Summer Work Experience Placement
| Posting date: | 28 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 25 August 2025 |
| Location: | East Sussex, BN1 4GU |
| Company: | FM Conway |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | ORG1531-MH1362543BriSWEP |
Summary
Kick-start your career with a paid summer placement at FM Conway, where you'll help shape the future of Brighton! This is your chance to gain hands-on experience with our Term Maintenance team, working on exciting projects, tackling real engineering challenges, and learning from experienced professionals in a supportive and dynamic environment.
Join us as we help revitalise the Valley Gardens area, urning it into a vibrant gateway to the city. You’ll contribute to reimagining green spaces, simplifying transport infrastructure, promoting sustainable travel, and boosting Brighton’s cultural and economic landscape. This is more than just a placement, it’s your opportunity to be part of something that makes a real, visible difference.
This paid Summer Work Experience Placement will run for 3–4 weeks and is based at Valley Gardens in Brighton. The placement can take place at any time during August or September 2025.
The duties of the Summer Work Experience Placement will include:
-Supporting the Term Maintenance project teams with data collection, testing, and reporting
-Assisting with on site management tasks, such as quality assurance, setting out, identifying issues and proposing solutions
-Participating in site inspections alongside engineers
-Analysing the state of material supply, storage and recommending improvements
-Attending team meetings and collaborate with engineers
What skills and experience do you need?
We’re looking for a current undergraduate student studying Civil Engineering or Construction, although recent graduates in these fields are also welcome to apply. If you have a strong interest in practical, hands-on engineering and thrive in a project-based environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you. You’ll need solid problem-solving skills, keen attention to detail, and the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively as part of a dynamic team.
A brief introduction to FM Conway and our Term Maintenance Division
FM Conway is a business of families with over 60 years’ experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care, Innovation, Integrity and Excellence. The heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family.
The FM Conway Term Maintenance division has been working in partnership with numerous councils for a number of years to deliver a variety of high-quality construction and maintenance services. These services cover assets such as carriageways, footways, highways, green environments and streetscapes, contribution to the dramatic transformation of the prestigious streets across London and surrounding boroughs. We are extremely proud of our efforts to make public spaces, safer, more efficient, and accessible, and this role will play a key part in delivering our vision.
So, if you would like to Join our Family as our Summer Work Experience Placement then please click ‘apply’ today.
Closing Date: 01/08/2025
FM Conway is an award-winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life. EDI-Strategy
At our heart we are a family that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Join us as we help revitalise the Valley Gardens area, urning it into a vibrant gateway to the city. You’ll contribute to reimagining green spaces, simplifying transport infrastructure, promoting sustainable travel, and boosting Brighton’s cultural and economic landscape. This is more than just a placement, it’s your opportunity to be part of something that makes a real, visible difference.
This paid Summer Work Experience Placement will run for 3–4 weeks and is based at Valley Gardens in Brighton. The placement can take place at any time during August or September 2025.
The duties of the Summer Work Experience Placement will include:
-Supporting the Term Maintenance project teams with data collection, testing, and reporting
-Assisting with on site management tasks, such as quality assurance, setting out, identifying issues and proposing solutions
-Participating in site inspections alongside engineers
-Analysing the state of material supply, storage and recommending improvements
-Attending team meetings and collaborate with engineers
What skills and experience do you need?
We’re looking for a current undergraduate student studying Civil Engineering or Construction, although recent graduates in these fields are also welcome to apply. If you have a strong interest in practical, hands-on engineering and thrive in a project-based environment, this is the perfect opportunity for you. You’ll need solid problem-solving skills, keen attention to detail, and the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively as part of a dynamic team.
A brief introduction to FM Conway and our Term Maintenance Division
FM Conway is a business of families with over 60 years’ experience of creating sustainable and innovative transportation solutions. We pride ourselves on our core values, creating a culture around Care, Innovation, Integrity and Excellence. The heart of FM Conway has, and always will be, its great people and we are always searching for talented individuals to join our family.
The FM Conway Term Maintenance division has been working in partnership with numerous councils for a number of years to deliver a variety of high-quality construction and maintenance services. These services cover assets such as carriageways, footways, highways, green environments and streetscapes, contribution to the dramatic transformation of the prestigious streets across London and surrounding boroughs. We are extremely proud of our efforts to make public spaces, safer, more efficient, and accessible, and this role will play a key part in delivering our vision.
So, if you would like to Join our Family as our Summer Work Experience Placement then please click ‘apply’ today.
Closing Date: 01/08/2025
FM Conway is an award-winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life. EDI-Strategy
At our heart we are a family that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for.
We look forward to receiving your application!
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