Degree backgrounds considered: 

• MEng Civil or Geotechnical Engineering
• MSc Soil Mechanics
• Engineering Geology

In our Geotechnical Engineering team, you will explore how soil, rock, groundwater and ground conditions influence the design and delivery of major projects. As a graduate, you will support work that helps manage ground risk, inform low-carbon design choices and create the foundations for infrastructure, buildings and communities to thrive.

What you could be involved with day to day

Every project is different, so your role could take you from desk-based analysis to site visits and multidisciplinary design meetings. You may be involved in: 

• Supporting ground investigations and helping interpret ground conditions using field observations, borehole records, laboratory data and digital tools.
• Developing ground models that help engineers understand how soil, rock and groundwater may affect a project.
• Assisting with the design of foundations, retaining walls, slopes, earthworks and other geotechnical structures.
• Learning about ground improvement techniques that can help manage risk and support safer, more sustainable construction.
• Analysing and presenting data for site characterisation, design support and technical reporting.
• Preparing geotechnical reports, drawings, risk assessments and design documentation with support from experienced engineers and specialists.
• Collaborating with planners, civil engineers, structural engineers, environmental specialists and clients to help solve complex project challenges.

You may enjoy this team if you’re curious about how the natural world shapes the way we design and build. This team could be a great fit if you enjoy problem-solving, working with data, asking questions and applying technical thinking to real-world challenges. It may also suit you if you like variety in your work, from digital modelling and analysis through to site-based learning, collaboration and seeing how engineering decisions influence projects on the ground. 

Help deliver projects that matter  

As part of our Geotechnical Engineering team, you could contribute to projects across renewable energy, transport infrastructure, housing, marine environments, tunnelling, commercial development, healthcare, data centres and grid reinforcement. Whether helping to assess ground risk for a new route, supporting the design of resilient foundations or contributing to low-carbon solutions, your work will help create places and infrastructure that communities rely on.

Degree backgrounds considered:

• MSc Environmental Science
• Earth Sciences
• Geoscience with an MSc in Contaminated Land Assessment and Remediation
• Geology
• Hydrogeology

Our Contaminated Land team helps clients understand, assess and manage environmental risks in soil, groundwater and land affected by previous use. This could include brownfield sites, former industrial land, infrastructure corridors, water schemes or development projects where understanding ground conditions is essential. You’ll be part of a supportive Ground & Water team that brings together geo-environmental specialists, hydrogeologists, engineers, risk assessors and project managers to provide practical, safe and sustainable advice.

What you could be involved in day to day

• Researching the history of sites and preparing Phase 1 desk studies.
• Supporting Phase 2 site investigations, including planning, supervision, soil sampling, soil logging and environmental monitoring.
• Helping collect, manage and interpret data from site investigations, laboratory testing and field observations.
• Contributing to human health and water environment risk assessments.
• Checking factual ground investigation information and building confidence in preparing technical reports.
• Working with project teams, clients and subcontractors to help deliver work safely, efficiently and to a high standard.
• Learning how remediation strategies are developed to manage contamination and support future site use.

You may enjoy this team if you’re curious about how past land uses affect today’s environment, and if you like combining science, fieldwork and problem-solving. This team could suit you if you enjoy being outdoors as well as working with data and reports, have strong attention to detail, and are interested in topics such as geology, hydrogeology, environmental science, chemistry, geography, geoscience or sustainable development. Or if you want to see how investigation and evidence can help unlock safer, more sustainable places.

Help deliver projects that matter

Your work could support major infrastructure, regeneration and environmental improvement projects, from ground investigations for nationally significant schemes to the remediation of former gasworks, petrochemical or industrial sites. You could help provide the evidence needed to make informed decisions, reduce environmental risk, protect water resources and support the safe redevelopment of land for future communities.

Degree backgrounds considered:

• Demolition Management
• Construction Management
• Health, Safety and Environment
• Engineering

Our Demolition and Decommissioning team supports clients through the safe planning, management and delivery of complex projects where assets, buildings or industrial facilities are no longer in operation, or need to be adapted, dismantled or cleared. Projects can range from large power stations and high-hazard industrial sites to smaller specialist plants within live operational environments. As a graduate, you’ll learn how safety, technical planning, environmental management, contractor coordination and clear communication all come together on projects where conditions can change quickly.

