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Be part of the movement powering a net zero future.

As a WSP graduate in our Energy teams, you’ll help clients respond to one of the biggest challenges of our time: creating a more secure, resilient and lower-carbon energy future. Across our Energy disciplines, our teams support the full lifecycle of energy infrastructure, from strategy, feasibility and technical modelling through to design, delivery, asset management and long-term operational support. Whether you’re interested in renewables, hydrogen, carbon capture, power systems, transmission and distribution networks, gas infrastructure or whole-system energy strategy, you’ll contribute to work that helps accelerate the journey to net zero.

You’ll join multidisciplinary teams, contribute to projects and learn from experienced specialists who will support your development. You could be helping clients make investment decisions, connect renewable generation, modernise networks, re-purpose existing assets or design infrastructure that supports emerging low-carbon technologies.

These opportunities could be a strong fit if you’re studying, or have graduated with, a relevant degree in a range of Engineering degrees as specified. As well as Renewable Energy, Mathematics, Physics, and Economics.

We’ll be looking for candidates who are curious, collaborative and flexible, with an interest in creating value for clients and taking ownership of their actions and development. 
Below you can explore the graduate opportunities available across Energy. Each pathway offers a different perspective on how we help clients make better decisions, solve their challenges and deliver long-term value.

Explore our opportunities

Explore the pathways below to understand what your day-to-day work could involve, the projects you could support and the type of team that may suit your skills and interests.

Links to apply to a specific role are located within the associated dropdown.

Energy TransitionEnergy AdvisoryNetworks (T&D)Power Generation & GasHow to apply

Energy Transition

Energy Transition brings together our Thermal Transition and Renewable Power Generation teams, supporting clients as they move from conventional energy systems towards lower-carbon solutions. As a graduate, you could work on feasibility studies, technical advice, engineering design, process modelling, construction support and operational considerations across the UK and overseas. It’s a chance to see how complex energy ideas become practical, deliverable projects that support a more sustainable future.

Graduate Energy Thermal Transition

Degree backgrounds considered:

  • MEng Electrical Engineering
  • MEng Civil Engineering
  • MEng Mechanical Engineering

Our Thermal Transition team works at the heart of the shift from conventional power generation towards lower-carbon and renewable solutions. The team supports clients across electricity generation, gas transmission, hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, and energy distribution. For graduates, this means exposure to a broad mix of technical challenges, from rethinking existing assets to supporting emerging technologies that will play a role in the UK’s future energy system.

What you could be involved in day to day

  • Develop mechanical and process deliverables, such as pipeline routing, piping design, CCGT specifications, steam systems, carbon capture integration and plant layouts.
  • Review UK and international standards to help ensure designs are compliant, robust and future-ready.
  • Prepare drawings, specifications, project documentation and 3D models that support technical delivery.
  • Contribute to structural analysis and design, primarily across steel and concrete structures.
  • Support proposals, collaborate with peers, engage with clients and attend site visits or inspections on new and existing assets.

You may enjoy this team if you’re curious about how existing energy infrastructure can be adapted for a lower-carbon future. It could suit you if you like solving complex technical problems, working across different engineering disciplines and seeing how early-stage ideas develop into real projects. You’ll need to be comfortable learning quickly, asking questions and collaborating with specialists, clients and project teams.

Help deliver projects that matter

As part of Thermal Transition, you could contribute to projects such as carbon capture plant integration, green hydrogen generation, CCGT developments, upgrades to gas networks, pipeline routing studies, pumped hydro inspections and the analysis and design of buildings and structures linked to power and distribution projects. These projects help clients make practical progress towards cleaner, more reliable and more resilient energy systems.

Graduate Renewable Power Generation

Degree backgrounds considered:

  • MSc Renewable Energy

Our Renewable Power Generation team supports clients across offshore wind, onshore wind, solar and battery storage. The team combines technical, commercial and multidisciplinary engineering expertise to support projects across their lifecycle, helping clients understand options, manage risk and deliver renewable energy solutions that can support the transition to net zero. As a graduate, you’ll learn how renewable energy projects are planned, designed, connected and delivered in ways that balance technical performance, commercial priorities, environmental considerations and stakeholder needs.

What you could be involved in day to day

  • Support renewable energy projects through design, delivery, technical coordination, client engagement and stakeholder management.
  • Help prepare feasibility inputs, technical advice and project documentation across wind, solar and battery storage projects.
  • Contribute to proposals and develop an understanding of business development, commercial drivers and whole-life project considerations.
  • Work with engineers and specialists from different disciplines to understand how renewable energy assets connect into wider energy systems.
  • Get involved in service-line initiatives that support growth, innovation and improved project delivery.

You may enjoy this team if you’re excited by renewable energy technologies and want to understand how projects move from concept to operation. It could be a good fit if you enjoy working with data, technical detail, people and place-based constraints, and if you’re motivated by projects that help expand access to cleaner energy while balancing practical delivery considerations.

