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 August 02, 2023

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AECOM is built to deliver a better world, and as such AECOM graduates leave a positive, lasting impact on people and the planet.

AECOM's Graduate Programme UK & Ireland (Project Management)

AECOM's graduate project managers are a key interface between the client, design team, consultants, contractors and other project stakeholders, working at all stages of the project from initial concept right through to construction and operation of the building.

For example, AECOM graduates have worked with LinkedIn Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland to provide programme and project management services for the five-storey building, designed to create opportunities for staff and visitors to socialise, collaborate, and exchange ideas.

Graduates have also assisted the Guys Cancer Centre London, acting as the Trust's NEC3 project and cost managers from outline business case through to project completion.

Graduates have helped the Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus at the University of Bristol to deliver multi-disciplinary design, from cost and project management through to crowd modelling.

AECOM graduates have also worked with The National University of Ireland, Galway, Student Accommodation Programme, helping to provide project and cost management services on the delivery of over 1000 student bedrooms.

Flexible working and a structured training programme

Students can use AECOM's flexible working to find a work/life balance that works best for them, meaning their evenings and weekends can be a time to relax.

AECOM supports development and professional qualification through its structured training programme.

Graduates get to work for the world's most trusted infrastructure firm, embedding environmental and social principles into everything they do, while giving something back to national and local communities.

A wide range of graduate opportunities

AECOM has over 30 offices across the UK and Ireland, with around 47,000 employees worldwide, serving clients in around 150 countries.

AECOM is a hugely diverse organisation with graduates in more than 35 different disciplines across the UK and Ireland.

AECOM tends to have graduate opportunities in the following teams:

  • Transportation Engineering and Planning: Highways Engineering, Traffic Engineering, Bridge Engineering, Rail Engineering (Civil and M&E), Aviation Engineering (Infrastructure), Transport and Development Planning, Strategic Consulting, Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Building Engineering and Consulting: Building Services and Public Health Engineering, Structural Engineering, Fire Engineering, Acoustics Engineering, Building Physics Engineering, IT and Communications Engineering, Process and Automation Engineering, Sustainability Consulting
  • Surveying and Project Management: Quantity Surveying, Building Surveying, Project Management
  • Environment: Remediation, EIA, Air Quality, GIS, Ecology, Stakeholder Engagement, Sustainability, Acoustics
  • Water Engineering and Consulting: Water Engineering and Consulting (including waste, resources, dams, flooding, coastal, utilities), Ports and Marine Engineering, Hydrogeology and Groundwater Engineering
  • Geotechnical and Tunnelling: Geotechnical Engineering, Tunnelling Engineering
  • Design and Planning: Workplace Interior Design, Urban Planning and Design, Town Planning, Development Economics and Regeneration, Workplace Strategy Consulting
  • Architecture: Architecture (P1&2), Landscape Architecture
  • Power: Nuclear (Structural), Transmission & Distribution, Thermal, Renewables

Discover more about making an impact in a graduate career with AECOM.


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