2026 Graduate Programme – Transport & Infrastructure – Intelligent Infrastructure
21 hours ago
Birmingham
JOB DESCRIPTION What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you. We are looking for graduates for our Intelligent Infrastructure team, who have a flexible approach and an appetite to learn in a leading Engineering and Professional Advisory services consultancy. We want you to enjoy working in a collaborative environment where you can apply your skills working for a diverse range of clients and projects. We are recruiting for Graduates in the following services and locations: • Operations and Safety - Policy Monitoring & Evaluation: London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Guildford, • Operations and Safety - Tunnel Systems & Operations: Guildford, Bristol or London, • Operations and Safety - Human Centered Design: Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, • Systems & Infrastructure: London, Manchester, Bristol, • Sizewell Nuclear Power Plant, • HS2, • National Highways, • Local Authority active travel schemes and Metro link projects, • A303 Stonehenge tunnel, • A83 'Rest and Be Thankful' debris flow shelter, • Dartford Tunnel, • Safety and Cyber Security: safety risk assessments, safe systems approaches and understanding user error as a consequence rather than a cause of incidents., • Operations: transport operations including station and stop designs, signalling, driving behaviours, digital design, and measures influencing behaviour., • Applying and integrating key principles of human factors, ergonomics and behaviour change to transportation or infrastructure projects and policies., • Undertaking research design, execution and reporting, covering quantitative and qualitative research., • Undertaking user identification and profiling including behavioural insights., • Undertaking Human Factors assessments such as task analysis and in-depth risk analysis to inform infrastructure scheme and operational designs., • Supporting delivery of a multi-discipline monitoring and evaluation project, ranging from assessing evaluability, to scoping, to designing monitoring and evaluation frameworks, to delivering evaluations of local and national transport policies., • Undertaking interviews with stakeholders to build an understanding of an intervention's performance., • Reviewing, analysing and interpreting data to provide expert monitoring and evaluation advice to support our Client's objectives., • Collaborating with resources from other internal specialist WSP teams to bring in subject matter expertise., • Preparing design drawings and design documentation., • Preparing for client and stakeholder meetings and workshops., • Undertaking industry research., • Working with subject matter experts across different disciplines to draw in their technical expertise to scheme delivery., • Preparing for and attending sites with colleagues to undertake inspections., • Delivering technology and infrastructure solutions to manage road networks., • Helping to deliver the future strategy of technology used to control traffic., • Undertaking data gap analysis activities., • Dealing with general day to day project administration tasks., • Assisting with stakeholder engagement., • Supporting various reporting requirements including carbon assessments and cost / benefit calculations., • Candidates must complete the application form in full answering all specific questions. This requirement applies to all candidates, inclusive of their background. Successful completion of this stage is mandatory. Candidates who pass this initial stage, will then be required to complete an online skill enabler assessment. Both the application form and the skill enabler assessment are essential parts of the early career’s recruitment process., • You'll be looking to start work in either April or September 2026, • You’ll have a passion for engineering and consulting, • An understanding of complex and safety-critical systems, • You’ll have a desire for the built environment, infrastructure and design systems, • You'll have an enthusiasm for creativity and a drive to solve problems #WeAreWSP Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.