Degree backgrounds considered: 

• MSc, MPlan or MA in Planning (RTPI accredited)
• MSc in Town or Urban Planning (RTPI accredited)
• Other town planning qualifications considered if they are RTPI accredited

Our Planning Consultancy teams help clients understand what is possible, navigate the planning system and bring forward places that respond to local needs. As a graduate, you’ll support projects across areas such as housing, mixed-use development, social infrastructure, employment space and regeneration, while building your understanding of policy, consultation, planning strategy and project delivery.

What you could be involved in day to day

As a Graduate Planner, you’ll get involved from day one, supporting planning research, applications, documents, meetings and project coordination while building confidence across different types of work.

• Prepare planning appraisals and research local and national policy.
• Draft planning statements, supporting documents and client advice notes.
• Support planning applications, appeals and project submissions.
• Coordinate with environmental and technical teams to bring different inputs together.
• Build project management skills through budgets, deadlines and client coordination.
• Work with communities, clients and colleagues to help shape sustainable development.

You may enjoy this team if you’re interested in how places are planned, designed and developed. You’ll enjoy bringing together research, policy and evidence to solve practical challenges, working with clients, communities and technical specialists to shape better outcomes. This team could suit you if you’re curious about development, regeneration, housing, social infrastructure or commercial projects, and enjoy writing, analysis and explaining complex information clearly.

Help deliver projects that matter

Your work could help create new homes, schools, hospitals, employment spaces and community facilities, while balancing the needs of people, places and the environment. Planning Consultancy gives you the chance to see how early decisions influence the long-term success of a project, and how good planning can leave a positive legacy for communities.

Degree backgrounds considered: 

• MSc, MPlan or MA in Planning (RTPI accredited)
• MSc in Town or Urban Planning (RTPI accredited)
• Other town planning qualifications considered if they are RTPI accredited

Infrastructure Planning is where strategy, policy and project delivery come together to help major infrastructure move from concept to construction. As a graduate, you could work on nationally significant projects, such as rail, energy, utilities or transport schemes, supporting the planning work needed to connect people, strengthen communities and create a more sustainable future.

What you could be involved in day to day

Your day-to-day work could include supporting planning applications, researching policy, preparing briefs, maintaining trackers and using mapping or data visualisation to support clear recommendations.

• Support the preparation, submission and management of planning applications for infrastructure projects.
• Gather and analyse information on transport, utilities, land use and environmental constraints.
• Draft planning statements, design and access statements and supporting documents under senior review.
• Research policy and prepare concise notes that help project teams make informed decisions.
• Coordinate stakeholder engagement, public exhibitions and workshops.
• Use GIS mapping and evidence logs to support recommendations and delivery.

You may enjoy this team if you’re interested in major infrastructure and how it supports everyday life. You’ll enjoy thinking about the bigger picture while also getting into the detail, working with technical specialists to understand constraints, and exploring how transport, energy, water, utilities and environmental planning come together on nationally significant projects. This team could suit you if you’re interested in stakeholder engagement, community impact and helping infrastructure move forward in a responsible, resilient and future-focused way.

Help deliver projects that matter

Infrastructure Planning is about helping critical projects move forward in a responsible and considered way. You could contribute to transport schemes that improve how people move, utility upgrades that strengthen essential services, energy proposals that support the transition to a lower-carbon future, or water projects that improve resilience for communities. Your work will help balance technical feasibility, environmental considerations and social value.

Degree backgrounds considered:

• Politics, arts or humanities-related degrees
• Communications
• Public Relations
• International Business
• English
• History
• Geography

As a graduate in our Planning Engagement team, you’ll help people understand and engage with projects that can shape where they live, work and travel. You’ll turn technical information into clear, accessible communications, support consultation activity and help project teams listen to feedback so schemes can develop in a responsible and informed way.

What you could be involved in day to day

No two days are the same in Planning Engagement. You might help plan a consultation event, draft content that explains a major infrastructure project in plain English, review feedback from community members or work with project teams to understand how engagement insights can inform future decisions.

