How to get a job in Civil engineering
How to get a job in civil engineering 2008
A civil engineering degree is the foundation for a huge range of potential careers. Find out more with NCEs How to get a job in civil engineering 2008 undergraduate guide.
Company profiles
Adams Kara Taylor
Adams Kara Taylor is a design-led practice of structural and civil engineers. Its work will be suited to graduates who are interested in many aspects of design, including visionary architecture, advanced geometry, sustainability and new technologies.
Aecom
Aecom’s team of professionals are united by a common purpose – to enhance and sustain the world’s built, natural and social environments.
Arup
Arup is an internationally renowned multidisciplinary engineering consultant employing about 4,500 people in the UK and 8,500 in total worldwide. Its reputation is based on projects like the Sydney Opera House, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, London's Millennium Bridge and the M6 Toll Road.
Atkins
Atkins is a multinational design and engineering consultancy, providing expertise to help resolve complex challenges presented by the built and natural environment.
Balfour Beatty
Exciting major projects, smaller jobs on which you can cut your teeth, and early responsibility: this is what graduates can expect from Balfour Beatty.
Capita Symonds
Capita Symonds is looking for successful graduates that stand out from the crowd and want to make an impact – in their profession, the office they work in, the projects they work on and the clients they work with.
Carillion
From new hospitals to luxury marinas, motorways to major rail routes, state-of-the-art offices to schools and shopping centres, bridges and sports stadia, Carillion works on a huge range of projects worldwide – and so could you.
Costain
Costain, a leading engineering and construction company, is one of the largest contractors in the UK, with staff in excess of 2,300 and a turnover in excess of £900M.
Cundall
As a firm of leading multidisciplinary consulting engineers, Cundall focuses on designing environmentally sustainable buildings to a high standard of creativity and excellence.
Environment
Flooding is one of the most important issues facing humankind. Right now, 5 Million people, 2 Million homes and 185,000 businesses are at risk in England and Wales.
Faber Maunsell
Faber Maunsell is a company involved in creating a better world in which to work and live.
Halcrow
Halcrow specialises in the provision of professional planning, design and management services for infrastructure development worldwide. Ranked as one of the UK’s leading consultancies, the company generates a turnover in excess of £280 million.
Hyder
Hyder Consulting, the leading international advisory and design consultancy, has over 4,700 employees in 62 offices worldwide.
Jacobs
Jacobs is one of the world's largest and most diverse providers of professional technical services to commercial industrial and government clients.
Metronet
Metronet Rail is transforming two-thirds of the London Underground, taking part in the world's-largest metro regeneration scheme.
MWH
MWH is one of the worlds largest providers of water, environmental, infrastructure and energy services. With 7,000 staff and 170 offices around the globe, MWH offers a world of opportunity for broadening experience and rapid career development.
Opus
Opus is a leading international multidisciplinary consultancy, with more than 2,000 staff based in offices in the UK, New Zealand, Australia and Canada.
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Parsons Brinckerhoff employs over 12,000 people worldwide, 2,000 of them in the UK.
Scott Wilson
Scott Wilson Group is a multi-disciplinary international design and engineering consultancy for the built and natural environments.
Sinclair Knight Merz
Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) is a leading engineering, sciences and project delivery firm with more than 6,000 employees.
Tony Gee
Tony Gee and Partners LLP (TGP) is a practice of civil, structural and geotechnical design engineers providing technical consultancy to the worldwide construction industry.
Transport for London
Transport for London (TFL) is, quite simply, unique. We are responsible for the capital's transport network – from buses, trains and roads, to cycle paths, taxis and the River Thames.
URS
URS is recognised as one of the world’s leading consulting firms, based in more than 300 offices around the globe. Together, URS people number more than 55,000
Walsh Associates
Founded in 1989, Walsh Associates is one of the top structural and civil engineering consultants in the UK, specialising in urban regeneration projects.
WSP
WSP Group is a global business providing management and consultancy services to the built and natural environment.
