Summer Placements - Infrastructure Investment & Economics Advisory

2026 Summer Placements - Infrastructure Investment & Economics Advisory

London, United Kingdom

Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

What if you could shape a career as unique as you?

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.

Led by technical specialists with experience of infrastructure funding and transactions and backed by WSP’s engineering and science‑based in‑depth technical insight, our Infrastructure Investment and Economics Advisory team brings that clarity through technical assurance on investment and divestment in complex infrastructure, property, core+ sectors and economic development projects. We deliver this technical, due diligence and economic expertise for our clients to help them make informed decisions, creating, protecting and unlocking value at every stage of the investment cycle, from acquisition, and through operations to divestment.

Our clients include local and national government, institutional investors, asset managers, private equity firms, and industrials, helping them identify and mitigate risk, support long‑term asset performance, and align global portfolios and development projects with evolving international, national and local stakeholders, economic trends, and regulatory expectations.

Join us for a Summer Placement at WSP and you’ll work alongside leading engineering, advisory and science professionals on real projects. You’ll put your academic knowledge into practice, gain hands on experience, and explore a variety of career path, helping you make confident decisions about your future.

As a summer placement student within this team, you will have the chance to be exposed to tasks such as:

• Support teams on live projects across the investment lifecycle, including greenfield investments, economic growth plans for regions and cities, lending, acquisitions, asset management and divestments. You will gain exposure to how technical, commercial and ESG considerations are brought together to inform public and private investment decision‑making.
• Assist with technical and commercial research tasks on due diligence activities, including desktop reviews of technical, environmental and operational information, benchmarking asset performance, and helping to identify key risks and opportunities for investors.
• Contribute to economic focused market and sector research across infrastructure and core+ sectors, such as transport, energy, utilities, social infrastructure and the built environment. This may include reviewing industry reports, regulatory frameworks, policy, and emerging trends (e.g. decarbonisation, resilience, digitalisation) and summarising insights for internal and client use.
• Support the development of client deliverables, including technical notes, presentations and sections of due diligence reports, helping to clearly communicate complex technical issues in a concise and investor‑focused way.
• Support in research on economic growth plans and development projects for local and regional bodies, aiming to encourage growth, development and prosperity across some of the UK key cities and towns.
• Support business development activities, including assisting with the preparation of marketing materials, credentials and bid submissions. This may involve researching client bodies and market context, helping to draft proposal content, and contributing to presentations that support winning new work.
• Work alongside engineers, economists, accountants and sustainability specialists across WSP, gaining an understanding of how multidisciplinary technical expertise is applied in an investment and advisory context.
• Participate in internal team meetings, knowledge‑sharing sessions and training, building an understanding of infrastructure funding, transactions and the role of technical assurance in investment decisions.
• Develop core consulting skills, including problem…