Graduate Acoustics Engineer - 2025 Intake

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Job Description

To be considered for this role, please make sure you read the job description carefully and apply by submitting all the relevant documents.

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 – Early Careers@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
You will be part of our award-winning dynamic UK team of 13 people. The team is part of a thriving specialist international group of over 100 acousticians in over 12 countries. In the UK, the team operates across 4 offices (Cambridge, London, Birmingham and Manchester) and wins a third of its work from external clients and the balance in collaboration with our own environmental, transport and building engineers.
We deliver a wide variety of environmental and buildings projects including new schools and hospitals and sustainable places for people to live and work, a growing portfolio of Data Centres, large scale masterplan residential-lead masterplan developments, and high-profile sporting venues in various parts of the UK.
We are supporting projects throughout the UK and globally, and in previous years our acousticians have worked as far a-field as the Falkland Islands. Our team is highly experienced, engaged, motivated and committed to delivering excellence to our clients in all areas of noise and vibration design.

Our pipeline is diverse, robust and most importantly, resilient. Ramboll is a full and active member of the Association of Noise Consultants.

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:

  • Acoustic related Degree, IOA Diploma or Masters’ Degree
  • Full driving license
  • Experience with CADNA/A software
  • Experience in the use of Arc GIS (or similar) would be beneficial
  • Good communication and organisational skills
We don’t expect you to know everything, but that you show curiosity, take responsibility, and want to deliver high-quality work. Ramboll strives to deliver excellent cross-functional solutions in a professional and well-coordinated manner to our clients.

Therefore, we believe you have good communication and collaboration skills.

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:

  • Step 1: Apply online
  • Step 2: Shortlisting
  • Step 3: Interviews and/or Assessment Centre – Date and Location TBC

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 questions:
Question 1. Ramboll’s initiative, ‘The Partner for Sustainable Change’, focuses on four key themes; Decarbonise for net-zero, Resilient societies and liveability, Resource management and circular economy, Biodiversity and ecosystem.
Please choose one unifying theme and explain how we can apply this to the built environment for a positive, environmental change. (max. 150 words)

Question 2. Describe a time when you led or worked as a part of a team to solve a complex or multidisciplinary design problem. What did you learn? What do you believe were the key factors for success? (max. 150 words)

Question 3. Why does sustainability matter to you? (max. 150 words)

Question 4. We are looking for applicants across all of our UK offices. Please provide a list of locations which you would consider working from. Please note that this does not exclude you from other offices should opportunities arise - it enables us to review applications by location preference.

United Kingdom - Ramboll Group

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 job.advert.accessibility@ramboll.com 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: 6th December 2024

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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