Graduate Programme - Transport & Infrastructure - Roads

Job Description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects, and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

We are looking for graduates for our Roads team, who have a flexible approach and an appetite to learn in a leading engineering and professional advisory services consultancy. We want you to enjoy working in a collaborative environment where you can apply your skills working for a diverse range of clients and projects.

• Roads Infrastructure Design:
  Truro, Exeter, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Warrington, Cambridge, Basingstoke, Newcastle, Carlisle, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Guildford or Limerick.

Roads are a fundamental component of the built environment and WSP’s unparalleled experience in Roads and Highways helps craft projects for tomorrow’s needs by rethinking the way commuters travel across the UK and Ireland. Our roads design and technical assurance skills, together with our integrated behaviours, drive excellence in complex multi‑disciplinary projects and frameworks at regional and national levels. As a Graduate Engineer in the Roads team, you would be helping to deliver National and Regional Infrastructure Frameworks to major projects and local improvements including a wide variety of active travel walking and cycling schemes.

We work in collaboration with many clients on both a local and national level and our work covers a range of activities at all stages of infrastructure delivery, for a wide range of public and private clients. We have a strong pipeline of rewarding work providing great opportunities for your professional development, including projects of national strategic importance.

• HS2
• Sizewell C
• Smart Motorways
• Dublin Metro Link
• NM20 Cork to Limerick
• A5 Western Transport Corridor

Our Graduate Engineers in the Roads Infrastructure Design team develop their design skills working on National transportation schemes, active travel schemes, public transport and rail interface projects, as well as Local Authority major schemes and minor improvement works. We have several design and build contracts with construction contractors and provide technical support to other parts of the WSP business. We play a key role in the development and delivery of sustainable design solutions supporting our ‘Future Ready®’ initiative and Net Zero objectives, providing community benefits.

• Designing and drafting of transport solutions
• Attending site visits and inspections
• Data analysis and reporting
• Project coordination
• Stakeholder communication
• Assisting senior engineers

Our two‑year Graduate Development programme is designed to support personal and professional development and growth through an engaging blended learning experience. The programme includes core business and professional skills training, career development workshops and resources, valuable networking opportunities, mentoring for professional registration and a breadth of on‑the‑job experience. We encourage you to achieve chartered status with relevant professional bodies such as the ICE, ensuring your development is a priority.

You will be fully supported through enrolment in a professional institution’s training agreement, guiding you towards chartered or incorporated status.

• You’ll have graduated with at least a 2:2 in a master’s or bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject for the role you are applying for.
• Candidates must complete the application form in full answering all specific questions. The application form and the skill enabler assessment are essential parts of the early career recruitment process.
• You’ll be looking to start work in either April or September 2026.
• You’ll have a passion for engineering.
• You’ll have an enthusiasm for creativity and a drive to solve problems.
• You’ll want to inspire us, sharing new ideas you have.

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Should you have the right qualifications for our positions, apply and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities we have available for our Graduate programme.

Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. Please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.