Asset Management Placement Scheme 2022

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Job description

Making big things happen

Are you ready to be part of a well-respected team with a solid reputation in the design, engineering and project management industry? Join our Placement Scheme where you'll gain exposure to complex work, receiving all levels of support from line managers to senior leaders.

While you grow in areas that excite you, we also encourage you to maintain a positive work-life balance. So, during our recruitment process, tell us what matters to you. Speak to us about how we support wellbeing in and out of the office - including different ways to be flexible around work. Let's also talk about some of our recent pledges for Women's Equality and how we're Disability Confident and an Inclusive Employer.

With Atkins or Faithful+Gould, you'll be in great company.

Your role

Join our placement scheme and enjoy exposure to a wide variety of industries, clients and projects. We design with people in mind. And we've designed our placement opportunities to provide you with unique experiences as you play your part in all kinds of challenging projects. In Asset Management, we help our customers to get the most out of their infrastructure assets. We provide the information they need to make key plans and decisions about the future, such as when to invest in their assets and what maintenance activities to prioritise. We help clients understand their data and bring it to life, using a variety of tools and solutions. As one of the team, we'll trust you to help our clients make the right decisions to best realise their development goals.

Where you could work

You can join the following business areas:

Faithful+Gould - Strategic Asset Management
Industrial year location: London

You'll join us as a placement student and will help provide expert advice to our clients on a range of complex projects. Our Consultants work across both public and private sectors, including universities, pharmaceutical, government and new and refurbishment development projects. You'll learn to work with clients; develop your confidence, as well as your communication and problem solving skills to become a well-rounded consultant of the future. You'll be given the opportunity to grow, with a wide variety of projects to work on with an experienced, high performing team to learn from.

Transportation - Digital Asset Management

Our teams:

Digital Delivery and Data Analysis

Industrial year locations: Birmingham, London, Manchester

Pavement Engineering

Industrial year locations: Cambridge

Strategic Advice

Industrial year locations: Birmingham, London, Manchester

In a connected and ever-changing world, we're shaping the future of transport, making journeys easier, safer and more reliable, supporting a healthier, happier and more productive society. Through combining traditional engineering, new technologies and innovative thinking we bring ideas to life, meeting increased demands on infrastructure to deliver not only more, but better for less. As partner of choice, our industry-leading expertise, strategic insight and capability spans the full transport ecosystem, reimagining infrastructure across rail, highways and local transport. Our collaborative approach puts our customers at the heart of everything we do, driving efficiencies, improving mobility and unlocking growth.

You can find more about our Transportation team and locations on our website.

About you

We're not all the same, and that's our greatest strength. Different views and opinions enhance our ability to provide value-added performance and better services for our clients. That's why we believe different, makes a difference. Reaching your full potential means being able to bring your whole self to work and being respected for the different opinions, strengths and experience you bring.

Our placement scheme has been designed to give you an insight into what it's like to work with us and the chance to explore where your own skills and interests lie. Through a combination of on-the-job learning and practical skills development within your chosen role, you'll work on real projects from day one that offer scale and variety collaborating with others and creating meaningful impact on the world around us. Whichever path you take, your future starts here.

Find out more about why we believe 'Different, makes a difference'

What you'll need?

• An understanding of the consultancy environment
• To embrace equality, diversity and inclusion in everything you do
• A desire to work collaboratively with a curious approach, challenging yourself to find new solutions
• Enthusiasm and drive to develop your skillset and seek out development opportunities within a supportive team
• Motivation to achieve professional accreditation (where applicable)
• To be comfortable embracing agile ways of working and learning new technologies

Meeting your needs

We aim to promote a workplace which allows our people to perform at their best. So, as well as ensuring you're rewarded for your efforts, we also have a variety of initiatives in place to create a healthy workplace and support your well-being to include:

• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing you with immediate and confidential help for any work, health or life matters
• Join any of our employee networks for social interaction, peer support and personal development, as well as contributing to the development of policies and working practices

In addition to the above, our top performing placement students (who've completed at least 8 weeks on placement with us) have the opportunity to be nominated onto our Graduate Development Programme.

To view all available benefits, visit our Total Rewards portal.

How do I apply?

Please click "Apply" below to register your details and start your application journey. To find out more and for advice on how to play to your strengths, visit us on Connectr.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we're able to support you to perform at your best at each stage of our recruitment process and can make adjustments to ensure this. So, whether you consider yourself to have a disability or not, or would simply like to know how we can support you better, please contact us.

Remember, our programmes are incredibly popular, and some roles may close early. So, avoid disappointment by getting your application in as soon as possible.