2025 Spain Graduate Civil Engineering Career Path: Water Sector

**Location**
- Madrid, Spain

**Country**
- Spain

**Contract type**
- Permanent

**Work pattern**
- Full Time

**Market**
- Water

**Discipline**
- Water, Civil

**Job ref**
- 6244

**Recruiter contact**

Now more than ever, our environment and communities need to be made more resilient in the face of climate change. Working on every facet of development, our civil engineers aim to solve this by offering the opportunity to create better cities, reduce poverty and improve health.

Working alongside our experts, you’ll play a part in safeguarding natural resources. Using sustainability as a focus, you’ll be creating economic and social growth for generations to come.

Join our team of water experts and you’ll have the opportunity to help deliver intellectually challenging sustainable water projects in a range of water sub-sectors including:

- Dams and reservoirs - designing new dams, maintaining existing dams, designing flood barriers and hydraulic structures
- Hydraulic (civil): Networks - creating and using hydraulic models of water and wastewater networks to tackle the water industry’s key issues, including growth, climate change, sewage spills and leakage reduction
- Pipelines and networks - creating hydraulic models, designing water supply networks, designing and delivering major pipeline transfers and drainage systems
- Rivers and flooding - understanding floods and droughts, and tackling water quality with nature-based solutions
- Water and wastewater treatment - designing new supply and wastewater networks, delivering major pipeline transfer and drainage systems, resolving combined sewer overflow spills and tackling leakage, as well as designing new and upgrading existing water and wastewater treatment plants and pumping stations.

To be eligible for this opportunity, you will have less than 12 months relevant experience (excluding placements) and have a **master’s degree** (obtained no earlier than 2023) or are expected to achieve one in **civil engineering.**

We are looking for graduates with the following characteristics:

- Methodical approach to problem solving.
- Ability to use your initiative to undertake tasks efficiently and independently.
- Excellent verbal communication skills, which allow you to confidently liaise with clients and team members.
- Excellent written communication and attention to detail.
- Fluent in Spanish and English.

As we want the best people for the role, we support flexible working. Please ask us at interview stage about any flexibility you may need.

**About your development**

A graduate position should be more than just a job. We know this and so do you. That’s why with our graduate roles, we aim to give you the experience and technical knowledge you need to progress your career.

From the moment you join us, you’ll receive the training you need. You will be assigned a chartered mentor, who will guide you to meet the objectives of your professional training agreement. We’ll support you on your journey to gaining chartered status with your chosen institution.

**What else is involved?**

You’ll be enrolled onto Accelerate Your Future, a structured three-year soft-skills development programme which develops the strengths that we know graduates need to be successful at Mott MacDonald. It also gives you the opportunity to network and meet other graduates in your cohort. The programme is a mix of residential events, classroom-based learning, virtual webinars, and sustainability and social impact challenges.

In addition to developing your soft skills, we recognise that each persons career goals vary, so when rolling off the programme we provide you with the tools and support to develop your ongoing career the way you wish to. Alongside our vast library of e-learning courses available to you, you can choose which direction you want your career to go in.

You will have the opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our Social Outcomes and the difference we can make

You’re probably wondering what else is on offer. Join us, and you’ll get:

- Biannual salary reviews: we believe that hard work should be rewarded and recognised. Therefore, for the first three years of your career with us, you’ll have biannual salary reviews.
- A competitive salary: in addition to biannual reviews, we will ensure that you’re given a salary that matches the current industry standard.

**Our social side**

Being part of Mott MacDonald means more than just work, there’s a huge range of fun and exciting things that you can get involved in.

From the moment you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to expand your social and professional network, whether it’s meeting other graduates or joining forces with other members of staff from around the company at our annual sports day. Each of our offices have a sports and social committee which will give you the chance to be part of a variety of sports, social and charity events. We’re committed to promoting a strong culture of social responsibi