Nuttall Graduates - your future

At Nuttall, we recruit both graduates and HNC/D students for careers in civil, mechanical, electrical, geotechnical and environmental engineering and quantity surveying. Join us and you will enjoy a unique opportunity to gain the knowledge, skills and competence you need to become one of the senior managers of the future. In the early stages of your development we’ll provide regular mentoring that allows you to gain significant ‘on-the-job’ experience, complemented by formal training courses.

We actively encourage the kind of career paths that lead to membership of recognised professional institutions. In addition, our staff development scheme gives all our employees the opportunity to realise their full potential. This is demonstrated by the numbers of staff who have been promoted from within the organisation.

At Nuttall, we can offer career opportunities in a wide number of disciplines, with courses and programmes designed to suit both your academic background and future aspirations. As well as engineering and quantity surveying roles, we also have positions within a number of specialist functions such as business development, planning, estimating, design, purchasing and IT.

Civil Engineering

Our training schemes have received numerous industry awards and are seen as benchmark programmes by universities, institutions and the industry, offering broad based training and experience in all aspects of Civil Engineering.

Every year we place new graduates on site and allow them to become important members of the construction team. We offer a training scheme, ‘Under Agreement’, which will lead to Eng Tech and both Incorporated and Chartered Engineer status. The scheme is approved and monitored by the Institution of Civil Engineers and incorporates all the ICE objectives to give the broad base of experience necessary for professional examinations. The programme is constantly updated to reflect the changing routes to membership including the latest 3000 series.

The ‘Under Agreement’ period usually involves approximately two years under supervision on site followed by up to one year in a design office. This period may be spent within Nuttall’s own design office or perhaps on secondment to a recognised Consulting Engineer’s practice.

HNC/D students follow a similar course to satisfy their training programme and are treated in the same manner as graduates.

Additionally we can offer ‘Further Learning’ as part of the approved Training Programme and we are currently the only contractor in the U.K. to have this section of the scheme approved by the Institution of Civil Engineers.

The ‘Further Learning’ acknowledges the academic difference between a BEng and MEng course and provides the equivalent ‘on-the-job’ training to achieve the MEng status to progress to full Chartered membership.

There is a similar process in place to allow the HND graduate to progress in the BEng equivalent whilst remaining in the workplace.

Mechanical, Electrical and Environmental Engineering

In addition to the Training Programme for Civil Engineers, we have similar schemes in place for Mechanical and Electrical Engineers.
Both these schemes are similarly approved and monitored by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Electrical Engineers respectively, and will provide opportunities to get the necessary training and experience in preparation for the relevant professional examinations.

As with the Civil Engineering Programmes we are looking to include further learning to accomodate the B Eng graduates.

It is also our intention to progress a Training Programme, which will be approved and monitored by the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, for graduates qualified in Environmental Engineering.

Quantity Surveying

The type of complex civil engineering work carried out by Nuttall requires both professional and experienced quantity surveyors, who understand in detail the financial implications of a project and who can work effectively in a team with engineering staff to realise an acceptable result. Our primary professional institution for quantity surveying staff is the Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors but graduates wishing to follow a route to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors will also be catered for within the training programme.

The Quantity Surveyor training programme is accredited and monitored by the I.C.E.S., and recognises the necessary updates to accomodate the revised competencies required by the Institution.

Summer Vacation and Supervised Work Experience

We are able to offer summer vacation and supervised work experience based on one of our civil engineering contracts to undergraduates following courses in Civil Engineering and Quantity Surveying.

In some cases, we are able to offer sponsorship for the next year at university to those who complete a successful summer vacation or a supervised work experience period with us.