Civil Engineering Graduate Plymouth 2022

A superb opportunity to join our progressive, award-winning Civil and Structural team.

The future of education, strategic land, urban regeneration and the tech industry – just a flavour of the kind of projects that await a career in Hydrock.

We are looking for graduates with a passion for the built environment, and the desire to work in a highly collaborative multi-disciplinary team focused on sustainability, technical excellence and shaping construction in the UK and beyond.

What you need to know about Hydrock in less than 125 words!

Hydrock is a British owned integrated engineering design, energy and sustainability consultancy, with social value running through everything we do.

Our reputation as a people-focused business is established with our regular placement in the 100 Best Large Companies To Work For listings. Our growth across the UK is also evidenced from winning national awards for our best projects – 2020 Business Green Awards, Green Building Project of the Year for The Wave and 2021 British Construction Industry Award for UWE Engineering.

At Hydrock, you’ll enjoy working in a great team of circa 700 people with a genuine opportunity to develop and to be recognised and rewarded, and to be inspired by what we do – here’s a taster of the ‘good bits’ of 2021.

What will you be responsible for?

• Contributing to the delivery on a varied portfolio of projects, with support from senior team members, including concept and scheme design, modelling, detailed design and specification and drawing
• Preparation of reports providing advice and guidance to clients and project teams
• Liaising with internal and external team members, developing relationships and people skills
• Managing own workload to meet project deadlines.
• Engaging with the wider C&S division, the Technical leadership Team and Carbon Task Force to exchange best practice and processes and support on-going initiatives.
• Arrange and attend meetings, take minutes and distribute actions.
• Attending and contributing to project team meetings.
• Attending site to undertake inspections and walkovers
• Developing commercial awareness by assisting with preparation of proposals/tenders for new work

To succeed in this role, you’ll need

• A relevant degree, BEng (Hons) or BSc (Hons) or equivalent/higher.
• Humility, self-motivation and enthusiasm.
• Excellent communication, presentation and written skills.
• To buy into Hydrock’s values and ethos

We are also keen to know if you can offer any of these attributes

• Relevant under or post graduate industry experience
• Experience of relevant software tools e.g. AutoCAD, WinDES, PDS, Civil 3D

What you can expect 

Inspired and motivated colleagues. A good team, office and employer. A genuine opportunity to create and to be recognised and rewarded.

The remuneration package will include a competitive salary and employer pension contribution, 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy/sell up to five days), well-being bonus and a wide variety of flexible benefits. There are also little things like a paid day off for good causes and free fresh fruit in the office.

A career with Hydrock offers you the chance to achieve your potential in a strongly people-focused and values-led business that provides great opportunities for professional and personal development.

A place where we can all thrive

At Hydrock we value our diversity and place wellbeing and inclusion for all at the heart of our culture. Offering our people flexibility is an important factor in achieving these aims, so we encourage everyone talk to us about any ideas which enable you to balance your personal commitments with your responsibilities at work. Please let us know your current and/or desired flexible working arrangements in your covering letter, so we can discuss how this could work for you in this role.

Hydrock is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We consider all applications on an individual’s alignment with the required qualifications, knowledge and experience outlined in this job advert, without regard to any of the protected characteristics. So that we can provide everyone with a fair selection, assessment and employment experience, please make us aware if you have any physical or neurodiverse condition for which appropriate reasonable adjustments can be made by us.

You will need to be eligible to work in the UK without our sponsorship to have your application considered for this role, as we are not able to provide a Skilled Worker visa for this position.  

Next steps

• Once you have completed your application through our careers site, we aim to review and respond to you within two weeks. 
• If shortlisted, a member of our Recruitment Team will call you for an initial pre-screen by phone (typically 30 minutes) to help us assess your motivations and interest in the position and Hydrock. 
• If you progress following this telephone pre-screen, you will be invited to attend a formal interview by video conference (Microsoft Teams) or in our offices (if possible and in line with Covid-19 guidelines). Please let us know what you feel comfortable with.