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Graduate Engineer (Mechanical) Derby- Summer Intake 2027
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Graduate Engineer (Mechanical) - Summer Intake 2027
Location
Derby
Job Type
Permanent
Overview
Do you enjoy designing, problem-solving and making things work better? Are you ready to take your first step into the world of professional engineering?
Join a team where you’ll learn from experienced engineers, work on exciting projects and bring your ideas to life.
Create Solutions that will enable a better tomorrow
To grow our Mechanical team in Derby, we are looking for a Graduate Engineer to join us. Working on one of the UK’s most prestigious projects you’ll co-create with engineers across the UK. You'll also be supported by our engineers in your on-going professional development (Chartership) with a tailored plan to achieve your career aspirations.
Key Responsibilities
- Producing engineering designs, assessments, and evaluations in accordance with project requirements
- Preparing calculations, undertaking local and global structural modelling, writing reports, and checking drawings
- Checking design calculations and drawings done by other engineers
- Performing a wide variety of engineer activities including collating and understanding data, running analysis, developing calculation methods, and working with colleagues to deliver consistently high-quality project work
- Contributing to the dissemination of engineering good practice and implementation of our in-house tools such as the carbon calculation tool
- With the support of your project manager, plan and prioritize your workload, reporting back on progress against a project budget and programme
- Accountable for completing your tasks to a high technical standard, with accuracy supported by careful self-review
- Attending site visits or client meetings
About You
Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.
The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners, or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.
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On top of that, you’ll have:
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree (BEng, BSc, MEng, or MSc) in Civil or Structural Engineering, or a closely related discipline — either completed or due to be awarded this summer.
- A genuine interest in becoming a Chartered Engineer, with the motivation and commitment to get there
- Some practical experience in an engineering environment, whether through a year in industry, summer placements, or a dissertation/final year project with real-world application
- Be able to evidence a thorough understanding of engineering and a clear commitment to high technical standards
- Ability and willingness to work in a diverse and multi-disciplinary team
- Be able to demonstrate good communication skills and teamwork
About Us
At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers. We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.
With offices primarily located in the Nordic region, the UK and Ireland, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.
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Benefits
To us, a fair reward is more than a competitive salary. We want to take care of our people professionally and personally as well.
Some of our benefits include:
- 28 days' holiday plus all UK bank and public holidays
- Formalised development plans and yearly promotion opportunities
- Private health care, for you and a contribution from you for your immediate dependents
- Flexible and hybrid working conditions
- Annual subscription fees paid for your membership of two Professional Institutions
- Group personal pension scheme – salary exchange
- Life assurance
- Maternity Leave: 1-20 weeks full pay, 21-26 weeks half pay, 27-39 Statutory (SMP) 40-52 weeks unpaid (eligibility criteria will apply)
- Paternity Leave: 12 weeks full pay (eligibility criteria will apply)
Optional benefits include:
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Electric vehicle lease
- Corporate gym membership
- Annual Rail card (available for under 30s)
Contact
Got more questions?
If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Shruti Gupta at srgu@cowi.com.
Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com, where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.
Equal Opportunity Employer
COWI provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, national origin, age or disability. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
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