2027 UK Graduate Mechanical Engineering Career Path: Transport
for section headings. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions.
We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. So we need to decide which sections to include: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We have content about role description (About the role). Responsibilities: duties listed. Requirements: eligibility criteria (less than 12 months experience, degree etc). Qualifications: degree disciplines, masters essential for some. Skills: strengths list. Benefits: listed benefits. Pay: not specified (no salary). Schedule: not specified (no mention of work hours). So we should not include Pay or Schedule sections because no concrete info.
We need to preserve all substantive info. So we need to include About the role (description of role), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (eligibility criteria), Qualifications (degree disciplines, masters essential), Skills (strengths), Benefits (list). Possibly also include "About Your Development" etc? But only allowed headings from list. Could incorporate development info under About the role or maybe as part of Responsibilities? But we must not invent headings. We could put development info under About the role as prose. Or maybe we could add a separate section like "Development" but not allowed. So we incorporate relevant details into existing sections.
We must remove boilerplate: application process instructions, "Before making an application..." etc. Also remove "Online strengths-based assessment", "Application form", etc. Also remove "Start your career with a global..." maybe that's part of About the role? It's generic but could be kept as part of About the role. However it's somewhat boilerplate but still substantive about company. Might keep.
We need to avoid duplication. There's repeated paragraphs about "Start your career..." appears twice? Actually appears at start and later again? We'll keep once.
We need to preserve all substantive info: details about role responsibilities, etc.
Let's extract:
About the role (combined for both positions? Could separate? But we have two distinct roles. Could we list both under About the role? Might be confusing. Perhaps we should create separate sections for each role? Not allowed headings beyond those. Could we include both roles under About the role with separate paragraphs? That might be okay.
But we also have candidate specification etc. Might be better to treat each role separately? However the instruction says use headings for sections; we can have multiple
sections. Could we have About the role for Mechanical Engineer, then Responsibilities, etc, then another About the role for Track Engineer? That would repeat headings, which may be okay but could be considered duplication. The instruction: "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It doesn't forbid multiple sections of same type, but likely they expect one each. However we have two distinct job postings in same text. Could combine them? Might be messy.
Alternative: treat the posting as a generic graduate opportunity with multiple roles; we could summarize responsibilities for each role under Responsibilities, maybe bullet list distinguishing.
But we must preserve ALL substantive information; not summarizing away detail. If we combine, we risk losing distinction. However we could list responsibilities for each role as separate sub-lists under Responsibilities heading, with maybe a note indicating which role.
Similarly for About the role we could have two paragraphs describing each role.
That should preserve details.
Let's extract details:
Mechanical Engineer (Tunnels) Systems – Croydon (Masters Essential):
- Working on wide range of projects that help create safer, more sustainable transport infrastructure.
- Contribute to design of ventilation systems for road, rail, metro and cable tunnels, developing solutions for smoke control, pollution management, cooling and pressure relief.
- Applying principles of fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, heat transfer and aerodynamics, you could help transform fundamental fire and life safety requirements into safe operating conditions for tunnel users.
- Working alongside experienced engineers, you will undertake engineering calculations and numerical 1D simulations to understand airflow behaviour, temperature distribution, pressure changes and smoke movement within complex underground environments.
- Support the development of innovative concept designs into detailed equipment layouts and system operating strategies, helping to ensure tunnel systems operate safely and efficiently.
- From day one, you will be entrusted with meaningful responsibilities while receiving the support, mentoring and development needed to build your confidence and technical expertise.
- Whether collaborating with specialists across multiple disciplines, contributing to major global infrastructure projects, or seeing designs brought to life on site in the UK and abroad, you will have the opportunity to develop into a well-rounded engineer whose work has a tangible impact on people, communities and the resilience of critical transport networks.
Track Engineer (Track) - Manchester:
- Involved in a wide range of activities including, but not limited to, track alignment design, corridor modelling, gauging assessments, small project management/design management roles, and buffer stop risk assessments.
- Develop track alignment designs at both feasibility and detailed design stages for clients such as Network Rail, East West Rail, and contractors involved in smaller design-and-build projects, producing technical drawings, 3D models and more.
- Opportunity to work in a team across the country and beyond, whilst also working towards becoming a Chartered Engineer.
- As part of the Rail Division, you will also have the opportunity to rotate into other disciplines, typically two six-month placements, before returning to Track to complete your graduate scheme.
- Other disciplines include Stations & Civils, Signalling & Operations, Overhead Contact Systems, Rolling Stock and more, offering a well-rounded foundation in railway engineering.
