We are excited to launch our Graduate roles, starting in September 2025! Are you ready to kickstart your career in a team where you can make a difference?
Skanska, one of the world’s leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.
Our graduate programme will help you build on your degree and establish a career where you will have the freedom to learn, achieve your ambitions and leave your mark on the communities in which we work.
Our Infrastructure team are looking for Civil Engineers to join their team on the Morgan and Mona wind farm project, a proposed offshore wind farm located in the east Irish Sea. This role will be based in Glasgow.
What you'll do
- Plan and produce methodologies for mobilising and setting up sections of work
- Utilise surveying skills to set out details for construction
- Work with subcontractors to ensure the timely preparation and implementation of Risk Assessments & Method Statements, Inspection Test Plans, Permits & Consents
- Site coordination and logistical planning to enable works to be carried out safely
- Identify the needs for temporary works and completing temporary work designs working with the temporary works team
- Maintain a high standard of Quality Control and Quality Assurance records, including managing Non-Conformance Reports and Early Warning Notices
- Produce accurate and detailed daily diaries for your work areas
- Work collaboratively with enabling teams, for example in Traffic Management, Earthworks, Utilities and Community Relations
- Complete environmental risk assessments for works and assist in managing works activities in an ecologically sensitive manner
What you'll bring to the role
- You are in your final year of achieving an ICE accredited degree in Civil Engineering, or have recently graduated
- Enthusiastic about learning, personal and professional growth
- Able to take information from drawings to implement efficient planning services to the business
- Able to communicate complex information to a wide range of audiences
- You have a strong interest in innovation, sustainability and making a positive impact
- You work collaboratively towards shared goals and targets
- You are motivated to work in site-based environment, initially on a highway project
- This role requires visits to sites. As such, we would expect you to have a driving licence or work towards obtaining one within your first year of working with us
What we offer
- You will be a part of a community of 100+ graduates and apprentices
- Starting salary: From £30,000
- We want you to do well and will support you to have a meaningful career beyond the apprenticeship
- Support and guidance from experienced leaders and teams
- Professional and social events
- Opportunities to volunteer in the local community at least one day per year
- Support to achieve your professional accreditation and expenses covered for the professional membership of your choice
- Access to our employee networks - these include: Womxn’s, Ability, Pride, O.N.E (Origins, Nationalities & Ethnicities), Military, and Mental Health & Wellbeing
- My Rewards – an array of retail, dining, well-being and travel discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flex-It programme to achieve a work life balance where possible
- You would be joining a mental health aware organisation where we offer wellbeing support through our employee assistance programme; mental health ambassador network and awareness discussions
About Skanska
Skanska Group uses knowledge and foresight to shape the way people live, work and connect. More than 135 years in the making, we are one of the world’s largest development and construction companies. We create innovative and sustainable solutions that support healthy living beyond our lifetime. Established in the UK in 2000, Skanska has more than 3,300 local experts delivering projects across sectors including real estate, defence, education, highways, rail and water.
At Skanska, we believe in our Purpose, we build for a better society. Through our Values of care for life, commit to customers, be better - together and act ethically and transparently you will enable us to deliver our purpose.
Equal opportunities
We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.
Flexible working
We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.
Reasonable adjustments
We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using emerging.talent@skanska.co.uk if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application. For example, if you were eligible for extra time during exams at school or university, please let us know as we can offer you more time to complete any online assessments, if applicable.
More information about the role
Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. If you have any questions, please contact us: emerging.talent@skanska.co.uk
