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Our Professional Development Programme sets the standard for training and progression and enables you to earn whilst you learn. Your professional qualification is on us! You’ll have a chance to work with a broad spectrum of talented and experienced colleagues who will offer fresh perspectives and help you learn the foundations of your professional practice whilst providing consulting and project services to our clients.

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The Opportunity

We have an opportunity for a Level 5 Civil Engineer Degree Apprentice to start in Summer / Autumn 2024 and join our water sector team based in Brighton .

Water is one of our most precious natural assets, and our work is key to helping provide innovative sustainable solutions that balance our environmental impact. You will be instrumental in helping to improve the water environment through our projects. Sustainability is key to our purpose, promise, and values and this role is a great fit for someone who is passionate about this and to responding to the impact of the climate emergency.

In your day-to-day work you will solve engineering problems, use design software and tools to carry out engineering calculations, develop designs, and produce drawings, reports, and presentations. You’ll be doing all this is as part of a friendly and collaborative project team along with the support and guidance of our highly skilled Senior Civil Engineers and Hydraulic Network Modellers.

As part of our Brighton water team, you can expect to be part of project teams working on:

• Managing water resources and reservoirs

• Producing high-quality drinking water for public supply

• Distributing water for our communities

• Protecting the natural environment from pollution

• Alleviating flooding for local communities

Our team in Brighton work most closely with our local client, Southern Water, as the lead organisation in the Strategic Solutions Partner (SSP+) framework. We work in an integrated team with the client at solution identification stage, allowing our engineers to have the greatest impact on cost, sustainability and carbon. Our office, located in Brighton’s renowned commercial centre, North Street, is just a 10-minute walk from the train station and only five minutes away from the beach. Our Developing Professionals Group (DPG) hold regular meetings in the office, providing peer support, mentoring and guidance, and a supportive environment in which to learn, develop and grow as an engineering apprentice through knowledge exchange and mentoring.

What will you gain?

You’ll be learning whilst you earn as you study for your degree in Civil Engineering. You’ll expand your knowledge by attending university on weekly day release at the University of Brighton. We’ll support you with mentoring and opportunities to progress your Incorporated Engineer professional qualification with the Institution of Civil Engineers at the same time as you are studying.

Find out more about the course and what you’ll be learning here – University of Brighton – Civil Engineer Degree Apprenticeship

About you:

For our apprenticeships no previous experience is required, if you are self-motivated, an excellent communicator and curious to learn more than this could be for you.

What you’ll need:

• A-levels BBB-CCC, including maths -or-

• BTEC Extended Diploma DDM-DMM, minimum M in Further Mathematics -or-

• Pass with 60 credits overall at Access to HE Diploma. At least 45 credits at level 3, with 24 credits at merit or above. Must achieve maths level 3 units at distinction.

Applicants may be entitled to exemptions if they have completed:

• an accredited Higher National Certificate (HNC) in civil engineering or equivalent with a suitable mathematics qualification

• Level 3 Apprenticeship in civil engineering technician

• an accredited Foundation Degree or High National Diploma (HND) in civil engineering, or equivalent with a suitable mathematics qualification.

Why join us?

The friendly and collaborative culture at Stantec is something we are proud of, and we have many other reasons for you to be excited about joining us. We offer a competitive salary, agile and flexible working arrangements, industry leading training, great projects, and lots more!

Your Application Journey:

Our apprentice application process is as follows:

1. Online Application

2. Video Interview and Aptitude Tests

3. Face-to-Face Interview

4. Offer

For further details on our application process, please visit Apprentice Application FAQ (stantec.com)

Reasonable Adjustments

We are an inclusive employer and want to ensure all our applicants have the same opportunity for success. Please inform us of any support or reasonable adjustment you may need as a result of a disability, long-term health condition, neurodiversity or other personal circumstances, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process (for example extra assessment time, visual adjustment, special access request).

Please contact a member of our talent team if reasonable adjustments are required. Our email is Careers.UK&I@stantec.com and a member of our team will be happy to assist.

About Stantec

About Stantec

Stantec is a top tier global consultancy, the Stantec community unites approximately 28,000 employees working in over 400 locations across 6 continents.

We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. With around 3,000 people working in integrated regional teams across the UK & Ireland. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our client’s vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insight.

We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities

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Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

For more information on Stantec UK Inclusion & Diversity approach please got to:

Inclusion & Diversity (stantec.com)

LandAid

Stantec has partnered with property sector charity LandAid as one of its corporate partners to join its mission to end youth homelessness.

In 2019/20, an estimated 120,000 young people asked for help from their local council because they were homeless or at risk of homelessness.

It’s a problem that LandAid are here to help tackle.

As the Property Industry Charity, LandAid unite over 200 organisations from across the sector, working together to bring an end to youth homelessness.

As a Charitable Trust, they distribute funding to frontline charities supporting the young and homeless – and primarily fund capital projects, such as renovating homes and building bedspaces.

We have seen the incredible impact that can happen when the industry unites and so Stantec are proud to be working alongside LandAid this year.

Together, we can end youth homelessness.

To find out more about LandAid and the amazing work they’re doing please visit www.landaid.org

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