Why join Narro?
For over 35 years we’ve taken on graduate engineers and given them a fantastic start to their careers. With a broad range of projects, from smaller domestic projects to large commercial and civil infrastructure schemes, there’s great opportunities to gain experience across every aspect of engineering.
Our graduate salaries are competitive and the responsibility and opportunity for growth is significant. Many of our senior team started out as graduates here, including our Managing Director!
We are an employee-owned company so when the company profits, our employees profit too. All our employees receive an equal share of an annual bonus, and they can also purchase shares directly and receive annually paid dividends.
The annual Narro Study Trip is a big part of our year, where you get to learn a little more about the culture and architecture of a European city, with hotels and flights covered by the Practice. More importantly, it’s a fantastic team building event!
Background
Since the formation of Narro, we have aimed to be innovative and practical in design. We are committed to maintaining a diverse knowledge base within our organisation and sustainability in our design. Narro has several CARE accredited engineers and are well respected for our work on historic structures such as castles and monuments. We have specialists that work on exciting new projects involving large structures such as distilleries and galleries and we now have a number of engineers who have earned accreditation in Passivhaus design. Our commitment to innovation and sustainability keeps clients coming back and attracts engineers to work with us.
Breadth of Work
Our graduates work on a wide range of projects and are given the opportunity to work with multiple teams to get a taste for the kind of work they enjoy. They often start with small domestic projects to help gain an understanding of how we operate. In their first projects, they will be guided through handling project finances and liaising with different members of the design team, internally and externally. We aim to give them lots of time on site in their first few months and help them get to grips with the design basics. By the end of their first year, they might find themselves designing castle repairs, large distilleries or even working on the Scottish National Galleries!
Support and Mentorship
Our supervising engineers have decades of experience in helping our graduate engineers gain the knowledge and ability to become fully chartered and responsible engineers. Many of our senior engineers have joined directly from university and now run our teams and sign off on exciting projects worth millions of pounds! The more our graduates learn, the more we learn, so if there is anything you want to learn about, we will encourage you to do so!
Responsibilities
- Designing and analysing structures – our graduates typically start performing calculations and modelling for senior engineers. This presents the opportunity for our them to learn. Once you have sufficient knowledge, you’re given the opportunity to come up with scheme designs that are efficient and practical.
- Communicating and working with others – our engineers must communicate clearly with technicians to produce clear and high-quality drawings to be submitted to our clients, architects and contractors. Liaising and collaborating with architects and contractors is critical in bringing our clients’ visions to life.
- Workload management and taking responsibility – our graduates are instantly given control of project finances and deadlines, under guidance of our senior and project engineers. Most of our engineers also carry some extra responsibilities, such as helping build our knowledge on sustainable design or helping organise our study trip and social events!
- Learning and innovating – it is important that our engineers are learning how to design different structural elements, maintain structural stability and gaining an appreciation of architectural and construction constraints.
- Getting involved! – More important than anything else, we expect our engineers to ask questions and speak to others to keep our workplace open and friendly.
How to Apply
We expect our graduates to hold, or expect to achieve, a degree related to Civil or Structural engineering at 2:1 level or above. We want all our engineers to feel confident and become fully responsible for their designs, so we expect our graduates to have a passion for engineering and work towards an ICE or IStructE qualification.
If you’re interested in applying to work for Narro, please prepare a CV and cover letter apply below. We appreciate that you may not have had any directly applicable work experience, but please include all positions or interests that demonstrate your suitability for the role. The cover letter should include why you are interested in structural and/or engineering and reasons to hire you.
We review applications on a rolling basis so there can be a benefit to applying early, but we review most applications shortly after the closing date published. If you make it through this stage, one of our team leaders will carry out your main interview, which is usually no longer than 30 minutes. You may then also have a short interview with one of our directors, to make sure you truly will be a great fit!
