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8 months ago
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Register Your Interest for Graduate Opportunities!

Are you ready to begin your professional journey in engineering? We would like to invite motivated graduates from all disciplines to express their interest in exciting graduate opportunities with COWI. Alongside our diverse team, you’ll gain experience and contribute to effective projects that bring significant results worldwide.

COWI in the UK and Ireland employs over people, based in six offices and working remotely. We primarily focus on energy and transportation infrastructure, including offshore wind, green fuels, district heating, bridges, tunnels, underground structures, and rail. However, our extensive experience also encompasses ground engineering and reclamation, utilities and special structures.

Our engineering culture emphasises designing buildability in and design risk out. We understand how important a varied workload is for developing our engineers, so we encourage them to work on a mix of smaller, local assignments and larger multidisciplinary projects.

To support our growth, we are expanding our multi-disciplinary capabilities by adding employees with skills in sustainability, planning, M&E (Mechanical and Electrical), community engagement, and more to our ever-expanding skills base.

You’ll have the opportunity to work across several disciplines: -

Ground Engineering Tunnels, Civil & Underground Structures Highways & Drainage Bridges, Marine & Offshore Structures MEP & Process Engineering

At COWI, we encourage you to work across various sectors and projects, enhancing your skills and broadening your knowledge. We are focused on developing young talent and providing a platform for innovation and growth.

SOME OF OUR EXCITING PROJECTS

We are currently engaged in many varied and exciting projects across globe, including: Thames Tideway Tunnel, London, United Kingdom Mersey Gateway Bridge, United Kingdom Coire Glas pumped hydro storage, Scotland The Copenhagen Metro, Denmark Stad Ship Tunnel, Norway Preem Refinery, Sweden Hellisheidi Geothermal Energy Plant, Iceland Jeonnam 1 Offshore Wind Farm, South Korea

You can find more about our projects, visiting this URL
EXTEND YOUR POTENTIAL WITH A GLOBAL TEAM OF EXPERTS

We welcome applications from motivated professionals keen to contribute to our projects, regardless of your specific engineering discipline.

While we typically recruit for graduate roles during the month of October, we also accept expressions of interest on an ad hoc basis throughout the year to meet the needs of our hiring managers.

Become a part of COWI's global team of experts. If you're motivated by engineering and prepared to deliver innovative solutions, we encourage you to register your interest today!

We look forward to receiving your expression of interest and will be in touch if a relevant position matches your profile.

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