Adams Kara Taylor
Adams Kara Taylor is a design-led practice of structural and civil engineers. Its work will be suited to graduates who are interested in many aspects of design, including visionary architecture, advanced geometry, sustainability, new technologies and civils projects.
Arup
Arup is an internationally renowned multi disciplinary global design and business consulting firm employing about 5,000 people in the UK and 9,500 in total worldwide.
Atkins
Atkins provides professional design and engineering consultancy services in the built and natural environment. The firm is a major player across a diverse range of sectors including building design, highways, rail, aviation, water, oil and gas, power, nuclear, defence and the environment.
Balfour Beatty
Exciting major projects, smaller jobs on which you can cut your teeth, and early responsibility: this is what graduates can expect from Balfour Beatty.
Buro Happold
Buro Happold is an international multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy with a world-class reputation for delivering challenging projects in both public and private sectors.
Carillion
From new hospitals to luxury marinas, motorways to major rail routes, state-of-the-art offices to schools and shopping centres, bridges and sports stadia, Carillion works on a huge range of projects worldwide – and so could you.
Costain
Costain, a leading engineering and construction company, is one of the largest contractors in the UK, with staff in excess of 2,300 and a turnover in excess of £870m.
Cundall
As a firm of leading multidisciplinary consulting engineers, Cundall focuses on designing environmentally sustainable buildings to a high standard of creativity and excellence.
Entec
Entec is a major environmental and engineering consultancy with over 800 staff and associates acrossa national network of offices.
Environment Agency
Flooding is one of the most important issues facing humankind. Right now, five million people, two million homes and 185,000 businesses are at risk in England and Wales.
Grontmij
Grontmij is an international engineering consultancy with Dutch roots and offices throughout the globe.
Halcrow
Halcrow is somewhere you can make an impact, where there are fresh challenges and no two days are the same.
Jacobs
Jacobs is one of the world's largest and most diverse providers of professional technical services to commercial, industrial and government clients.
Laing O'Rourke
Laing O’Rourke Corporation Limited is the largest privately owned construction company in the UK, operating across three hubs: Europe, the Middle East & Asia and Australasia.
Mott MacDonald
Mott MacDonald is a 12,000-strong global management, engineering and development consultancy. With projects in more than 140 countries, the company works in all sectors – from transport, energy, buildings, water and the environment to health, education, industry and communications.
MWH
MWH, an employee-owned global environmental engineering consultancy, provides knowledge-driven services to government agencies, utility companies and multinational organisations.
Opus
Opus is a leading international multi-disciplinary consultancy, with over 2400 staff in offices throughout the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia and Canada.
Scott Wilson
Scott Wilson Group provides sustainable, integrated solutions to meet the planning, engineering, management and environmental needs of clients across the transportation, property, environment and natural resources sectors.
Sinclair Knight Merz
Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) is a leading engineering, sciences and project delivery firm with over 6500 employees.
Tony Gee
Tony Gee and Partners (TGP) is a practice of civil, structural and geotechnical design engineers providing technical consultancy to the worldwide construction industry. The firm strives for innovation, providing clients with efficient designs across a portfolio of award-winning projects.
TPS
TPS, the consultancy business of Carillion, provides comprehensive project management, planning, engineering and architectural design, and construction consultancy to a wide client base across the construction industry.
Transport for London
Transport for London (TfL) keeps London moving, providing the infrastructure and network that the whole city relies on, including river services, cycle paths, roads and taxis as well as buses and the tube. It’s a massive operation that impacts upon millions of Londoners and visitors.
URS
As a multidisciplinary consultancy, engineers and environmental consultants work alongside each other, supported by global resources. URS employs 30,000 staff in 330 offices worldwide, including 13 offices in the UK and Ireland.
WSP
WSP is a business that is always facing the future. The company works with clients to create built and natural environments for the 21st century.
WYG
WYG continues to be one of the fastest growing multidisciplinary consultancies offering a range of services to clients in the public and private sector.
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