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Graduate Water Engineer - Leeds - 2024 intake

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Buro Happold

Nov 2, 2023

Applications are closed

  • Job
    Full-time
    Entry Level
  • Sustainability
  • Leeds

Requirements

  • You will be educated to at least Degree level, with Masters level preferred.
  • The members of the Water Group have a range of educational backgrounds. Civil Engineering is a common degree but by no means required. Whatever your degree subject you should be able to demonstrate a passion for a sustainable approach to water.
  • You may also have basic CAD and/or GIS skills.
  • You will be a self-motivated, have a keen interest in sustainable engineering, an understanding of climate change adaptation and a desire to learn within the context of a strong, highly skilled team.

Responsibilities

  • Undertake water resource and flood risk management assessments.
  • Support coastal design including harbour design and beach management.
  • Work competently on an independent basis, as well as collaborating within the design team.
  • Communicate directly with external stakeholders, such as the Environment Agency, Local Planning Authorities, and design team members.
  • Develop numerical modelling skills for hydrology, open channel flows, piped networks, and coastal flushing
  • Working with spatial mapping software such as QGIS.
  • Prepare concept and design drawings and take responsibility for delivering engineering solutions.

Engineering | Consultancy | Advisory

Real Estate
Industry
1001-5000
Employees
1976
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

We are an international, integrated consultancy of engineers, designers and advisers. For over 45 years, we have built an unrivalled reputation by delivering creative, value-led solutions for the benefit of people, places and planet. Described by our clients as 'passionate', 'innovative' and 'collaborative', Buro Happold is synonymous with the delivery of exceptionally complex projects on every continent, working with the world's leading architectural practices and organisations, such as the United Nations, UNESCO and C40 Cities. Through our global community of driven, world-leading engineering, advisory and design professionals, we are acting to address major challenges in an ever-evolving world.

Culture & Values

  • We value human wellbeing, and are discontented with limitations. We commit to taking this as seriously for our people as our projects.

  • We are a diverse, one-firm culture. When we get it right, it sings. Internal barriers are always to be overcome through inclusivity and equity above all else.

  • We embrace mutual responsibility. It is easy to default to individual success. Teams need to share success and failure in the same way.

  • We are more than a business. We care about the legacy of our work. We have a responsibility of care as an employer and influencer in the shaping of the world.

  • Sustainability is intrinsic to the economic and social impact of our work. Going beyond compliance requires challenging preconceptions, taking extra steps.

  • It takes courage to create. Our culture fosters a dynamic between technology and empathy to gain deeper insight, unleash imagination, and manage risk.