With structured development schemes leading to professional chartership, joining JN Bentley as a graduate is a brilliant opportunity to launch your career.
Graduate roles are hands on from day one, and with a very supportive team behind you, there is the opportunity to work both out on site and within the office environment on live projects. You’ll apply the knowledge gained from your studies from the word 'go', and have the chance to work on, or contribute to the work of interesting, complex and challenging civil, mechanical and electrical engineering projects.
Throughout you’ll be provided with the opportunity to train, hone key skills, and develop professionally to ensure you have a fulfilling career at JN Bentley.
Our graduate opportunities will be advertised from September with the selection process taking place in November and offers going out by December. The role will start in either July or August.
We have no specific grade requirements for our graduate roles but generally we ask for your degree to be related to the graduate role you are applying for. We also look for our graduate roles to be filled by people who have graduated within the last two years.
If you graduated longer than 2 years ago, please have a look at our experienced career opportunities.
For some of our graduate roles you must hold a full driving licence or be in the process of learning to drive.
Yes, we offer professional development schemes to support your journey to achieving a professional qualification. You will be assigned a mentor to help with your development.
Yes, all our graduates are enrolled onto our Early Careers Development Programme, which is a year-out programme designed to ensure our apprentices and graduates have the key skills, behaviours, and support network to thrive in their career.
Some of our graduate opportunities are rotational role around the business. Even if you are not on a rotational roles, we support people to move between frameworks and roles to gain experience in other areas of the business to aid their development.
We offer both year-out and summer placements across all of our teams from Quantity Surveying to HR and everything in between and take on a number of university students every year across the UK.
You won’t just spend your time making tea and trying to buy tartan paint...placements at JN Bentley give you a real insight into your vocation of choice.
You’ll have hands-on responsibility from day one and throughout your placement. Treat it like a job interview; we have many placement students re-join us for their year in industry or after graduation.
To explore current placement opportunities with us, check out our current vacancies and start your application today.
At JN Bentley we offer both year-out and summer placements. Our summer placements can last up to 12 weeks.
The longest placement we offer is for 12 months.
Our placement roles are hands-on from day one, you’ll become a key part of the team and have real responsibility. Working alongside our talented colleagues, you’ll see what the world of work is really like and put your learnings from university into practice.
Some of our placements provide you with the opportunity to rotate across different areas of the business, this will help you gain an understanding of different roles allowing you to choose the career path that’s right for you.
For our year-out placements the opportunities will be advertised from September with the selection process taking place in November and offers going out by December. The placement will start in either July or August. Our summer placement vacancies are not advertised on our website, if you are interested in an opportunity, please contact mmbcearlycareers@jnbentley.co.uk
Yes, all our placements are paid. It’s important to us that you feel rewarded for the role you do.
We’re pleased that we can offer some great benefits to our placement students whilst they’re here with us. Our placements have access to our health cash plan, retail discounts and our famous Christmas gift.
Absolutely, you will accrue annual leave in the same way as our permanent employees. For a full year-out placement you will receive 26 days' annual leave plus bank holidays.
When your placement year is coming to an end, if you have had a successful year, you will be offered sponsorship, which provides you with financial support during your final year, along with an offer to return to JN Bentley once you graduate. We also have some placement students who continue to work at JN Bentley part time during their final year of study.
There is an opportunity for you to return as a summer placement during your break from university and then return as a graduate following completion of your masters degree.
Students at any stage of their studies can apply to undertake a short period of work experience with us, typically one or two weeks.
Not only will this boost your CV to any potential employers (including us) but will also give you a taster of the industry to see what area or specialism you may want to pursue once you finish your studies.
Work experience could be the first rung on your career ladder with JN Bentley.
Assessment centres are a really good way for us to get to know you better. We’ll use different activities to allow you to demonstrate your teamworking and problem-solving skills – two important aspects of working with us. You will also interview with our hiring managers to allow them to find out more about you as a person. Our assessment centres are also a great opportunity for you to get to know us, who we are, what we do and decide whether we’re also right for you. We appreciate that assessment centres can be a dauting experience, to ensure you are fully prepared and feel comfortable about the day read our FAQs.
Typically, our assessment centres will be between eight to ten candidates. It is important to remember that the assessment centre is just a way of finding candidates suitable for a role; you are not in competition with the other candidates at the assessment centre.
There’s a variety of people at the assessment centre including a member of our early careers recruitment team, managers from across the business as well as some past apprentices, placements, and graduates. Take time to speak to everyone there, they’ll be able to answer any questions you have and provide you with insights on what it’s like to work at JN Bentley.
Our assessment centres typically run between 10am to 3pm, with a social lunch break to allow you to connect with the other candidates and hiring managers.
Some of the key skills we’re looking for are communication, problem solving skills, teamwork, and ability to learn. These key skills are important, but we also want to find out who you are.
Our assessment centres are a smart casual dress code. It’s important that you feel comfortable throughout the day to be able to perform at your best.
Just yourself, everything you need will be provided for you.
Focus on yourself and not the other candidates. It’s easy to sit and compare yourself to others, but the most important thing is to be yourself and focus on demonstrating your skills.
You are not expected to know everything. It’s about showing how you approach a task, and how you apply your skills and knowledge. Even if you’ve got the wrong answer, it’s about showing how you tackle tasks. Individuality and clear, thought through ideas will stand out.
Speak up and get your voice heard. Remember, it’s not always about being the loudest person in the room, but you also need to make sure you contribute. Be confident when getting involved with tasks.
Smile, be friendly, respectful, and polite. Make sure you interact with others wherever you get the opportunity. Even if it’s informal conversation and getting to know them. It helps show you can get on with people and that you’d be a good team member.
Enjoy yourself. If you try to relax and enjoy the day, this will reflect off you and onto the interviewers. They want to see how you’d act in a typical everyday environment. Be true to yourself and show them who you are.
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Graduates
Year-Out Placement Students
Summer Placement Students
All our Graduate and Apprentice roles come with permanent employment contracts and offer full staff benefits.
Benefit from our established relationships with the leading training partners across the industry to obtain your professional qualifications.
With proven mentoring programmes and access to industry leaders, we will support you to achieve chartership.
As an Apprentice or Graduate, you will be automatically enrolled into our bespoke Early Careers Development Programme; a 12-month scheme designed to enhance your works skills, expand your network and enrich your experience.
Make a great impression during your placement and you could be offered a permanent role for when you finished your studies, as well as the potential for financial sponsorship to either support you during your final year or cover your university fees for your final year.
JN Bentley proudly hold platinum membership with the 5% club.
In joining The 5% Club, members aspire to achieve at least 5% of their workforce in ‘earn and learn’ positions. Over the past three years, more than 10% of JN Bentley’s workforce have been in apprenticeship, placement and graduate roles meaning that in the 2024 employer audit, the company was awarded platinum membership.
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