Civil Engineering Graduate Scheme

Job description

Kick start your Engineering career with us, helping us to improve Environment and Social outcomes in London and the UK.

What will you be doing?

As a graduate, your three-year development programme will be made up of up to six placement rotations. Our aim is to equip you with the range of skills and experience you need for your successful career. We understand that everyone’s career and ambitions are different, so every graduate’s journey is unique.

Your work could span multiple transport modes, working in teams from across TfL with customers, local government, suppliers, consultants and contractors to deliver city-defining programmes. You will enable reliable operation of one of the world's leading transport networks and shape London’s future transport network.

The placements our Civil Engineering Graduate Engineers are currently working on include:

• Piccadilly Line Upgrade – Working on the civil infrastructure upgrades and project engineering needed to support the introduction of a a new fleet of air-cooled modern trains for the Piccadilly Line.
• Elephant & Castle redevelopment – interface with the redevelopment of Elephant & Castle shopping centre the design and construction of a new LU station entrance.
• Infrastructure Protection – working with external developers, designers and contractors to make sure their works don’t damage our assets or affect our operations.
• Asset Engineers – working with one of our technical discipline teams to assess and manage our track, drainage, geotechnical, tunnel and structural assets. Getting involved in repair and replacement options, designs and construction assurance, and structural assessments.
• Project Management and Sponsorship – getting experience with delivery of small and large scale transport projects from inception, investment decisions, to construction.

Your work will vary from placement to placement, and you will have the opportunity to identify your own placements on the projects you are most interested in, guided by your scheme Sponsor, Mentor, Buddy and Development Advisor. Placements could include improving the service life of structures and earthworks of London Underground, delivering innovative step-free access schemes to improve accessibility to our network, working with our consultants to design new low-carbon station boxes and tunnels on our Major Projects like Bank Station Capacity Upgrade, and designing new road layouts with our Highways Engineering teams to create new cycle superhighways across London.

Sustainability

Sustainability is intrinsic to TfL’s work ethos, and we ensure that we operate in a sustainable way to protect and regenerate the natural world.

Civil engineers are fundamental to designing, building and maintaining a sustainable transport network that meets the needs of London today and in the future. As part of this scheme, you will be given training on Sustainability and drive forward more sustainable designs and construction and maintenance practices.

What qualifications will you gain?

You will be developing your professional portfolio for Chartership with the Institution of Civil Engineers. The expectation is that you will have signed off 90% of the experience required for Chartership by the end of your 3-year scheme and be ready to sit for your Chartership review within 2-4 years after you finish on the Graduate scheme.

Where can this career take you?

A career with us can be very varied with opportunities across the whole of our engineering team for you to enjoy.

Typically, within five to eight years, you will be eligible to apply for Chartered Engineer status. This could open up opportunities to be a Senior Engineer, Project Engineer or Construction Engineer responsible for making key technical decisions. After a further few years, you could be a Team Leader or Project Technical Lead, managing your own team and make strategic decisions on design, strategy, and processes.

What training and support will you get?

Our award-winning teams will support your ongoing development, through a wide range of on-the-job practical experience and placements. We'll support your professional development through a combination of training, mentoring, and networking.

You'll also receive one-to-one guidance throughout the programme from your:

• Supervising Civil Engineer (Sponsor): A Senior Engineer who acts as a technical and professional adviser and has line manager responsibility.
• Placement manager: Responsible for your day-to-day management and support with your development.
• Buddy: Usually, a current graduate who gives support to you and helps ensure that you feel welcomed in the organization.
• Lead Scheme Sponsor: A Senior Manager who sets the technical direction for the scheme and guides the development and training of those on the scheme
• Development adviser: Supports your professional development through providing career coaching and career progression at TfL.

What we offer

You will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the business area but mostly include:

• Free travel on the TfL network for you and a nominee who lives in the same household
• Final salary pension scheme
• Discounted national rail and Eurostar travel
• Minimum 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• Private healthcare discounted scheme
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers & many more

Location

London-based hybrid working. Up to 50% of time can be spent working from home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements may alter subject to business requirements.

What we are looking for

A minimum of 2:1 MEng or MSc degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent, or on track to achieve a minimum 2:1 MEng or MSc degree in Civil Engineering or equivalent. Your academic qualification must meet the requirements for CEng registration with the Institution of Civil Engineers.

Please be advised that should you be successful in getting an offer for this graduate scheme, your offer may be subject to a satisfactory medical which may include but is not limited to drugs and alcohol screening, eye test and hearing test.

Our core values are extremely important to us, and we desire candidates who are:

• Caring about our colleagues, our customers and our work.
• Open to each other, to new ideas and to working together.
• Adaptable to diverse needs and willing to innovate.

If you want to influence the future of London and the future of transport, develop into a multi-discipline engineer, and contribute to solving the climate and ecological emergencies, then this is the graduate scheme for you.

Accepted degree subjects

• civil engineering and construction

Additional job details

How to apply

Thank you for your interest in applying for this TfL Graduate Scheme.

We’d like to remind you that you must ensure you are eligible for this scheme before applying. Please read through the eligibility criteria below carefully and ensure that you are eligible before applying.

This application will also contain a series of questions to establish whether or not you are eligible. It is important that you take great care in reading and answering these questions as we will not be able to revert your application if an error is made.

Please Note: We only allow one application for any of our Graduate schemes per year. Any subsequent applications will be withdrawn.

Application process

The application process consists of 5 steps, including online assessments which will need to be completed within an allocated time frame. We highly recommend that you read through this document thoroughly so that you can familiarise yourself with the process.

Please click on this link for which describes each stage of the Graduates Application Process.

If you already hold your qualification certificates, please upload copies of these to your application. If you are due to sit final exams or need to replace any certificates, these can be provided at a later stage.

Inclusive Recruitment Process

We operate a transparent recruitment process that removes barriers for disabled candidates.

We're a Disability Confident employer, and we offer guaranteed interviews to candidates who apply via the scheme where the minimum criteria for skills, knowledge and experience have been met.

Our candidate experience continues to be underpinned by a fair and robust reasonable adjustments process, in collaboration with our Occupational Health colleagues, and other expert organisations.

Contact us

Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.

Contact the recruitment team by:

• Phone: 0203 005 1680 (Monday to Friday between 09:00 and 17.30).
• Email: EarlyCareersCampaigns@tfl.gov.uk

Click Apply to start your application now. This job will be available on Prospects until 26 December 2024

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Closing date:  26 December 2024