Uk Summer Internship

**Your Impact**: Kick-start your career with an 8-week Summer Internship from July 2023**

**At Jacobs we’re challenging today to reinvent tomorrow. Our Interns are innovators, disruptors and passionate about taking on this challenge**

At Jacobs, we focus on providing solutions to challenges such as climate change, cyber security and health infrastructure. While we shape some of the largest and most challenging landmark projects in the UK and Ireland such as HS2, Thames Tideway Tunnel and the Elizabeth Line, we also deliver local projects that protect communities. We’re helping to make the world smarter, more connected and more sustainable.

**The biggest questions spark our curious minds**. At Jacobs, we solve the most important problems, the ones for the real world. Whether it’s projects focused on addressing the climate emergency, improving our security, or benefiting our communities by improving transportation links and infrastructure, these are just some of the ways we are working to build a better future for all.

**About the Internship opportunity**:
At Jacobs we turn great ideas into reality, and we’re looking for the most curious minds and passionate individuals to be our next generation of leaders.

We are excited to be offering an internship position in our Transport Planning and Mobility Solutions team in our Chelmsford office. As part of the South-East Team you will be working with transport planning colleagues across the region as well as part of multi-disciplinary teams across other Jacobs offices.

Join us and you’ll have the chance to work on projects for a range of local, national and international clients across the UK and Ireland. You will be assigned to projects that align with your interests, career aspirations and academic background. Day to day tasks could include:

- Helping to develop and appraise various transport schemes and initiatives.
- Assessing travel needs and opportunities to improve the way people travel to undertake their daily activities.
- Undertaking feasibility studies.
- Considering walking and cycling improvements aligning with local and national sustainability goals.
- Transformational placemaking to reduce the impact of transport on the built and natural environment.
- Designing and engineering traffic management solutions to enhance transport networks for all users.
- Using spatial and economic analysis to understand benefits for communities.
- Building and using transport models to appraise schemes.
- Developing plans and strategies.
- Delivering transport schemes aligning to current policy context (e.g. decarbonisation, sustainability and economic recovery).

Our Transport Planning and Mobility Solutions team, within which you will be based, has an enviable reputation in the UK as a result of our extensive portfolio of high-profile projects. Our projects involve working with various major clients in the transport industry, including local authorities, private sector, and government, throughout the UK and Ireland.

**What will you get?**

As a member of the Jacobs intern community, weekly presentations on key learning topics will be on offer and you’ll be invited to attend regular office events and Competitions A mentor will support your learning and facilitate opportunities to network across Jacobs, allowing you to gain as much out of the experience as possible.

We are proud of our inclusive and diverse culture and work environment, embracing the variety of disciplines, cultures, backgrounds and lifestyles of our employees through our Jacobs Employee Networks

At Jacobs, your safety, health, and wellbeing are our top priority, emphasised through our culture of caring and positive mental health champion network. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

**Here’s What You’ll Need**: Here’s what you’ll need**
- A desire to learn about Transport Planning
- A flexible and innovative self-starter who’s passionate about developing skills
- Empathy and listening skills to help you truly understand our clients’ requirements
- A well-rounded person - have you travelled around the world? Worked in a bar? Been captain of a sports team or volunteered for a charity? Tell us - we’re looking for people with interesting stories and experiences
- You must have the permanent right to work in the UK.

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