Candidate Specification / Eligibility:
- Less than 12 months’ relevant experience (excluding placements).
- Have a bachelors / masters degree (obtained no earlier than 2025) or expected to achieve one of the following degree disciplines:
- Mechanical engineering
- Aerospace engineering
- Aeronautical Engineering
- For some opportunities, a master’s degree is essential – this is reflected in the list of opportunities in the application form.
- Demonstrate genuine interest in both the opportunity and joining Mott MacDonald; highlight relevant experience or interests such as modules studied, previous work experience, or research about company, values, projects.
- Applications reviewed personally, no AI tools used at this stage.
- UK Immigration: Not offering sponsorship under Skilled Worker visa route; cannot accept applications from candidates who would be working under Graduate visa route or other time-limited visas due to temporary nature and requirement for sponsorship under Skilled Worker route in future. Welcoming applications from candidates eligible for alternative immigration routes that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.
- AI Usage: Encourage responsible use of AI while ensuring we get to know the real person.
- Accessibility: Contact if need accommodations.
About Your Development:
- Graduate position should be more than just a job; aim to give experience and technical knowledge to progress career.
- From moment you join, receive training needed.
- Assigned a mentor to guide you to meet objectives of professional training needs.
- Join three-year early careers soft skills development programme – Accelerating your Future, designed to give skills and tools necessary for a long-lasting successful career.
- Social side: opportunity to expand social and professional network; sports and social committees; annual sports day; variety of sports, social and charity events; encouraged to suggest new events.
- Perks at Work: discounts on cinema tickets, travel, utilities and more.
- Agile working: hybrid working policy embracing well-being, flexibility, trust.
- Equality, diversity, inclusion: promote fair employment procedures, inclusive environment.
- Benefits: list (we will capture under Benefits).
- Employee Ownership: description.
- Health and wellbeing: private medical insurance, health cash plan, Peppy menopause support, comprehensive wellbeing program, ability to flex salary to opt into health benefits extendable to family.
- Lifestyle: 33 days holiday each year inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, ability to buy or sell leave via flexible benefits; 10 days additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers; holiday entitlement increased to minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service; variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers; enhanced family and carers leave (text cut off).
We need to capture Benefits section: includes Biannual salary reviews, pension match 4.5%-7%, life assurance up to 4x basic salary (option to increase to 6x), income protection scheme, flexible benefits (including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving, will writing), annual bonus schemes (as independently owned business), employee ownership model, private medical insurance, health cash plan, Peppy menopause support, wellbeing program, ability to flex salary for health benefits, 33 days holiday, 10 days additional leave for reservists, holiday entitlement increase to 35 days after 5 years, employee saving schemes and discounts, enhanced family and carers leave.
We need to ensure we don't include placeholder text like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Pay: not specified; we should not include Pay section.
Schedule: not specified; we should not include Schedule section.
Now we need to output HTML fragment.
Structure:
About the role
... combined description ...
Responsibilities
- Mechanical Engineer (Tunnels): ...
- Track Engineer (Track): ...
But we need to preserve details; maybe better to have separate subheadings? Not allowed. Could embed role name inside each - as bold text.
Similarly for Requirements: list eligibility criteria.
Qualifications: list degree disciplines and note masters essential for some.
Skills: list strengths.
Benefits: list benefits.
We must ensure we don't repeat job title as heading; we are not.
We must not include Job ID etc.
We must remove boilerplate like "Before making an application..." etc.
Let's craft.
About the role paragraph: combine generic intro plus role-specific descriptions.
Maybe:
At Mott MacDonald you’ll work alongside experts on meaningful projects, with support, learning opportunities and experience to grow your career from day one. The Graduate Mechanical Engineer (Tunnels) Systems role is based in Croydon and focuses on designing ventilation systems for road, rail, metro and cable tunnels, applying fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, heat transfer and aerodynamics to develop smoke control, pollution management, cooling and pressure relief solutions, undertaking engineering calculations and 1D simulations, and supporting concept design development into detailed equipment layouts. The Graduate Track Engineer role is based in Manchester and involves track alignment design, corridor modelling, gauging assessments, small project management, buffer stop risk assessments, producing technical drawings and 3D models, working towards Chartered Engineer status, and the opportunity to rotate into other rail disciplines through two six‑month placements.
That captures both.
Responsibilities: we could list bullet points for each role.