• Write clear, easy-to understand communications that explain projects and their potential impact.
• Support engagement events, online consultations, surveys and other ways for people to ask questions and share feedback.
• Help capture, code and analyse feedback from stakeholders and communities.
• Prepare reports that present engagement findings in a useful and meaningful way for project teams and clients.
• Collaborate with colleagues across different disciplines, locations and project teams to deliver high-quality engagement activity.

You may enjoy this team if you enjoy communicating ideas clearly, working with different people and helping projects consider community and stakeholder perspectives. You might be interested in planning, communications, consultation, infrastructure, sustainability, social value, public engagement or the wider built environment. This team could suit you if you enjoy writing, listening, turning complex information into clear messages and building relationships with different stakeholders while adapting to changing project priorities.

Help deliver projects that matter

Because the team supports projects from across WSP, you could contribute to work that has a real connection to everyday life. This could include energy projects that help connect new and existing networks, transport schemes that improve how people move around the UK, environmental projects linked to water and waste, or specialist projects in sectors such as defence, aviation, development and sport.

Whatever the project, your work will help make engagement more accessible, inclusive and meaningful, supporting better conversations between clients, project teams, communities and stakeholders.

Degree backgrounds considered:

• MEng Civil or Structural Engineering
• Transport Planning 
• Geography

Development Planning helps shape how places grow and change by considering how new developments connect with people, communities, transport networks and the wider built environment. As a graduate, you could support projects from early feasibility through to planning consent, contributing to areas such as transport planning, access strategies, active travel, development layouts and impact assessments.

Development Infrastructure focuses on the technical design needed to make development possible, from roads, drainage and utilities to wider site servicing and enabling works. As a graduate, you could help develop practical engineering solutions for new communities, employment spaces, regeneration schemes and major developments, working closely with planners, environmental specialists, transport consultants and designers.

What you could be involved in day to day

Your work could combine strategic thinking with practical design, helping shape how new places are planned, accessed, serviced and delivered.

• Support early feasibility work to understand how a site could be accessed, developed and connected to its surroundings.
• Contribute to transport planning, mobility strategies, active travel proposals and development impact assessments.
• Review development layouts and consider how people, vehicles, services and infrastructure move through a place.
  
•  Support masterplanning, concept design and civil engineering design for new developments and infrastructure schemes.
• Help develop designs for highways, earthworks, drainage and utility services coordination.
• Prepare or contribute to calculations, drawings, reports, specifications, planning submissions and technical notes.

You may enjoy this team if you’re interested in how places are planned, designed and delivered, and how early decisions influence the way people live, work, travel and connect. This team could suit you if you enjoy combining big-picture thinking with practical problem-solving, whether that means considering how a development fits into its surroundings or helping design the infrastructure needed to support it.

Help deliver projects that matter

Our teams support projects that help unlock new places, improve essential infrastructure and respond to changing social, environmental and economic needs. As a graduate, you could contribute to projects across sectors such as defence, energy, residential development, logistics and distribution, while seeing how civil engineering design supports the wider planning and development process.

Examples of projects our teams have worked on include Omega Development in Warrington, one of the largest mixed-use developments in the North West, Monklands Hospital, the Eden Project and York Central. These projects show the variety of work you could be part of, from creating new communities and supporting healthcare infrastructure to shaping major regeneration and destination-led developments.

Degree backgrounds considered:

• Geography
• Estates and Land Management
• Environmental Science(s)

Our Land Consulting team helps major infrastructure projects move from early ideas through to delivery. As a Graduate Land Consultant, you’ll identify landowners, occupiers and others with a legal interest in land, helping project teams understand who is affected and how best to engage with them.

You’ll be part of a multidisciplinary environment that brings together land consultants, engineers, environmental specialists and planners, with access to a wider network of land expertise across the UK and Ireland.

What you could be involved in day to day

• Research land ownership, occupiers and other parties with legal interests in land.
• Interpret Land Registry titles and map land interests to support project decisions.
• Support landowner engagement, survey access agreements and consultation activity.
• Help build a clear picture of who needs to be consulted, informed or engaged as projects progress.
• Take part in site visits, meetings or travel where projects require first-hand understanding of land and stakeholders.

