Graduate Civil Engineer (Infrastructure) - Taunton - 2025

We are looking for a Graduate Civil Engineer for our Infrastructure team to be based in Taunton , joining our 2025 Graduate Programme. As a Stantec graduate, you will collaborate with your team and wider cohort, developing your civil engineering expertise within an exciting and creative interdisciplinary environment. You will be part of an experienced civils team in Taunton, with wider team support across the South-West, where you will work across a number of transformational, high-profile development infrastructure projects. You will work within an engineering team liaising with clients, fellow professionals and other disciplines within the office and across our business and will gain experience supporting all phases of the project life cycle, from feasibility through to construction. You will benefit from the structured graduate training scheme and be assigned a Delegated Engineer and Supervising Civil Engineer to support you in your route to Chartership. The Taunton civils team works closely with our Building, Transport and Environment colleagues, so you will be exposed to a variety of different disciplines and projects, whilst supporting the engineers in the team. The team's primary focus includes a mix of public and private sector schemes, including some significant development, infrastructure and regeneration projects, promoting growth in both residential and commercial markets. Assisting with technical input into a variety of projects, your duties could include:

• Getting involved in the development of concept, preliminary and detailed scheme designs.
• Preparing design reports, specifications and technical notes.
• Completing civil engineering design work and calculations, this could include preparing 3D design models of our projects, designing and evaluating earthworks, highway and drainage networks.
• Researching the latest technologies and construction techniques and playing a key role in minimising the environmental impact of our projects.
• Assisting in the management of Health and Safety risks and taking steps to proactively manage and mitigate potential issues.
• Assisting our clients to complete exemplar concept and detailed and in doing considering solutions that minimise embodied carbon.
• Developing an understanding of the various stakeholders involved in infrastructure design and management by collaborating with professionals from other organisations and disciplines.
You will join a supportive and successful team with exciting career opportunities, gain great client exposure and professional development and work in an innovative and collaborative environment. Take a look at our Energy service line:- Energy (stantec.com), and review the career journey of our Stantec graduates here:- Stantec | Career Stories, Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment, supporting inclusion & diversity . We prohibit discrimination on the grounds of demographic background in any condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations, and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment. We want to ensure all our applicants have the same opportunity for success. Please inform us of any support/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 (e.g. extra assessment time, special access request etc). Please contact Careers.UK&I@stantec.com and a member of our team will be happy to assist.

At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with a minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and a keen interest in the Infrastructure sector:-
• A collaborator: You'll love to work effectively with lots of different people at different levels, all inputting their part towards a shared goal.
• An adapter: Able to remain calm in new situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.
• A planner: Organizing and managing your own activities, dealing effectively with multiple priorities with a structured approach.
• A striver: Exhibiting ownership, consistently delivering on tasks and objectives. You'll be motivated and proactive in your tasks, having the desire to make a real difference.
• A multi-tasker: Thinking about more than one task at a time, while still having an eye for detail.
• A problem-solver: You'll love to give your thoughts based on what you see, being unafraid to challenge conventional thinking.
Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office 4 days per week, to ensure that you receive sufficient time with your team and receive the appropriate level of support., Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK for an indefinite period without limitation.

The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees, working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. 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 clients' vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. 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.


• A competitive salary
• Private medical insurance
• A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection and life assurance
• Permanent employment contract to demonstrate our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec
• Professional progression plan, supporting you to gain professional chartership
• A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups)