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Graduate Training and Development

Gifford is committed to realising the full potential of its staff by providing training for all. We recognise the crucial need to develop our employees to achieve:

  • continuing Professional and Personal Development
  • career Satisfaction
  • membership of Learned Institutions
  • a Commitment to Health and Safety
  • a Caring Attitude to our Clients
  • creative and Technically Sound Sustainable Solutions
  • a Sustainable Business
  • personal Responsibility

Secondments

Secondments are a great way to support your professional and personal development as well as strengthening key business relationships. Gifford secondments are designed to support your objectives towards chartership status and are usually between six and twelve months in duration. You will experience new working environments, practical challenges and develop valuable transferable skills that will prove vital to your role on your return.

Overseas Volunteer Opportunities

Gifford supports charities such as Engineers Without Borders and RedR; and encourages staff to satisfy their personal aspirations by offering opportunities to participate in UK and overseas development work.

One of our recent projects:

In 2009 a team of young Gifford engineers developed a sustainable design for a rural classroom that can be built by local communities and used to create an entire school. Their design, which was prepared for the international non-profit organisation Building Tomorrow, won the worldwide ‘Open Architecture Competition’.