Graduate Civil Engineer (Highways Design)

Milestone Infrastructure are the leading provider of highways infrastructure in the UK and look after in excess of 24,000 miles of roads, 280,000 lighting assets and 20,000 miles of footways, always with a view to ensuring that all works are carried out as sustainably as possible and with minimal impact to local communities.

Recently Milestone Infrastructure have been awarded a 7-year contract to provide a broad range of highway services to Central Bedfordshire Council covering design, construction and maintenance. We are currently looking to recruit a Graduate Civil Engineer to join our highways design team based near Dunstable.

As a Graduate Civil Engineer, you will be working in conjunction with the site team to ensure that construction is carried out accurately, quality is maintained, records are kept, abortive or defective work is avoided, and that satisfactory progress is achieved.

• Work as a member of one of our design and construction teams within our partnership contract delivering highways and structures projects for number of contracts within Milestone Infrastructure.
• Work closely with project managers, our commercial and construction teams to plan and implement these schemes from ‘start to finish’ within budget and to programme, and in compliance with quality, safety and environmental objectives
• Plan and undertake site visits, surveys and investigations
• Prepare scheme designs, drawings and documents using a range of design software
• Assist in supervising the construction of our highways/structures projects
• Ensure that relevant standards are applied in accordance with national & local criteria and sound engineering practice, to deliver best value solutions which meet client objectives
• Review how innovations can be incorporated into our schemes to work towards our carbon reduction plan
• If placed with our bridges team, undertake inspections and structural assessments to help maintain the safety of the county’s bridges
• Assist with consultation with the public and other stakeholders affected by our projects
• Work towards Chartered Membership of the Institution of Civil Engineers under the Company Accredited ICE Training Scheme, maintaining training records and completing regular development reports
• Actively participate in the company graduate development programme activities

What do we need from you?

Alongside our values of safety, people, delivery and integrity we will look to understand your potential and development areas for the role. During the recruitment process you may be expected to show us that you are willing to learn, be self-motivated, punctual, organised, committed, and hard-working. Many of the skills you’ll need to succeed in this role will be developed as part of your training – so we look forward to supporting you on your career journey.

At Milestone Infrastructure, we’re proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits:

• Contribution towards professional development fees and further training opportunities provided
• A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
• Generous pension contribution
• 28 days annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to sell/buy leave & carry-over policies
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Cycle2work scheme
• Reward & Recognition Scheme