Skanska UK Plc is one of the UK's largest construction services companies. We combine design, building, civil engineering and building services with a wide range of specialist skills. By integrating all disciplines and working together with our clients and our partners we make a real difference to the way construction is delivered. Skanska UK is part of Skanska, one of the world's leading construction groups with expertise in construction, project development of commercial and residential projects and public-private partnerships.

Our Values

Everything we do at Skanska is governed by a clear Code of Conduct, which guides everything we do as a business. It sets out our responsibilities to the countries, communities and environments in which we operate, to our employees, business partners and to society in general.

We have developed our success based on a reputation for consistently being able to complete high-profile challenging projects to our clients' satisfaction. Our work in construction, civil engineering and building services includes some of the UK's most high-profile projects. In many of our areas of work we are one of the UK's leading operators and this success is set to continue.

Our people

The importance of people, both in and out of our business is how Skanska is different to our competitors. People are our focus, and we place a high value on how we treat our own people as well as the people and communities we interact with. Graduates working in Skanska have the opportunity to begin and develop their career working on industry-leading projects, whichever part of our business they are working in.

Our Graduates

Graduates in Skanska are offered support with obtaining any professional qualifications relevant to their role including chartered status. Support is available from experts within the business to give our graduates every chance of success in becoming chartered.

We also run our own-in house developed programmes that enable graduates to develop key personal skills and qualities that maximise the contribution they can make to the business and help them build a career in Skanska. Our graduates get both technical and behavioural development support.

Our aim is to ensure graduates are keen to stay in the business beyond the start of their careers. We see recruiting graduates as a key investment in the future success of Skanska, and helping graduates build a career, as well as develop expertise in our industry is important to us. Our success is helping our graduates succeed.

Work offered:

We have graduate roles in civil engineering, quantity surveying, construction management and other operational and support roles, working in our different UK businesses in areas including, PFI construction, commercial construction, civil engineering infrastructure projects, ground engineering and piling, utilities, building services and engineering design consultancy.

Subject of Study;

For the majority of our roles we are looking for graduates who have achieved/expect to achieve a 2.2 in Civil Engineering, Quantity Surveying or Construction Management. Some of our graduate opportunities are suitable for graduates in other subjects.

Applications:

More information is available at www.skanska.co.uk/futuretalent . Applications must be made using the online application form accessible from this website.

Closing dates:

For graduate roles - Early December 2008
For undergraduate roles - January 2009