Graduate River and Coastal Civil Engineer 2025 (Reading)

You will be part of a large and diverse team in which you will be supporting the delivery of engineering solutions for the water environment. This role can be based in Reading. The team works on a large variety of projects, such as river restoration, natural flood management, river and waterways structures, surface water drainage, flood alleviation schemes, wetland design, flood risk management and river and coastal engineering. If you enjoy problem solving and have a passion for climate change and sustainability, then this is the role for you! As a Graduate River and Coastal Engineer, you will be supporting senior staff on:

• Detailed design
• Report writing
• Optioneering
• Programme & project management
• Site visits, 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., 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.

You'll have a keen interest in flood risk, hydrology, hydraulics and water management, which is demonstrated through your studies and your extra-curricular activities.
• You will have achieved or be on target to a Honours Degree in Civil Engineering, with a bias in river flood and/or coastal engineering.
• You will have relevant work experience gained through summer placements and internships.
• Finally, you must be eligible to live and work in the UK at the time you start employment., Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK for an indefinite period without limitation.
  
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