Careers: construction & engineering jobs and apprenticeships
At Tilbury Douglas, we are committed to helping our employees build careers in the construction industry with us. We have a core of experienced employees supporting and mentoring a vibrant population of colleagues in their early careers, many studying for professional memberships or apprenticeship qualifications at all levels.
Join us in building a better future… together
It’s our people that make Tilbury Douglas a success.
We believe that our inclusive culture encourages new ways of thinking, which enables us to innovate and remain resilient. We value and celebrate all individual differences.
Whether you are looking for the next steps in pursuing your construction and engineering career or want an exciting working environment with a great team ethos, we are always looking for ambitious people to join our regional building, engineering, infrastructure or fit-out businesses.
Construction apprenticeships, graduate schemes and placements
We are passionate about recruiting and developing our own talent for the future.
We recruit on an annual basis for those interested in pursuing construction and engineering apprenticeships, graduate schemes, and placements (a year out/gap year, and summer placement). Construction job categories include: quantity surveying, construction management, bidding/proposals and business administration to name a few.
Find out moreOur values
Take pride in what you do
We celebrate our achievements, share our experiences and define the next best-practice standards for future generations across our business.
Everyone has a voice
We strive to bring more diversity into our business through recruitment and specialist partnerships, and with diversity comes a strong culture of inclusivity. We ensure that everyone’s voice is heard through open-door policies and community events throughout the business.
Do the right thing
We go to the nth degree for our clients, always approaching a project with a can-do attitude that is grounded in experience.
Bring better to life
We challenge ourselves and our clients to push our work further, to deliver a greater, sustainable and societal impact.
Better Together is the name for all of our diversity and inclusion initiatives across Tilbury Douglas.
Being better together means our differences are valued and celebrated and our workplaces are free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination.
Being inclusive means we all feel comfortable sharing our ideas and perspectives, because our differences are respected and valued. Everyone has a voice, and everyone will be heard. Every employee feels safe, accepted, and appreciated with an equal opportunity to grow and succeed at Tilbury Douglas.
We have four Better Together employee networks:
- ‘multiculTureD’ is about making a positive difference in our workplace and creating a culture that promotes, values and celebrates diversity
- ‘Women @ Tilbury Douglas’ promotes an inclusive environment that promotes and demonstrates gender equality, amplifying the progress of women within the organisation
- ‘Pride’ aims to create greater visibility of LGBTQIA+ individuals in construction
- Our disability network helps raise awareness about seen and unseen disabilities and how they may affect colleagues
Tilbury Douglas has successfully achieved the National Centre for Diversity’s (NCD) full Investors in Diversity Standard. This demonstrates that we’ve committed to building a culture based on ‘FREDIE’ values:
- Fairness for all is a reality
- Respect for all is the norm
- Equality of opportunity for all is embedded
- Diverse employees feel that they belong
- Inclusion is widely understood
- Engagement amongst colleagues
We have also successfully achieved The Menopause Friendly Accreditation.
We are also proud to be winners of the Most Inclusive Company award at the prestigious Women in Construction Awards 2024, and our Social Value and Sustainability Director, Lucy Davies, won the Best Contribution to Gender Diversity Award at the 2024 Inspiring Women in Construction Awards.
Privacy notice
Tilbury Douglas is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information.
You can view our privacy notice for online recruitment data here.
A message for recruitment agencies
In accordance with GDPR regulations, we will not accept unsolicited on spec CVs from any recruitment agencies (other than from the candidates themselves) and do not accept unsolicited communications from external recruiters.
Tilbury Douglas has a Preferred Supplier List (PSL) and all agencies are expected to respect and adhere to our processes in place. An agency or independent recruiter must have a current, signed agreement, to be invited to supply candidates for a specific vacancy with Tilbury Douglas before presenting any candidates.
Candidates will only be accepted through our Applicant Tracking System (eArcu). The submission of unsolicited on spec CVs outside of this process or without a signed agreement will not create any obligation on the part of Tilbury Douglas to pay a fee of any kind and will be in breach of GDPR compliance.
If there is a specific business need, a member of our Recruitment team will engage external recruiters from our PSL directly. Please do not speculatively contact other Tilbury Douglas employees.