Graduate Engineer

Job Title: Graduate Engineer

Starting salary: £28,500 (Subject to 2025 review)

Shift pattern: Monday to Friday 8am – 4.30pm

Location: Olive Grove Depot, Sheffield, S2 3GE

Shape tomorrow’s world with Amey

With over 100 years of experience in managing critical infrastructure, we are committed to helping our clients operate efficient, safe and sustainable assets and infrastructure that people can be proud of. And we understand just how challenging it is, especially in the face of cost constraints and climate change.

Amey Transport Infrastructure stands as a beacon of engineering excellence in the UK, committed to inspiring change and enhancing the nation’s critical infrastructure. Join us to create a lasting, sustainable impact on society and future generations.

Why Choose Amey?

• Real Responsibilities: Dive into challenging projects from day one, working alongside experienced engineers on cutting-edge infrastructure designs.
• Support Network: You’ll be partnered with an internal mentor, a college mentor, and join a vibrant apprenticeship community.
• Career Development: Tailored career paths that grow with you, supported by mentors and a strong peer network.
• Generous Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, pension scheme, minimum 24 days holiday plus bank holidays, and flexible benefits like cycle-to-work and gym membership.
• Social Impact: Two Social Impact Days annually for volunteering and opportunities to support community initiatives.
• Wellbeing Focus: Access to mental health support, a 24/7 helpline, and wellbeing resources because your health matters.
• Modern Perks: Discounts on shopping, healthcare benefits, and more through our online voucher portal.

The Team and Role

Amey and Sheffield City Council are working together in partnership to upgrading and maintaining the condition of the city’s roads, pavements, streetlights, bridges, and other assets on or around the streets. It's the largest highway investment contract ever seen in Sheffield, worth over £2bn. It began in 2012 and runs for 25 years. The contract has already transformed 75 per cent of the city’s roads within the first five years, turning them from some of the worst in the country to the best. We are now maintaining the infrastructure at its improved standard for the remaining years of the contract.

We are improving and maintaining 1,180 miles of road, 2,050 miles of pavement, 68,000 streetlights, 36,000 highway trees, 28,000 street signs, 72,000 drainage gullies, 480 traffic signals, 18,000 items of street furniture, 2.9 million sqm of grass verges and over 600 bridges and highway structures.

We have around 500 operatives and office staff working round the clock on these services as well as getting involved in lots of community, charity, education, and social values work across the city region.

You will work alongside the team to:

• Comply with all relevant health and safety legislation
• Deliver works programme to the contract requirements
• Assist the Project Manager in directing design team members to ensure programme milestones are achieved
• Undertake design duties for highway remediation schemes
• Use construction solutions that cause minimum disruption to traffic
• Effectively planning and using supervisory resources
• Maintain procedures to achieve certainty of programme delivery
• Liaise with others regarding supervision of works, including establishing required resource levels
• Aid the Project Manager in controlling and deploying of all associated resources (Plant, Labour, Materials) and ensuring accurate allocation and recording
• Ensure that projects are delivered to time and budget in accordance with the client’s programme and financial commitment
• Help the Project Manager review design and contractual options during the design process
• Oversee measurement and valuation of work carried out

Where Could This lead?

Our Graduate Programme is designed to be rewarding, nurturing your professional development and personal growth.

Successfully completing the programme will propel you to a qualified Engineer within Amey, paving the way for a career into a management role.

What We Need From You

As a Graduate, other than your relevant degree, we don’t expect you to bring prior experience with you when you join us; we will give you all the skills and opportunities. We therefore keep our list of essential requirements to a minimum, but there are a few things needed to qualify for our programme:

• Minimum 2:2 Degree Engineering-related discipline
• Available to join the programme in September 2025
• We want you to share our passion and desire to develop yourself within this exciting area
• UK’s full driving licence.

Application Guidance

Amey is committed to Inclusion and Diversity.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview, if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.