What you could be involved in day to day

• Spending time on site to observe works, attend briefings and understand how demolition and decommissioning activities are planned and delivered.
• Supporting the monitoring and reporting of contractor activities.
• Helping gather site information, survey assets and build an understanding of project constraints.
• Assisting with project planning, programming and the coordination of works.
• Communicating with clients, contractors, regulators and internal project teams.
• Supporting health, safety and environmental good practice on projects with complex risks.
• Building knowledge over time so you can progress from observation and reporting toward supervision, coordination and project management.

You may enjoy this team if you like practical, site-based work and want to understand how complex assets are safely taken out of use, dismantled or prepared for future redevelopment. This team could suit you if you’re adaptable, confident working with different people, comfortable travelling for projects and interested in areas such as construction management, demolition management, engineering, health and safety, environmental management or industrial sites. You’ll need to be curious, resilient and ready to learn in dynamic project environments.

Help deliver projects that matter

Your work could help clients safely decommission and demolish major assets, including thermal power stations, high-hazard industrial plants, refineries and nuclear-related facilities. These projects matter because they help manage legacy infrastructure responsibly, reduce risk, support environmental improvement and prepare sites for their next use. You’ll see first-hand how careful planning, collaboration and safety-led delivery can shape the future of complex sites.

Degree backgrounds considered:  

• Mathematics and Physics
• Air Quality
• Science related backgrounds

Air quality has a direct influence on people, places and sensitive ecosystems. In our Air Quality team, you’ll help clients understand emissions, pollutants and environmental change, while developing your skills in modelling, monitoring and assessment. As a graduate, you’ll learn how technical evidence supports planning, permitting, environmental impact assessment and responsible decision-making. 

You’ll work with colleagues who combine scientific expertise with practical project delivery. This could include supporting work on air dispersion modelling, air quality monitoring, environmental impact assessments, regulatory permitting and health risk communication. You may also have opportunities to learn about odour assessment, emerging technology, AI, big data and how innovation is changing environmental analysis. 

We strongly encourage our team members to get involved with the Institute of Air Quality Management. Our Technical Working Group, led by our Head of Profession, offers a wealth of learning opportunities, including monthly topical presentations and focused, individualised learning sessions. 

What you could be involved in day to day 

• Gaining hands-on experience with advanced dispersion modelling tools such as ADMS and ADMS-Roads.
• Designing and implementing ambient air quality monitoring plans.
• Helping prepare bids, quotes and tenders that explain how our team can support clients with air quality challenges.
• Collaborating with internal and external clients, project teams, and Local Authorities.
• Collating and analysing data to help identify patterns, risks and practical recommendations.
• Preparing clear reports that communicate findings, evidence and recommendations for clients and project teams.

You may enjoy this team if you are curious about science, data and the link between environmental conditions and human health. This team could suit you if you like problem-solving, interpreting information, using technical tools and explaining complex findings clearly to different audiences. 

Help deliver projects that matter 

Your work could influence how developments are designed, how impacts are managed and how clients protect communities and ecosystems. From monitoring plans to modelling outputs and technical reports, you’ll contribute to evidence that helps projects move forward responsibly.

Degree backgrounds considered:

• Landscape Architecture
• MA Master planning
• MA Architecture

Landscape Architecture is about shaping places that people use, move through and enjoy, while responding to the needs of communities, climate and nature. In our Landscape Architecture team, you’ll work across landscape design, assessment and urban design, supporting projects at different stages and developing your skills in design thinking, technical reporting, assessment and visual communication. 

What you could be involved in day to day

• Providing landscape consultancy services and technical input with support from senior colleagues.
• Contributing written and graphic input to strategic studies, guidance documents and technical reports.
• Supporting Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment and Townscape and Visual Impact Assessment reports.
• Using tools such as AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Suite to communicate ideas clearly and visually.

You may enjoy this team if you are interested in design, places, people and the environment. This team could suit you if you like combining creativity with analysis, using visuals to communicate ideas, and thinking about how landscapes, streets and public spaces can work better for communities and nature.

Help deliver projects that matter

Your work could help shape greener, healthier and more accessible places, from active travel routes and town centre public realm to major transport and renewable energy projects. You’ll contribute to design and assessment work that supports better outcomes for communities, clients and the natural environment.

