Civil Engineering Apprentice / Water (Level 6) - Cardiff (Summer 2027 start)

Location: Cardiff, Wales, gb Employment Type: {'id': 'permanent', 'label': 'Full-time'}

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World.

At AECOM, we're delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world's most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

Start here. Grow here.

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of nearly 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

We're one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

Job Description

About Our Team

Our Water specialists work together worldwide to find innovative solutions to the management of water. We provide technical expertise and solutions for projects in areas such as:

Flood Risk Management

Hydraulic Modelling and Design (Surface, Potable and Foul)

Sustainable Drainage Systems and Water Sensitive Urban Design

Mains Infrastructure Design (Surface, Potable and Foul)

Non-Infrastructure Design (Pumping Stations, Storage Tanks)

Hydrology and Water Resources

We will pair you with an experienced engineer who will guide and mentor you through your initial period working on live projects.

Here's what you'll do

Job responsibilities

Undertake technical and feasibility studies to appraise the practicability of solutions in aspects such as potable water, foul water, surface water and attenuation requirements, including appropriate calculations

Produce designs of water infrastructure such as pump systems and pipe networks with attention to safety in design, such as creating a Designer’s Risk Assessment document

Produce technical engineering drawings including plans, sections and typical details

Undertake numerical analysis including the use of computer-based programmes to assist with the study of potable, surface and wastewater systems

Explore and implement automated tools and innovative processes to improve workflow efficiency, including leveraging AI-driven solutions

Keep up to date with developments in regulatory legislation and guidelines that may affect design work

Working with other team members to undertake technical work, site work, and project management

Opportunities for site visits, to develop wider understanding of how designs are implemented

Enjoy the Perks.

At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Here is what you will get from us!

On the job support and learning

When an apprentice starts at AECOM, we pair them with a senior member of the team who will guide and mentor them through their initial period working on live projects and business development tasks, to support with any technical queries. We also offer our apprentices the flexibility of working on a range of projects in the various service offerings and technical specialisms that our Practice delivers. This helps establish their areas of interest, and develops a firm sustainability grounding, that will allow our apprentice to choose the direction of their career.

Apprentice Development Programme

In addition to your identified external training provision on the Degree Apprenticeship BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering at the University of South Wales, our internal Apprentice ADVANCE programme is designed to help you build your career in AECOM.

You will attend several instructor-led training sessions where you will meet and hear from people across the business and take part in a series of interactive activities to equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in your role.

We will provide you with all the support and tools you need to achieve your professional development ambitions, including Chartership with the relevant international professional institution.  Professional institute qualifications you may be able to work towards include EngTech then IEng acrreditation with ICE.

See our digital early careers e-brochure here

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

This position is ideally suited to school leavers who have/are about to completed A-Levels (or an equivalent qualification) and can demonstrate the following to enable them to enrol on the following course, Degree Apprenticeship BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering at the University of South Wales, commencing Sept 27.

The following link offers an overview of a related course, with variations in both module content and programme duration.

BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering - University of South Wales

All applicants must have achieved

Minimum of 5 GCSE's Grade 4/C or above in GCSE English Language and Mathematics (or an equivalent qualification), and:

Three A-levels (or equivalent qualifications) at grades ABB, including: Biology; Chemistry; Computing/Computer Science; Design and Technology; Electronics; Engineering; Geography; ICT; Further Mathematics; Music Technology; Physics; Statistics. Points from A-level General Studies and AS-level subjects (not taken onto full A-level) can be included towards overall tariff. You must have a minimum of two A-levels.

The following alternative qualifications may also be considered:

EDEXCEL (BTEC) Diploma: One of the following BTEC Diplomas: Aeronautical Engineering;