Help deliver projects that matter

As part of Renewable Power Generation, you could help support solar PV, battery storage, onshore wind, offshore wind and associated transmission projects in the UK and overseas. Your work could contribute to renewable generation, energy storage and grid-connected solutions that help clients increase clean energy capacity and support a more sustainable energy future.

Energy Advisory (Asset Management and Advisory)

Energy Advisory brings together Asset Management, Power Systems Advisory and Energy Strategy Consulting. These teams help clients understand how energy systems are changing, make better investment decisions, improve the performance of existing assets and plan the infrastructure needed for a secure, affordable and low-carbon future.

As a graduate, you could work with national and international clients on technical, strategic and data-led projects. You’ll be part of a multidisciplinary team with engineering, modelling, commercial and advisory expertise, giving you the chance to build a broad understanding of how decisions about energy infrastructure are made.

Graduate Energy Strategy Consulting

Degree backgrounds considered:

  • MEng Engineering
  • Mathematics
  • Physics or Economics

Our Energy Strategy Consulting team helps governments, regulators, utilities and organisations make confident decisions about the future of energy. As energy systems respond to rising demand, ageing infrastructure, climate targets and new technologies, our clients need clear, practical advice that brings together technical, regulatory and commercial thinking. As a graduate, you could help turn complex energy challenges into strategies, roadmaps and business cases that support investment, improve resilience and accelerate the transition to a lower-carbon future.

What you could be involved in day to day

  • Supporting local area energy system strategies, visions and roadmaps that help places plan for net zero.
  • Helping assess how energy networks, generation, demand, storage and low-carbon technologies can work together in future energy systems.
  • Contributing to techno-economic analysis, business case modelling, cost-benefit analysis and investment planning.
  • Supporting network regulation and policy projects, including price control reviews, business planning and performance benchmarking for energy utilities.
  • Helping with power market analysis, market design, electricity price forecasting and security of supply assessments.
  • Researching policy, regulation, technology developments and market trends to inform client advice.
  • Preparing clear outputs such as reports, presentations, data analysis summaries and workshop materials for clients and project teams.

You may enjoy this team if you’re interested in the bigger picture of how energy systems are changing and want to work where engineering, policy, economics and sustainability come together. It could be a good fit if you enjoy analytical thinking, research, problem solving and turning complex information into clear recommendations. You may also enjoy this team if you’re motivated by helping clients make practical decisions that can reduce emissions, improve reliability and unlock investment in future energy infrastructure.

Help deliver projects that matter

As part of Energy Strategy Consulting, you could contribute to projects that help organisations plan for net zero, strengthen energy security and make better investment decisions. Your work could support local energy planning, regulatory strategy, market reform, infrastructure investment cases and advisory projects that help clients navigate uncertainty. From early-stage strategy through to practical implementation, you’ll help provide the evidence, analysis and insight needed to shape a more resilient, affordable and low-carbon energy future.

Graduate Power Systems Consulting

Degree backgrounds considered:

  • MEng Electrical Engineering
  • MEng Mechanical Engineering

Our Power Systems team plays a hands-on role in shaping the future of electricity networks. You’ll support projects that help connect renewable energy, battery storage and emerging technologies to the grid, directly contributing to the transition to net zero. As a graduate, you could gain experience across power system studies, grid connection support, network innovation, technical modelling and client advisory work. You’ll learn how electrical networks behave, how new generation impacts the system, and how detailed analysis can support safe, reliable and efficient energy infrastructure.

What you could be involved in day to day

  • Supporting the delivery of power system studies, including load flow, fault level, stability, harmonic, power quality, protection coordination and transient analysis.
  • Helping assess grid connection options for renewable energy and storage projects.
  • Contributing to technical reports and client presentations.
  • Supporting project proposals and bid documents.
  • Learning to use specialist power system software such as DIgSILENT PowerFactory, PSS/E, ETAP or PSCAD.
  • Collaborating with multidisciplinary project teams.
  • Supporting stakeholder and client meetings.
  • Reviewing modelling outputs, researching emerging technologies and understanding the regulations that shape how electricity networks operate.

You may enjoy this team if you’re interested in electricity networks, renewable energy, modelling and solving complex technical problems. It could be a strong fit if you like analytical work, enjoy understanding how systems interact, and want to see how engineering studies influence real projects. You may also enjoy this team if you’re motivated by the energy transition and want to help create a smarter, greener and more resilient grid that can support growing demand, new technologies and the shift to low-carbon power.

Help deliver projects that matter

As part of Power Systems, you could help deliver projects that support renewable energy connections, battery storage schemes, network innovation and grid code compliance. Your work could contribute to stability analysis for low-carbon technology connections, harmonic studies for large solar PV and battery energy storage systems, technical support for grid code compliance testing, and studies that help clients understand the impact of new generation and demand on the electricity network. From concept through to operation, you’ll help provide the technical insight needed to connect cleaner energy, strengthen grid resilience and support the UK’s journey to net zero.