Degree backgrounds considered:

• Cultural Heritage/Heritage
• Archaeology or related qualifications

Our Cultural Heritage and Archaeology team helps clients understand how development interacts with the historic environment. As a graduate, you’ll explore evidence from maps, archives, field visits and heritage records, helping project teams identify constraints, understand significance and develop advice that balances change with the protection and appreciation of heritage assets.

What you could be involved in day to day

• Analysis of historic maps.
• Site visits to look at the setting of a scheduled monument.
• Preparing heritage baselines for reports.
• Carrying out research and GIS mapping.
• Producing, or providing support for, archaeological desk-based assessments and heritage statements. 

You may enjoy this team if you are interested in history, archaeology, research, places and how the past informs future development. This team could suit you if you enjoy investigating evidence, writing clearly, visiting sites, using maps and GIS, and thinking critically about how projects interact with historic landscapes and buildings.

Help deliver projects that matter

You could support major infrastructure and development projects by helping teams understand heritage constraints, prepare robust assessments and identify ways for proposals to respect and respond to historic landscapes, buildings and archaeological assets.

Degree backgrounds considered:

• Natural Science(s)
• Biodiversity
• Marine Biology or related
• Environmental Sciences

Our Nature Advisory team helps organisations understand their relationship with the natural world and identify practical ways to respond. Working at the interface between environmental compliance and nature-focused sustainability strategy, the team supports clients with natural capital, biodiversity, nature finance, nature reporting and disclosures, and organisational nature strategy. As a graduate, you’ll help turn complex environmental information into insight that supports better decisions for nature, communities and businesses.

What you could be involved in day to day

• Analysing biodiversity, natural capital and environmental data to support client decisions.
• Supporting and participating in client workshops to explore nature-related risks, opportunities and priorities.
• Preparing reports, briefings and recommendations on biodiversity, nature strategy and policy requirements.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues across technical disciplines and using geospatial analysis systems to bring together environmental insight.

You may enjoy this team if you are interested in biodiversity, nature recovery, sustainability, policy and how organisations can make better decisions for the natural world. This team could suit you if you like working with data, engaging with clients, collaborating across disciplines and translating complex environmental ideas into practical recommendations.

Help deliver projects that matter

Your work could help clients respond to evolving nature policy, such as Biodiversity Net Gain, and align with wider international approaches and standards. You’ll contribute to projects that help organisations understand their impact on nature, manage risk, identify opportunities and support more nature-positive outcomes.

Degree backgrounds considered:  

• Acoustics & Sound Engineering 
• Maths & Physics 

Our Acoustics team helps clients understand and manage how noise and vibration affect the built and natural environment. Working alongside experienced acousticians, engineers and environmental specialists, you could support projects spanning homes, hospitals, schools and universities, workplaces, transport networks, industrial facilities and mixed-use developments. From early planning through to detailed design and delivery, you’ll help combine environmental monitoring, specialist modelling, technical assessment and acoustic design to turn technical evidence into practical solutions that create more comfortable places for people to live, work, learn and travel. 

What you could be involved in day to day 

• Planning and carrying out environmental monitoring and site surveys, then analysing the data and modelling how sound and vibration may behave.
• Supporting noise and vibration assessments and helping shape acoustic designs for buildings, developments, infrastructure, and indoor and outdoor spaces.
• Turning technical findings into clear reports and evidence for planning submissions.
• Working with colleagues across different disciplines to develop practical, integrated solutions and follow projects through planning, design and delivery while building your technical expertise. 

You may enjoy this team if you’re curious about the way sound influences people and places, and you enjoy combining analytical thinking with practical problem-solving. You may like exploring evidence, asking thoughtful questions and working with others to find solutions that balance technical requirements with the needs of clients, communities and the environment. 

Help deliver projects that matter 

Your work could help create quieter homes, more comfortable learning and healthcare environments, better workplaces and transport infrastructure that considers the people and communities around it. By helping clients understand acoustic constraints and make informed decisions, you will contribute to places that are healthier, more sustainable and designed around how people experience them. 

