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Launch your career and find your professional home at Ramboll. Be part of a welcoming and engaging environment, where you can develop and explore your professional interests and passions, and curiosity in ways that make the most of all the opportunities ahead of you.
At Ramboll, we offer a unique work environment. Our culture is built on openness, understanding, and respect, allowing you to shape your role to match your working style, aspirations, and personal life. Our Nordic heritage drives our commitment to improving conditions for people and nature through our projects. As a foundation-owned multinational company, the profit we make is reinvested into the company. This ensures the continued development of employees or is used to fund research, charity, and humanitarian projects. Our commitment to be 'The Partner for Sustainable Change' ensures your work makes a meaningful impact on people, communities, and the environment.
Our Early Careers Programme – EarlyCareers@Ramboll
We have designed a training program that will boost your personal, commercial and technical development to kick-start your career with Ramboll. You will also be paired with a mentor and have access to a clear framework to work towards your professional development.
The Early Careers Challenge is one of the highlights of the graduate training. This is a fun and exciting event where you get to travel around the UK and work on a project that will provide you with an insight into the concept of design. You also get the opportunity to collaborate and network with amazing people and peers.
About the Opportunity
Our Graduate Offshore Wind Engineers are responsible for contributing to the overall delivery of high quality and innovative designs for the Offshore Wind turbine foundations of the future.
As a Graduate Offshore Wind Engineer, you will be part of Ramboll’s Offshore Wind team consisting of over 300 professionals. Operating primarily from 6 offices in Denmark, Germany and the UK along with colleagues worldwide including India, China, Poland and the USA. The offshore wind team support offshore projects around the world, delivering the full suite of services required to develop an offshore windfarm including the design for offshore wind turbine support structures and foundations, both fixed and floating. Having completed the detailed design of over 60 offshore wind farms, you will join a team with a wealth of experience to draw upon and learn from. In addition to the opportunity of working with exceptional engineers every day on varied and ground-breaking projects, we pride ourselves on offering a structured development program from your first day as a graduate, through your role as a Structural Engineer/Naval Architect, to the day you become a Chartered Engineer and beyond. If you enjoy challenging the status quo and finding efficient and novel ways to tackle unfamiliar engineering problems, then come join us!
Your skills and experience
From the moment you join Ramboll, we will support your personal and professional development so that you grow with the company. For this role, we believe your starting point is:
- A Master’s degree in Civil or Structural or Mechanical Engineering or Naval Architecture
- An interest for the offshore renewables industry and the design of highly dynamic and complex offshore wind structures, foundations, moorings and cables.
- Interest in or experience with structural design software, naval architecture software and programming languages (e.g. Python or alternatives)
- Good communication skills in English with the ability to work as part of a team interfacing with other disciplines and other stakeholders both in person and remotely
Personal qualities that will help you succeed in this role include: proactive attitude, reliable and solution-oriented, positive attitude, enjoy working as part of a team, willingness to learn, curiosity and enthusiasm.
Benefits you will enjoy:
- Hybrid & Flexible Working
- 27 days holiday per year + 8 days bank holiday
- Professional subscription + support on becoming chartered
- Matched pension scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- A great list of flexible benefits you can choose from including discounted taste card subscription, cycle to work scheme, gym flex and many more!
Selection Process:
We aim to respond to your application shortly after the deadline by the latest. There are several steps to our selection process. You will advance onto the next step if you are successfully shortlisted.
- Step 1: CV Screening
- Step 2: Screening telephone call: likely to be w/c 27th January 2025
- Step 3: Assessment Centre. The assessment centre for this position is likely to be held in London on Friday 14th February 2025. You may want to save the date in case you are selected to attend the assessment centre.
How to apply
Apply online. Attach your CV and Cover Letter. In a separate document, please address the following question:
What attracts you to the offshore wind industry and specifically the design of offshore structures (fixed or floating)? (200words max)
Work at the heart of sustainable change with Ramboll in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company. As a foundation-owned people company, founded in Denmark, we believe that the purpose of sustainable change is to create a thriving world for both nature and people. So, that’s where we start – and how we work. Our history is rooted in a clear vision of how a responsible company should act and being open and curious is a cornerstone of our culture. Ramboll in the United Kingdom and Ireland has a proven track record of sustainable and responsible business and is a top ten engineering and environmental and sustainability consultancy in the UK, with more than 1,500 employees across 16 offices. Ramboll experts deliver innovative solutions across Buildings, Transport, Environment & Health, and Energy. In 2024, Ramboll was included in the Sunday Times’ list of Best Places to Work.
How to apply
Apply online. Attach your CV and Cover Letter. In a separate document, please address the following question:
1. What attracts you to the offshore wind industry and specifically the design of offshore structures (fixed or floating)? (200words max)
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of what we do. At Ramboll, we believe that diversity is a strength and that different experiences and perspectives are essential to creating truly sustainable societies. We are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive work environment where everyone is able to flourish and reach their potential. We also know how important it is to achieve the right balance of where, when, and how much you work. As a company, Ramboll recognises the importance of having a good work/life balance, both in terms of individual well-being and its positive impact with respect to the engagement and retention of our employees. We aim to support all employees to achieve a work/life balance which enables them to work in a supported manner while having the time to achieve personal aspects of their life outside of work. We invite applications from candidates of all backgrounds and characteristics.
As a Disability Confident Committed employer, Ramboll ensures opportunities are accessible to candidates with disabilities. Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to the application process to make it more comfortable for you. You can contact us at [email protected] with such requests.
Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered.
Based on the volume of applications received we reserve the right to close applications early.
We look forward to receiving your application.
Deadline for applications: 20th December 2024
