referrals increase your chances of interviewing.

Note on Expiry

This description does not indicate a closed role; no explicit expiry terms are provided here.

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