Overview

12-Month Work Placement - Structural Engineer (Water) at Arcadis.

Application closing date: 7th November 2025.

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life.

Role description

Our Intern & Placement programme is designed to give you hands-on insight into the work we do as a company and help develop skills and knowledge within your chosen field. Supported by signposted training, the programme is based on Arcadis’ core values, giving you both technical training and support to help you develop personally and professionally whilst with us. You will be exposed to real projects and clients and given a range of experiences to immerse yourself into over the course of your 10–12-week internship or 12 month placement.

Role accountabilities

Arcadis has a global community of structural engineers working on some of the most complex and challenging water structures for regulated water, environmental and waterway clients. We are committed to providing sustainable design solutions as part of an integrated design team. You will be supported and mentored to deliver design and interact with other professionals on projects varying in size from £5M to £1,000M. We have an excellent program to support you in becoming chartered. Working in teams of various sizes you will help develop first-class, digital and sustainable solutions for our clients, gaining a wide variety of experience on projects across the UK and Europe.

Qualifications & Experience

• You will be working towards a degree in a relevant subject
• You will demonstrate typical Arcadian skills including resilience, creativity, analytical thinking and being a team player
• You will have excellent communication skills and the ability to use your technical knowledge to influence and consult stakeholders
• Willing to travel and stay away from home when required (where possible we embrace virtual working)

Education

• Accepted degrees: MEng/MSc/BEng/BSc Structural or Civil Engineering

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Other

Industries

• Professional Services