Graduate Geotechnical Engineer | Graduate Geo-environmental Engineer - Cambridge - 2025

We are looking for a Graduate Geotechnical Engineer or Graduate Geo-environmental Engineer for our Infrastructure team to be based in Cambridge , joining our 2025 Graduate Programme. As a Stantec graduate, you will collaborate with your team and wider cohort, developing your expertise within an exciting and creative interdisciplinary environment. Our small, close-knit team of geo professionals is based in a wider multidisciplinary office and is part of a national ground engineering team. You will benefit from strong support from both office and technical colleagues, as well as significant guidance from senior staff within our open and collaborative culture. Our Cambridge office boasts a diverse range of disciplines within the Infrastructure & Buildings engineering and design team, fostering close collaboration on numerous projects. Joining our established ground assessment team offers an excellent opportunity to develop your skills in analyzing geological, geo-environmental, and geotechnical data; delivering ground investigations; supporting Environmental Impact Assessments; assessing foundations, slope stability, and earthworks; creating ground models; conducting contaminated land risk assessments; developing remediation strategies; monitoring fieldworks; designing and reporting on foundations, retaining walls, soil slope stability, earthworks, and rock slope stabilization; utilizing numerical analysis software; and collaborating with other technical experts on multidisciplinary design and construction projects. 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 Groundworks service line:- Ground Engineering (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 Bachelor's degree in Geology, Engineering Geology, Contaminated Land, Environmental Sciences or a related field, and a keen interest in the environmental/geotechnical field, you will be:-

• 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)