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Launch your career and find your professional home at Ramboll. Be part of a welcoming and engaging environment, where you can develop and explore your professional interests and passions, and curiosity in ways that make the most of all the opportunities ahead of you.
At Ramboll, we offer a unique work environment. Our culture is built on openness, understanding, and respect, allowing you to shape your role to match your working style, aspirations, and personal life. Our Nordic heritage drives our commitment to improving conditions for people and nature through our projects. As a foundation-owned multinational company, the profit we make is reinvested into the company. This ensures the continued development of employees or is used to fund research, charity, and humanitarian projects. Our commitment to be 'The Partner for Sustainable Change' ensures your work makes a meaningful impact on people, communities, and the environment.
Our Early Careers Programme
We have designed a training program that will boost your personal, commercial and technical development to kick-start your career with Ramboll. You will also be paired with a mentor and have access to a clear framework to work towards your professional development.
The Early Careers Challenge is one of the highlights of the graduate training. This is a fun and exciting event where you get to travel around the UK and work on a project that will provide you with an insight into the concept of design. You also get the opportunity to collaborate and network with amazing people and peers.
About the opportunity
You will be involved in some of the UK’s most innovative and intricate projects. Each day as a graduate will offer new opportunities and challenges, ensuring no two days feel the same. Building Services is about taking buildings from an empty shell to a comfortable, functional, efficient and safe space.
As a Graduate Vertical Transportation Engineer at Ramboll, you will be involved in the design and delivery of Vertical Transportation and People Movement strategies, from competition stage to practical completion post-installation. These will involve (not exclusive):
- People flow simulations in buildings using Elevate™.
- The study and understanding of human behaviour, both in normal circumstances and during a building emergency;
- Coordination with major lift and escalator suppliers to understand their products and bespoke solutions;
- Collaboration with stakeholders regarding accessibility, fire evacuation and goods movements;
- Dimensional planning of the main building cores.
- Technical drawings review.
- Site activities supported by expert professionals, involving installation monitoring and condition surveys.
We work across all sectors, including residential, commercial, healthcare, higher education, among others; and our projects vary from very high-rise (100+ storeys) to accessibility solutions in low-rise buildings.
You will become a part of the Buildings department, which includes Building Services, Structures, Civil, Facades, Acoustics and many more specialist teams. Your role will allow you to collaborate with all disciplines, providing growth and knowledge to enhance your engineering competence.
Your skills and experience
From the moment you join Ramboll, we will support your personal and professional development so that you grow with the company. For this role, we believe your starting point is:
- A BEng, MEng or MSc level degree in a relevant engineering subject.
- An active curiosity around vertical transportation solutions.
- Interest in human behaviour in buildings, accessibility and evacuation of users in the event of an emergency.
- Demonstrable aptitude to learn computer simulation programmes.
- Ability to summarise and present complex engineering concepts via different channels, as well as to communicate appropriately with stakeholders.
- An interest in Digital Automation and Optimisation
We don’t expect you to know everything, but that you show curiosity, take responsibility, and want to deliver high-quality work. Ramboll strives to deliver excellent cross-functional solutions in a professional and well-coordinated manner to our clients. Therefore, we believe you have good communication and collaboration skills.
Benefits you will enjoy
- Hybrid & Flexible Working
- 27 days holiday per year + 8 days bank holiday
- Professional subscription + support on becoming chartered
- Matched pension scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- A great list of flexible benefits you can choose from including discounted taste card subscription, cycle to work scheme, gym flex and many more!
Selection process
We aim to respond to your application shortly after the deadline by the latest. Suitable candidates may have a short telephone call with a member of the London building services team, thereafter shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview at the Ramboll London office.
Work at the heart of sustainable change with Ramboll in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company. As a foundation-owned people company, founded in Denmark, we believe that the purpose of sustainable change is to create a thriving world for both nature and people. So, that’s where we start – and how we work. Our history is rooted in a clear vision of how a responsible company should act and being open and curious is a cornerstone of our culture. Ramboll in the United Kingdom and Ireland has a proven track record of sustainable and responsible business and is a top ten engineering and environmental and sustainability consultancy in the UK, with more than 1,500 employees across 16 offices. Ramboll experts deliver innovative solutions across Buildings, Transport, Environment & Health, and Energy. In 2024, Ramboll was included in the Sunday Times’ list of Best Places to Work.