- Mechanical Engineer (Tunnels): contribute to ventilation system design for road, rail, metro and cable tunnels; develop solutions for smoke control, pollution management, cooling and pressure relief; apply fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, heat transfer and aerodynamics; undertake engineering calculations and numerical 1D simulations to understand airflow behaviour, temperature distribution,
for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short
or drop it. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. So we need to decide which sections to include: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We have content about role description (About the role). Responsibilities: duties listed. Requirements: eligibility criteria (less than 12 months experience, degree etc). Qualifications: degree disciplines, masters essential for some. Skills: strengths list. Benefits: listed benefits. Pay: not specified (no salary). Schedule: not specified (no mention of work hours). So we should not include Pay or Schedule sections because no concrete info. We need to preserve all substantive info. So we need to include About the role (description of role), Responsibilities (list of duties), Requirements (eligibility criteria), Qualifications (degree disciplines, masters essential), Skills (strengths), Benefits (list). Possibly also include "About Your Development" etc? But only allowed headings from list. Could incorporate development info under About the role or maybe as part of Responsibilities? But we must not invent headings. We could put development info under About the role as prose. Or maybe we could add a separate section like "Development" but not allowed. So we incorporate relevant details into existing sections. We must remove boilerplate: application process instructions, "Before making an application..." etc. Also remove "Online strengths-based assessment", "Application form", etc. Also remove "Start your career with a global..." maybe that's part of About the role? It's generic but could be kept as part of About the role. However it's somewhat boilerplate but still substantive about company. Might keep. We need to avoid duplication. There's repeated paragraphs about "Start your career..." appears twice? Actually appears at start and later again? We'll keep once. We need to preserve all substantive info: details about role responsibilities, etc. Let's extract: About the role (combined for both positions? Could separate? But we have two distinct roles. Could we list both under About the role? Might be confusing. Perhaps we should create separate sections for each role? Not allowed headings beyond those. Could we include both roles under About the role with separate paragraphs? That might be okay. But we also have candidate specification etc. Might be better to treat each role separately? However the instruction says use headings for sections; we can have multiple
sections. Could we have About the role for Mechanical Engineer, then Responsibilities, etc, then another About the role for Track Engineer? That would repeat headings, which may be okay but could be considered duplication. The instruction: "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It doesn't forbid multiple sections of same type, but likely they expect one each. However we have two distinct job postings in same text. Could combine them? Might be messy.
Alternative: treat the posting as a generic graduate opportunity with multiple roles; we could summarize responsibilities for each role under Responsibilities, maybe bullet list distinguishing.
But we must preserve ALL substantive information; not summarizing away detail. If we combine, we risk losing distinction. However we could list responsibilities for each role as separate sub-lists under Responsibilities heading, with maybe a note indicating which role.
Similarly for About the role we could have two paragraphs describing each role.
That should preserve details.
Let's extract details:
Mechanical Engineer (Tunnels) Systems – Croydon (Masters Essential):
- Working on wide range of projects that help create safer, more sustainable transport infrastructure.
- Contribute to design of ventilation systems for road, rail, metro and cable tunnels, developing solutions for smoke control, pollution management, cooling and pressure relief.
- Applying principles of fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, heat transfer and aerodynamics, you could help transform fundamental fire and life safety requirements into safe operating conditions for tunnel users.
- Working alongside experienced engineers, you will undertake engineering calculations and numerical 1D simulations to understand airflow behaviour, temperature distribution, pressure changes and smoke movement within complex underground environments.
- Support the development of innovative concept designs into detailed equipment layouts and system operating strategies, helping to ensure tunnel systems operate safely and efficiently.
- From day one, you will be entrusted with meaningful responsibilities while receiving the support, mentoring and development needed to build your confidence and technical expertise.
- Whether collaborating with specialists across multiple disciplines, contributing to major global infrastructure projects, or seeing designs brought to life on site in the UK and abroad, you will have the opportunity to develop into a well-rounded engineer whose work has a tangible impact on people, communities and the resilience of critical transport networks.
Track Engineer (Track) - Manchester:
- Involved in a wide range of activities including, but not limited to, track alignment design, corridor modelling, gauging assessments, small project management/design management roles, and buffer stop risk assessments.
- Develop track alignment designs at both feasibility and detailed design stages for clients such as Network Rail, East West Rail, and contractors involved in smaller design-and-build projects, producing technical drawings, 3D models and more.
- Opportunity to work in a team across the country and beyond, whilst also working towards becoming a Chartered Engineer.
