Dorset Highways provides technical and professional engineering services to Dorset Council. We specialise in project management, highway and bridge design, housing development infrastructure and construction.
Our strategic partnerships – with Hanson Contracting and WSP – means that we are uniquely placed to offer placement students the opportunity to gain experience, design and construction site skills on a wide range of projects.
We offer industrial year placements to selected undergraduates who are studying for a degree in civil engineering or a related subject. In some cases, this can lead to sponsorship being offered during the last year of your MEng/MSc degree.
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Students are mentored by, and work with, experienced professionals on real-life projects to gain valuable experience, and put learning into practice.
When students complete their placements and return to university they generally find that they can make more sense of their studies, and have a better appreciation of what they would like to do upon graduation.
Applications for an industrial placement year can be made at any time. Interviews are held at a time to suit student term and holiday time arrangements. The industrial placements are awarded, to those who meet our criteria, on a first come first served basis and generally run for a year from July.