Networks (Transmission and Distribution)

Our Networks team helps design and deliver the transmission and distribution infrastructure that moves electricity safely and reliably from where it is generated to where it is needed. As demand grows and more renewable energy connects to the grid, this work is critical to creating a secure, resilient and lower-carbon energy system. The team brings together expertise across substations, overhead lines, underground cables, HVDC, FACTS devices and wider network solutions.

Graduate Networks (Transmission and Distribution)

Degree backgrounds considered:

  • MEng Electrical Engineering
  • MEng Mechanical Engineering

Working as a Graduate in Energy Networks means contributing to the engineering and delivery of critical infrastructure that will enable the UK’s transition to a net zero economy. You could help design robust power networks that support the integration of clean energy, improve system resilience and deliver long-term benefits for communities, businesses and the wider economy.

What you could be involved in day to day

  • Engineering Design Support: Assisting senior engineers with the design of electrical and civil components for transmission and distribution projects, including substations, overhead lines, and underground cable routes.
  • Feasibility Studies: Contributing to initial project assessments by conducting site surveys, analysing data, and helping to identify the most effective and sustainable engineering solutions.
  • Technical Reporting: Preparing and compiling technical reports, drawings, and specifications that document design choices, calculations, and project progress for clients like National Grid.
  • Site Visits and Inspections: Gaining hands-on experience by visiting project sites to survey existing infrastructure, monitor construction progress, and ensure work is being carried out to the required specifications and safety standards.

You may enjoy this team if you’re motivated by strengthening the performance, resilience and sustainability of the UK’s critical energy infrastructure. Working as a Graduate in this team means contributing to exciting projects in a dynamic field, supported by WSP’s UK heritage of over 100 years. You’ll work on landmark programmes such as National Grid’s Great Grid Upgrade, helping modernise the network and support a smarter, greener and more reliable route to net zero.

Help deliver projects that matter

As a Graduate in Energy Networks, you could help deliver landmark projects that strengthen and modernise the UK’s electricity infrastructure. You may support National Grid’s Great Grid Upgrade, projects that expand EV charging networks, power supply for HS2, and grid connections for large-scale battery energy storage systems. Working across technical design, project support and multidisciplinary teams, you’ll contribute to practical, high-impact projects that help build a smarter, greener and more resilient energy network.

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Power Generation & Gas

Our Power Generation & Gas team supports clients as the sector moves towards lower-carbon solutions, using deep experience in gas infrastructure, power generation, hydrogen and carbon capture to help shape the next generation of energy projects. The team works with industry and government clients to develop safe, practical and resilient solutions across existing assets and emerging technologies.

As a graduate, you could be involved across feasibility, FEED, conceptual design and detailed design stages, helping clients make informed decisions, build business resilience and implement low-carbon solutions that can have a positive impact for people, communities and the environment.

Graduate Power Generation & Gas

Degree backgrounds considered:

  • MEng Mechanical Engineering
  • MSc Petroleum Engineering
  • MEng Pipeline Engineering
  • MEng Chemical Engineering
  • MEng Process Engineering

What you could be involved in day to day

  • Preparing clear technical reports, calculations and project documentation to support design decisions and client deliverables. 
  • Developing specifications, drawings and supporting information for different project stages, from feasibility through to detailed design. 
  • Assisting engineers with technical tasks, design reviews and problem-solving across live energy projects. 
  • Coordinating project inputs and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to support efficient project delivery.

You may enjoy this team if you’re motivated by solving complex energy challenges and supporting clients through the transition to lower-carbon solutions. Working as a Graduate in this team would mean undertaking interesting projects in the growing energy transition space, contributing across feasibility, FEED, conceptual and detailed design stages. You’ll join a collaborative team where you can build technical confidence, support resilient and sustainable energy infrastructure, and help deliver practical solutions that make a positive impact for clients, communities and the environment.

Help deliver projects that matter

As part of Power Generation & Gas, you could help deliver projects involving gas pipeline and above-ground installation design, hydrogen and CO₂ pipeline routing, asset health design works, carbon capture infrastructure and future-facing gas network programmes. You’ll contribute to technical solutions that support safe, resilient and lower-carbon energy systems, while gaining experience across the design stages that turn early concepts into deliverable infrastructure.

How to apply

To apply, please complete the application form in full and answer all role-specific questions. If successful at this stage, you will be invited to complete an online assessment, which includes a cognitive assessment, personality questionnaire and situational judgement test. All stages are essential parts of our early careers recruitment process.

We review applications on a rolling basis and may progress candidates before the closing date, so we recommend applying as early as possible.

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Placements with WSP

Each year we offer a number of paid Summer and Year in Industry placements including Scholarships within Water & Energy. Further details can be found if you follow the link below. 

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