- As part of the Rail Division, you will also have the opportunity to rotate into other disciplines, typically two six-month placements, before returning to Track to complete your graduate scheme.
- Other disciplines include Stations & Civils, Signalling & Operations, Overhead Contact Systems, Rolling Stock and more, offering a well-rounded foundation in railway engineering.
Candidate Specification / Eligibility:
- Less than 12 months’ relevant experience (excluding placements).
- Have a bachelors / masters degree (obtained no earlier than 2025) or expected to achieve one of the following degree disciplines:
- Mechanical engineering
- Aerospace engineering
- Aeronautical Engineering
- For some opportunities, a master’s degree is essential – this is reflected in the list of opportunities in the application form.
- Demonstrate genuine interest in both the opportunity and joining Mott MacDonald; highlight relevant experience or interests such as modules studied, previous work experience, or research about company, values, projects.
- Applications reviewed personally, no AI tools used at this stage.
- UK Immigration: Not offering sponsorship under Skilled Worker visa route; cannot accept applications from candidates who would be working under Graduate visa route or other time-limited visas due to temporary nature and requirement for sponsorship under Skilled Worker route in future. Welcoming applications from candidates eligible for alternative immigration routes that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.
- AI Usage: Encourage responsible use of AI while ensuring we get to know the real person.
- Accessibility: Contact if need accommodations.
About Your Development:
- Graduate position should be more than just a job; aim to give experience and technical knowledge to progress career.
- From moment you join, receive training needed.
- Assigned a mentor to guide you to meet objectives of professional training needs.
- Join three-year early careers soft skills development programme – Accelerating your Future, designed to give skills and tools necessary for a long-lasting successful career.
- Social side: opportunity to expand social and professional network; sports and social committees; annual sports day; variety of sports, social and charity events; encouraged to suggest new events.
- Perks at Work: discounts on cinema tickets, travel, utilities and more.
- Agile working: hybrid working policy embracing well-being, flexibility, trust.
- Equality, diversity, inclusion: promote fair employment procedures, inclusive environment.
- Benefits: list (we will capture under Benefits).
- Employee Ownership: description.
- Health and wellbeing: private medical insurance, health cash plan, Peppy menopause support, comprehensive wellbeing program, ability to flex salary to opt into health benefits extendable to family.
- Lifestyle: 33 days holiday each year inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, ability to buy or sell leave via flexible benefits; 10 days additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers; holiday entitlement increased to minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service; variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers; enhanced family and carers leave (text cut off).
We need to capture Benefits section: includes Biannual salary reviews, pension match 4.5%-7%, life assurance up to 4x basic salary (option to increase to 6x), income protection scheme, flexible benefits (including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving, will writing), annual bonus schemes (as independently owned business), employee ownership model, private medical insurance, health cash plan, Peppy menopause support, wellbeing program, ability to flex salary for health benefits, 33 days holiday, 10 days additional leave for reservists, holiday entitlement increase to 35 days after 5 years, employee saving schemes and discounts, enhanced family and carers leave.
We need to ensure we don't include placeholder text like "commensurate with experience". Not present.
Pay: not specified; we should not include Pay section.
Schedule: not specified; we should not include Schedule section.
Now we need to output HTML fragment.
Structure:
About the role
About the role
... combined description ...
Responsibilities
- Mechanical Engineer (Tunnels): ...
- Track Engineer (Track): ...
At Mott MacDonald you’ll work alongside experts on meaningful projects, with support, learning opportunities and experience to grow your career from day one. The Graduate Mechanical Engineer (Tunnels) Systems role is based in Croydon and focuses on designing ventilation systems for road, rail, metro and cable tunnels, applying fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, heat transfer and aerodynamics to develop smoke control, pollution management, cooling and pressure relief solutions, undertaking engineering calculations and 1D simulations, and supporting concept design development into detailed equipment layouts. The Graduate Track Engineer role is based in Manchester and involves track alignment design, corridor modelling, gauging assessments, small project management, buffer stop risk assessments, producing technical drawings and 3D models, working towards Chartered Engineer status, and the opportunity to rotate into other rail disciplines through two six‑month placements.
That captures both. Responsibilities: we could list bullet points for each role.- Mechanical Engineer (Tunnels): contribute to ventilation system design for road, rail, metro and cable tunnels; develop solutions for smoke control, pollution management, cooling and pressure relief; apply fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, heat transfer and aerodynamics; undertake engineering calculations and numerical 1D simulations to understand airflow behaviour, temperature distribution,