Building Surveying Placement Scheme

Building Surveying Placement Scheme 2026

Birmingham, Nottingham, London, Epsom, Bristol, Cardiff

We are Atkins

Réalis, a world‑class engineering services and nuclear organization. When you join us, you'll help create world‑class sustainable solutions that connect people, data, and technology. We're transforming infrastructure and energy systems, growing partnerships with our clients, and bringing the most complex projects across the globe to life.

Our global team of 36,000+ employees speak over 70 languages and represent 130 nationalities across six continents. Our work covers a variety of sectors, including transportation, infrastructure, environment, water, energy, defence, technology and aerospace.

Join our Placement Scheme where you'll be trusted with complex work and supported by your peers, line managers and senior leaders. Through a combination of on‑the‑job learning and practical skills development within your chosen role, you’ll work on real projects from day one that offer scale and variety, collaborating with others and creating meaningful impact on the world around us.

Reaching your full potential means being able to bring your whole self to work and feeling like you belong. Find out more about our global programme Different makes a difference .

You could join the following business areas:

Help us reimagine our places and spaces, from transport hubs to university campuses, industrial facilities, and critical flood defence schemes - we touch every aspect of social and economic environments. The type of work will include creating specialist civils drawings, detailed tasks/design and client‑facing roles on some of the industry's most complex civil engineering projects.

You'll be sharpening your skills on the latest digital technologies while pressing towards a carbon‑neutral future.

Industrial placement locations:Epsom, London
Summer placement locations: Epsom, London

Join the team that delivers project and programme management consultancy across the world. We build strong relationships by understanding the challenges our clients face, sharing their vision and helping them transform potential into reality. Our cutting‑edge independent advice and guidance enables our clients to turn bold ideas into reality and deliver their most important projects and programmes. You could work on large prestigious infrastructure projects with clients including TfL, Gatwick Airport and Thames Water, or focus on public building projects ranging from a primary school extension to a medieval fortress.

We'll trust you to own your projects while supporting you to develop your skills and confidence.

Industrial placement locations: Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, London, Nottingham

• A passion for working in a consultancy environment
• Championing a culture where everyone belongs
• A desire to work collaboratively with a curious approach, challenging yourself to find new solutions
• Enthusiasm and drive to develop your skillset and seek out development opportunities within a supportive team
• Motivation to achieve professional accreditation (where applicable)
• Comfortable to embrace agile ways of working and learning new technologies
• Commitment to spend a minimum of three days a week in the office or on client site (project dependent). Being together in person helps us build stronger relationships, collaborate more effectively, and accelerate your learning and development.

Join our vibrant early careers community, with plenty of brilliant opportunities; from skill‑building to social events, charity challenges, social clubs, and much more. Join any of our employee networks for social interaction, peer support and personal development.

We aim to promote a workplace which allows our people to perform at their best. As well as ensuring you’re rewarded for your efforts, we have a variety of initiatives to create a healthy workplace and support your well‑being including access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing you with immediate and confidential help for any work, health or life…