Graduate Programme - Water - Asset Design

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 Asset Design 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.

We are recruiting for Graduates in the following services and locations:

• EICA (Electrical Engineering): London, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Glasgow or Brighton
• Civils: London, Brighton, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool or Glasgow
• Asset Management: Belfast, London, Birmingham or Liverpool

A little bit more about your role and the team…

Our Asset Design team provides comprehensive design and construction support services across civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and process engineering. We work from feasibility and optioneering through to detailed design and commissioning.

By challenging assumptions and refining options, we help clients make risk-based decisions that champion no-build and low-build solutions. Our skilled multi-disciplinary design teams cover process, civil, mechanical, and electrical instrumentation, and energy.

Graduates are likely to be involved in a diverse range of projects across the UK water sector, supporting major clients such as:

• Thames Water/Costain
• Northumbrian Water
• Britannia Metals
• Severn Trent Water
• Southwest Water
• Galliford Try
• Yorkshire Water/Tillbury Douglas
• Irish Water
• Southern Water
• Keir
• Nutrient Removal schemes (to help meet tighter environmental standards)
• Clean Water Projects (to ensure safe and resilient supplies)
• Strategic programmes reducing reliance on groundwater abstraction

Our Asset Design teams include:

Working as a Graduate in EICA (Electrical) will provide you with the opportunity to learn design engineering skills in electrical engineering or electrical and instrumentation, control and automation within the growing water industry. Graduates will work in multi-disciplinary design teams which will allow them to gain an appreciation of other design disciplines such as civil and chemical engineering.

Graduate in the EICA team will have the opportunity to work on water, wastewater, pumping station and industrial projects.

Day-to-day activities could include:

• Working alongside and learning from experienced discipline mentors.
• Producing single line diagrams, load schedules, I/O schedules, Instrument schedules and MCC data sheets (EICA).
• Producing pump calculations and pump selection, isometric drawings, mechanical GA's equipment sizing and selection (mechanical).
• Attending site visits/site surveys (both mechanical and EICA).
• Learning 3D CAD design skills (both mechanical and EICA).
• Learning cable sizing and discrimination software tools (EICA).
• Learning hydraulic calculation and the use of software tools (mechanical).

The water industry is an exciting place to work currently, with more investment than ever in ageing assets and pollution prevention solutions. We are looking for Engineering Graduates of all disciplines with lots of energy and passion for problem solving, working closely within a team to come up with new ideas and solutions to the Industries challenges. This can be either traditional engineering solutions, green solutions or a combination of both.

Our team are well placed to make a big impact on the projects that are due to be delivered over the next 5 to 10 years, in both water and wastewater treatment and networks.

Day-to-day activities could include:

• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary design team to problem solve and find solutions to water and wastewater project challenges
• Use of digital software to support in problem solving and reporting findings
• Production of 3D models of solutions…