Job Specifications
The Opportunity
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Application Deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.
We're looking for a Graduate Building Physics Engineer to join our progressive, award-winning Mechanical & Electrical Engineering team in our Leeds office, joining our 2026 Graduate Programme, where you'll be delivering sustainable projects for our communities, planet and society.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team which specialises in the delivery of building services, energy and sustainability services, where we offer a fresh approach by getting involved early, working collaboratively with the design team, guiding design development and using our expertise to help clients make key decisions – an approach that always results in a building that delivers.
Our Building Physics Engineers contribute technical expertise to building performance and energy modelling projects across the UK. You will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams to optimise building performance and deliver practical, low-carbon design solutions.
As a Stantec graduate, you will collaborate with your team and wider cohort, developing your expertise within an exciting and creative interdisciplinary environment and will benefit from strong support from both office and technical colleagues, as well as significant guidance from senior staff within our open and collaborative culture.
Your Role
Working on live projects from the start in a variety of sectors from healthcare to education
Mechanical services design and calculations
Working with supervisors on scheme design concepts
Using Revit and 3D BIM modelling software in design production
Design co-ordination with other professional disciplines
Producing detailed designs and drawings
Input into or development of energy and sustainability strategy and dynamic thermal modelling
Participating in design team and client meetings
Undertaking site visits or surveys
Researching and implementing new technologies
Continuous CPD and learning opportunities
Your typical work might include Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Control Systems, above ground drainage systems and hot and cold-water services.
Take a look at one of our projects - Manchester SEMH Schools - MEP Design , and review the career journey of our Stantec graduates here:- Stantec | Career Stories
About You
At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with a degree and/or master’s qualification in a relevant mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or building services engineering subject, and a keen interest in our industry, we’d love to receive your application if you are:
An Adapter: You’re able to remain calm in new and changing situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.
A Perseverer: You stay composed in the face of setbacks, approaching challenges with confidence and determination.
A Collaborator: You work effectively with lots of different people, considering others’ perspectives to shape better outcomes.
A Problem-Solver: You love to give your thoughts based on what you see, being unafraid to challenge conventional thinking.
Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office at least 4 days per week, to ensure that colleagues are able to provide the appropriate level of support.
What We Can Offer You
A competitive salary
Private medical insurance
A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection and life assurance
Permanent employment contract to demonstrate our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec
Professional progression plan, supporting you to attain professional status
A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups )
Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK for an indefinite period without limitation.
Please take a look at our Graduate FAQs ( Graduate Application FAQs ) if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your application!
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About Stantec
The Stantec community unites more than 34,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.
Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and
About the Company
Stantec empowers clients, people, and communities to rise to the world’s greatest challenges at a time when the world faces more unprecedented concerns than ever before.
We are a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. Our professionals deliver the expertise, technology, and innovation communities need to manage aging infrastructure, demographic and population changes, the energy transition, and more.
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