Graduate Structural Engineer - Edinburgh

Arup is a global consultancy with advisory and technical expertise across more than 150 disciplines, guiding, planning, and designing the future of the built environment. We recruit hundreds of graduates and students annually to help solve complex challenges.

The Opportunity

This role offers the chance to work on diverse projects, from major infrastructure to smaller alterations, all with the aim of shaping a better world. You will be part of a global network while being rooted in the local community and industry. The Edinburgh office provides an inclusive, supportive, and technically rigorous environment that prioritizes your learning, progress, and professional development towards qualification.

Your initial focus will be on learning the craft of structural engineering, shadowing experienced engineers, and contributing to early-stage projects. This includes designing buildings with a low carbon footprint.

Key Responsibilities

• Analysis: Performing structural calculations, modelling, and engineering analysis using both computer and manual methods.
• Design: Developing economical, practical structural engineering solutions that minimize embodied carbon and meet sustainability goals. This involves creating computer models to assess building behavior.
• Communication: Effectively conveying information through drawings, sketches, digital models, calculations, BIM, meetings, presentations, reports, and electronic messages.
• Teamwork: Collaborating with others, taking and giving instructions, problem-solving collectively, thinking innovatively, and treating colleagues with respect and empathy.
• Learning: Acquiring knowledge of structural engineering practices, codes of practice, software, materials, construction techniques, and other disciplines involved in project delivery.
• Work Planning: Agreeing on deadlines and working efficiently with the team.
• Responsibility: Ensuring the quality and timely delivery of your work, managing your own learning and professional development, and considering your impact on others.
• Innovation: Finding new, better, faster, and cheaper ways of working, learning international best practices, and developing new ideas. This includes applying scripting, automation, and developing bespoke software and spreadsheets.
• Relationship Building: Investing time in developing relationships with project teams, peers, and office colleagues, contributing to team life, and building internal and external networks.

Is this role right for you?

Qualifications, Skills and Attributes:

• Degree in Civil, Structural, General or Architectural Engineering, or Engineering Science, achieving a 2.1 or above.
• Studying, or have studied, an ICE or IStructE accredited course.
• A passion for structural engineering.

To be considered, your application must include:

• A copy of your academic transcript.
• Full working rights in the UK.
• No more than 12 months of full-time experience in a comparable role.
• Be recently graduated or on track to graduate before employment starts.

Core Attributes:

• Changemakers: Passion for sustainable development and creating a better world.
• Innovative minds: Critical thinkers who embrace new ideas and challenge the status quo.
• Growth seekers: Possess a growth mindset, eager to learn and explore new ways of working.
• Adaptable adventurers: Ready to take on challenges.

Start Date

1 September 2027

Eligibility

• This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. You must have the right to work permanently in the UK.

What we offer you

• Competitive, fair, and equitable pay.
• A career where you can belong, grow, and thrive.
• Benefits supporting health and wellbeing.
• A wide range of learning opportunities.
• Opportunities to make an impact through your work.
• Profit Share scheme.
• Flexible working approach.
• Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance, and Income protection cover for permanent members.
• Access to flexible benefits for wellbeing.

Next Steps

Applications are reviewed as received, so early application is recommended. The process includes:

• Online application
• Psychometric testing
• Application review
• Case study
• Interview
• Offer stage