Graduate Architect (Birmingham)

Graduate Architect (Birmingham) Join the Jacobs Graduate Development Program (GDP) and help shape better environments, communities and societies. Bring your passion, creativity and ambition - and together, we'll create lasting change.

What You'll Get

Our two-year Graduate Development Program is designed to accelerate your growth as you begin your Jacobs career. Through blended learning, mentoring, progress reviews and networking, you'll build capability across four key areas: human skills, consulting skills, championing our strategy, and developing your personal passions.

You'll tailor your learning journey to your interests, career goals and technical strengths - creating a graduate experience that's uniquely yours. Much of your development will come through real project work, supported by your manager and mentor to ensure you gain the experiences that matter most.

The Graduate Development Program isn't just a steppingstone - it's a launchpad. You'll gain the tools, exposure and support to unlock your potential, working on meaningful projects and collaborating with industry leaders to deliver solutions to complex challenges.

About the opportunity

The Jacobs Cities & Places (C&P) team create thriving places - from regions, cities, neighbourhoods & communities through to individual buildings and all through an integrated design approach. We have a tremendous opportunity in front of us to build upon our strengths and develop an interdisciplinary planning, design and delivery practice that is uniquely Jacobs, that sets the direction for the industry and is home to the very best and brightest design thinkers, disruptors, technical experts, visionaries and storytellers.

Our business unit brings together engineers, architects, surveyors, designers, place-makers, project managers and transport planners to provide collaborative and coordinated value design solutions for our clients, both domestically and internationally.

A key enabler behind our growth and work winning strategy is the development of the Architecture team in the UK. To support this strategic objective Cities and Places are recruiting a number of engineering and architectural professionals to work within our design teams in the UK and be an integral part of delivering high-value solutions to our clients.

We are looking for a Graduate Architect to join our business unit in the Cities & Places UK Architecture team. Based in the Birmingham office, but with work across the UK and Europe, you will work alongside our Architects within a multi-disciplinary design team set-up, delivering design solutions across multiple sectors from Public sector, Defence, Transportation, Commercial, Pharmaceutical and Mixed-Use development.

We deliver projects across all stages of the building design and construction process from initial strategic briefing, where client objectives and feasibility studies are conducted; through to development of conceptual and technical proposals, to construction phase delivery.

You will need strong design skills, we will provide support and mentoring to develop your skills to work in collaboration with other project team members in preparing, reviewing, and refining design proposals using various media. This includes traditional methods such as hand-sketching to develop design concepts and detailed design solutions, through to project delivery using BIM (Building Information Modelling).

Key requirements for this role are good and communication skills with a collaborative working pro-active mindset. Regular check-in meetings to review progress, design decisions, and openly air any blockers with the UK project team will be essential and form part of your day-to-day work ethic. You will need to be able to work both independently and as part of a wider project team.

The start date for this position is September 2027. Be working towards a relevant Degree or Master's level qualification in Architecture (or equivalent RIBA 2 qualification
A flexible, proactive mindset and motivation to drive your career forward
Adaptability and enthusiasm for learning
Permanent right to work in the UK

Selection Process

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Apply as soon as possible to be considered in the first assessment window. Applications may still be accepted afterwards, but roles may be filled during the initial window.

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