Apprentice Buyer

Volker Wessels UK is a market leading contracting group of five closely linked businesses.

We provide integrated and ground‑breaking solutions for the civil engineering and construction sectors, with specialisms in rail, highways, airports, marine, defence, energy, water, and environmental infrastructure.

Ready to kick‑start your career in Procurement? Curious about how buying shapes major construction projects? This is your chance to dive in.

Join our team here at Volker Wessels

We are a multi-disciplinary Construction and Civil Engineering company, delivering an array of projects across Rail, Aviation, Building and Highways in the UK. Technology is at the forefront of our organisation.

We are recruiting for an Apprentice Trainee Buyer to join our Group Procurement team.

Please note that this role is based onsite at our Hoddesdon head office (with some travel as required).

As an Apprentice Buyer, you’ll work towards a recognised Procurement qualification (CIPS) while gaining hands‑on experience across our procurement functions. You’ll support the Group Procurement Buyer and wider team with day‑to‑day activities, including:

• Liaising with site teams, promoting our preferred supply chain agreements
• Requesting and analysing quotations and historical spend data
• Preparing management reports and information
• Supporting other procurement teams across VWUK through short-term secondments, including more transactional procurement, raising orders etc
• Visiting sites or suppliers when needed, building collaborative relationships
• Learning how our plant hire desk operates in Birmingham

You’ll be part of weekly team meetings, sharing wins, tackling challenges, and helping us hit — and exceed — our annual targets.

• Applicants will ideally have achieved A-level or equivalent including good GCSE Math’s and English grades
• We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic individual, meticulous with strong attention to detail, as well as collaborative with a real passion for Procurement, ready to start their career in construction.
• You’ll have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, be proactive, an innovator and a team worker.

If you’re motivated, eager to learn, and excited by the idea of shaping the supply chain behind major UK infrastructure, we’d love to hear from you.

If your past experience doesn’t match perfectly with every requirement of the job description, we still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for us.

Volker Wessels UK operate through five separate, but complementary businesses, working in collaboration and using our specialist skills to deliver an integrated service for our clients. At any one time, our people are working on our sites or in our offices, for around 250 projects across the UK. Everyday we overcome challenges, fulfilling our commitments, no matter what. That’s what our business is about, that’s how our people find satisfaction in their jobs.

We offer competitive rewards and benefits, recognising the value we place on our employees.

We offer a range of benefits, including:

• Competitive salary
• Competitive annual leave and an additional day off on your birthday
• Option to buy additional annual leave
• Private medical care
• Pension
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Shopping and restaurants vouchers, rewards, and discounts
• Training and development opportunities-comprehensive skills-based training
• Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity benefits
• Employee Assistance programme
• Mental health, physical health, and financial support
• 24/7 Virtual GP service

We believe in pushing boundaries in the pursuit of fairness, inclusion and respect. So, our teams can be comfortable that, whatever their background, Volker Wessels UK is a place where they can be themselves and thrive.

If you need support with your application, please contact us at

Note for Recruitment Agencies:

Our preference is to hire directly, and we will reach out to our Preferred Supplier List (PSL) agencies if this particular role qualifies for release.

We kindly request that you refrain from sending speculative CVs. In the event of speculative CV submissions, no fees will be applicable, and we kindly ask that all inquiries to be directed to

Volker Wessels UK is committed to maintaining healthy, safe and productive working conditions for its entire staff and therefore a drugs & alcohol screening is mandatory for all.