I am now a Graduate Engineer at AECOM, a multinational premier infrastructure consulting firm. I work with the pavement design and asset management team, originally based in Nottingham. We have now been offered greater flexibility to work from home full-time while providing all necessary equipment for a home office, which is a great forward-looking approach in the engineering sector.

Within my team, I work on standard evaluations, including everything from planning site work and analysing site data to producing reports for our clients. I also work on projects for Highways England, including the M54-M6 Link Road project and the A303 Stonehenge project. I also handle several long-term contracts with clients. In addition, I am now the A303 Efficiency Lead where I collaborate with a range of contractors and sub-contractors of all disciplines to facilitate £43 million pounds of savings across four years through reduced costs, alternative designs, and improved processes.

I initially worked with AECOM after I finished my A-Levels by completing a Year in Industry (YINI), supported by the Engineering Development Trust (EDT). During my studies at Loughborough, I continued with summer placements at AECOM where I took on different projects to improve several skills while I was studying. Right now, I have begun a two-year graduate scheme and I’m on my route to Chartership (CEng), which I aim to complete within five years.