Summer Internship-Highways (5220)

The Opportunity

On this 6-week Summer Internship you'll work alongside skilled professionals and from day one you will be working on real life meaningful projects - adding add value to clients, while exploring challenges with curiosity and creativity.

You'll learn from others and begin creating your professional network ready for when you graduate. There are regular learning sessions with our leadership team, opportunities for site visits to local projects and all kinds of social events that will support your learning and development.

Our aim is to welcome as many students back into our other programmes be that another internship or potential graduate position. This placement is the stepping-stone to your future.

You'll help us to deliver effective and professional services for a range of varied and high-profile clients. While you'll have a great deal of responsibility from day one, we'll give you the chance to take on more as you progress and broaden your skills.

Sustainability is at the core of our project delivery, where we focus on making best use of existing assets, delivering high value, low carbon solutions for our clients and end users. This role will include the delivery of projects of a wide variety of scale and complexity in the discipline of highways and multi-disciplinary infrastructure projects. Your day-to-day roles and responsibilities will include drafting of drawings, modelling engineering elements in both 2D and 3D, model, Building Information Management (BIM coordination, self checking work and supporting engineering colleges. The areas of work you will be involved in include Highway Design (Strategic and Local roads), Pavement Engineering, Street Furniture, Active Travel, Sustainable Drainage, Utility co-ordination and Digital.

Is this role right for you?

Qualifications

We encourage our Summer Interns to demonstrate drive and motivation, a willingness to learn about our sector, and a desire to effectively deliver an excellent service to our clients. As such, we are looking for the following qualifications, skills and attributes in you:

• Studying an MEng or BEng in Civil or Structural Engineering, depending on which discipline you join;
• On track to achieve a 2.1 or above, as proven through the modules that you have completed to date;
• Demonstrate strong motivation and passion for a career in Civil Engineering projects; and
• Interest in and application of digital skills, such as computer coding for design automation and problem-solving is an advantage.
  
  

We're looking for people who are curious and ready to evolve how you think and work. Our strength comes from how we respect, share and connect our diverse experiences, perspectives and ideas. At Arup, you belong to an extraordinary collective – in which we encourage individuality to thrive. If you can share your knowledge and ideas and encourage others to do the same; whilst having a desire to deliver excellent services for clients – we'd like to hear from you.

You should be able to start this opportunity in Summer (June/July) 2025.

Role Closing date: 31 st Jan 2025. Please note: We may close the role earlier than the advertised date should we receive a large number of applications, so please ensure you apply early.