You may enjoy this team if you enjoy solving problems, working with maps and data, and understanding how land, communities and infrastructure interact. This team could suit you if you’re curious, organised and interested in land use, land ownership, planning, geography, environment or rural issues, and enjoy building professional relationships with a range of stakeholders.

Help deliver projects that matter

Graduates will contribute to the WSP Land Team delivery and success of high-profile infrastructure projects within the UK and Ireland business. You will be supporting projects in multiple sectors, including the Energy sector, where the team supports the development of critical infrastructure that is crucial for the Net Zero economy.

Degree backgrounds considered:

• Environmental Science(s)
• Environmental Management
• Environmental Consultancy
• Geography

As a graduate in Environmental Management & Assessment, you’ll help assess environmental and social risks, understand potential impacts and contribute to solutions that support better outcomes for people, places and the natural environment.

What you could be involved in day to day

Your day-to-day work could include supporting environmental assessments, coordinating technical inputs, reviewing project information and helping to prepare reports, trackers and evidence for planning and consenting decisions.

• Support Environmental Impact Assessment work across a range of sectors and project stages.
• Gather, review and interpret environmental information to help project teams understand risks and opportunities.
• Coordinate inputs from technical specialists and multi-disciplinary teams.
• Assist with reports, project documents, trackers and client deliverables.
• Help identify mitigation measures and practical solutions that support better environmental outcomes.
• Learn how environmental commitments are managed through planning, consenting, construction and operation.

You may enjoy this team if you’re curious about how major projects interact with the environment and communities around them. This team could suit you if you enjoy bringing different information together, thinking carefully about risks and impacts, and working with a wide range of specialists to solve complex problems. You may be interested in environmental assessment, sustainability, planning or infrastructure, and enjoy balancing detail with the bigger picture while working with data, evidence, reports and project information.

Help deliver projects that matter

Our teams work on projects that help shape the future of infrastructure, energy, transport, development and environmental management across the UK. As a graduate, you could support projects that improve connectivity, enable clean energy, strengthen national infrastructure, manage environmental risks and help clients make responsible decisions.

Whether you are contributing to an Environmental Impact Assessment, supporting a consent application, coordinating project information or tracking actions across a multi-disciplinary team, you’ll be helping projects progress in a way that is considered, responsible and future-focused.

Degree backgrounds considered:

• Project Management
• Geography
• STEM degrees considered

As a graduate in Environmental Consents Project Management, you’ll support the delivery of multidisciplinary environmental projects, helping project managers and technical leads keep work organised, coordinated and progressing safely, on time and within budget.

What you could be involved in day to day

Your day-to-day work could include supporting project planning, tracking actions, monitoring progress and helping multidisciplinary teams stay aligned.

• Assist project managers with project plans, schedules, risk registers and stakeholder registers.
• Support cost estimates, forecasts, invoices and spend tracking.
• Schedule meetings, take minutes and track actions.
• Monitor project progress and help identify risks or delays.
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary environmental teams, technical specialists and suppliers.
• Prepare project updates, trackers and reports that keep teams aligned.

You may enjoy this team if you like bringing structure to complex work and helping teams move towards a shared outcome. This team could suit you if you’re organised, collaborative and interested in how environmental projects are planned, coordinated and delivered. You’ll enjoy organising information, actions, deadlines and priorities, working with different people, keeping communication clear, balancing changing project needs and helping teams stay on track.

Help deliver projects that matter

In Environmental Management & Assessment, you could support projects that help clients understand environmental impacts, manage risks and make better decisions for people, places and nature.

You may help bring together evidence for Environmental Impact Assessments, working with specialists across topics such as ecology, landscape, water, air quality, noise, climate and heritage.

• Supporting assessment work for infrastructure, energy, transport and development projects.
• Helping identify environmental risks, opportunities and mitigation measures.
• Learning how environmental advice shapes planning, design and delivery decisions.