Degree backgrounds considered:

• Civil Engineering (with hydrology and hydraulics modules)
• Geography (with hydrology modules), Geochemistry or Hydrogeology MSc
• Earth Sciences or Environmental Sciences MSc
• Geoscience or a similar subject with geochemistry coursework / thesis or hydrogeology with groundwater modules
• Water Resource Engineering

As a graduate, you could contribute to international projects across the mining life cycle, working alongside specialists in mine water, mine waste, geotechnics, hydrology, hydrogeology, geochemistry, engineering design and environmental assessment. 

What you could be involved in day to day

Your work could span hydrology, water resources engineering, hydrogeology and geochemistry, giving you exposure to how water moves through mining environments, how it interacts with rock and soil, and how it can be managed responsibly.

• Developing hydrological, hydrogeological, water balance, water quality and geochemical models.
• Supporting water management plans, drainage strategies and water engineering solutions for mine sites.
• Helping assess groundwater conditions through monitoring, borehole supervision, well installation and aquifer testing.
• Collecting, validating, analysing and interpreting field, laboratory and monitoring data.
• Using industry software and modelling tools to understand water movement, mine inflows and potential environmental impacts.
• Preparing technical notes, drawings, reports and recommendations with support from senior colleagues.
• Taking part in UK and international site visits, where required, to support field investigations and project delivery.

You may enjoy this team if you are curious about how natural systems work and want to apply science, data and engineering to practical environmental challenges. This team could suit you if you enjoy problem-solving, fieldwork, analysing information, using modelling tools and working collaboratively to find solutions that balance operational needs with environmental protection. 

Help deliver projects that matter

As a graduate in our Mine Water team, you could support projects that help clients understand, manage and reduce water-related risks, including Water balance models and water management plans for mining organisations in the UK and Europe. Dam break modelling and impact assessments for facilities in Europe. Operational and closure water quality modelling for mines around the world including Passive mine water treatment for historic abandoned metal mines. Hydrogeological field programmes for feasibility studies, monitoring and mine expansion assessments, and options assessments to help mining clients reduce water use across global operations.

Degree backgrounds considered:

• Civil or Geotechnical Engineering MEng
• Civil Engineering (with hydrology and hydraulics modules) or Engineering Hydraulics MEng

Our Mine Waste team helps clients manage tailings, waste rock and other mine waste facilities safely and responsibly. The team works across the full mining life cycle, from early-stage studies and design through to operations, closure and long-term stewardship. As a graduate, you will see how geotechnical engineering, risk management, environmental thinking and practical design come together to protect communities, support responsible mining and improve long-term outcomes.

What you could be involved in day to day 

As a Graduate Geotechnical/Mine Waste Engineer, you will contribute to the safe and sustainable management of mine waste facilities across regions including the Nordics, Eastern Europe and Africa. From tailings storage systems to geotechnical investigations, you will help develop solutions that manage risk, support responsible operations and protect people and the environment. 

• Contributing to the design of tailings management facilities, water impoundments, waste rock dumps and other geotechnical structures.
• Supporting projects from conceptual design through to detailed design, engineering, construction support and ongoing asset management.
• Applying soil mechanics, geosynthetic materials engineering, ground improvement and civil engineering principles to real mining challenges.
• Using 2D and 3D modelling, finite element analysis and limit equilibrium methods to support engineering design.
• Preparing technical reports, drawings, specifications, cost estimates, bills of quantities and risk registers.
• Working with project managers to deliver tasks safely, on time, within budget and to a high technical standard.
• Travelling within the UK and internationally, when required, to support site work, client meetings and construction of WSP designs.
• Engaging with WSP’s national and international Mining networks and learning from specialists across different disciplines and regions.

You may enjoy this team if you are interested in geotechnical design, engineering problem-solving and the safe management of complex infrastructure. This team could suit you if you like applying technical principles to practical challenges, working with drawings and models, thinking about risk, and contributing to projects where safety, resilience and environmental responsibility are essential. 

Help deliver projects that matter

In this team, your work could support tailings and mine waste management projects across regions including the Nordics, Eastern Europe and Africa. You may help design tailings storage facilities, water impoundments, waste rock dumps and associated infrastructure, while contributing to risk-informed decisions that safeguard communities, workers and the environment. You could also support closure and rehabilitation studies that help clients plan responsibly for the long-term future of mining sites.