Overview
Key details
Title: Year Out Placement – Start date September 2026
Location: Cardiff/Bristol, Slough/Oxford, Plymouth/Exeter
Contract type: Year Out Placement
Applications close: 31 December 2025
Functions: Early Careers
Locations: Cardiff/Bristol, Slough/Oxford or Plymouth/Exeter
Project Based/Office Based, with flexibility for occasional remote working
We have opportunities to join our award-winning Year-Out Programme starting in September 2026.
About Morgan Sindall
Morgan Sindall Construction is an Investors in People Platinum employer providing national construction services to private and public sector customers across a range of markets. Together, we create great results for our customers, partners and people. We are one of the UK’S most successful Tier 1 contractors. As a progressive and ambitious company, our employees benefit from a safe and rewarding working environment.
We are seeking:-
- a Year-Out Design Manager student for Cardiff
- a Year-Out Quantity Surveyor student for Slough
- a Year-Out Design Manager student for Slough
- a Year-Out Quantity Surveyor student for Plymouth
You will be primarily focused within the Quantity Surveying, Site Management or Design Management disciplines, but will also take part in rotations in some of the following areas;
- Digital Construction & Sustainability
- Preconstruction & Programming
- Commercial
- Safety, Health & Environment
- Site Management
- Planning
- Design Management
You’ll gain valuable experience by working on real projects alongside graduates and experienced professionals. We will encourage Year-out placements to document their Year-out through case studies and gathering evidence to demonstrate competencies within your chosen discipline and wider construction experience.
What are we looking for?
We are looking for people who are genuinely interested in our company and have a passion for one of the disciplines we are offering opportunities for, Quantity Surveying, Site Management and Design Management within construction. Our most successful students have a positive attitude, want to learn, link disciplines and the next natural step in construction through working well with others.
You should share our passion for the project at hand and enjoy working in an inclusive and hardworking team environment. At Morgan Sindall Construction our employees work collectively, encouraging and challenging each other to succeed. Across our business we treat everyone equally and have developed a community where voices are heard, and respected.
What can we offer you?
Working in our Construction Central and West Business Units, you will be part of a growing and dynamic team of people who are passionate about what they do and enjoy the challenge and pace of work in a hardworking and fun construction environment. No day will be the same and we challenge each other to deliver what’s right for our customers.
Our culture is so important to us and defines the way we go about our business. We are inclusive, supportive and team focused and take pride in the longstanding and committed relationships we have with our supply chain partners.
If you are interested in furthering your career in an inclusive and supportive environment, apply to us today.
Equality Statement
Morgan Sindall Construction seeks to recruit the best person for each of our roles, based on merit alone and free from bias. We’re committed to treating all our job applicants fairly and with respect, irrespective of their background, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
We recruit individuals who embody our core values of professionalism, expertise and trust which has given us a fantastic variety of people and cultures across our organisation.
We celebrate our diverse teams who make Morgan Sindall Construction the inclusive, collaborative and rewarding place it is to work. We hire the best in the industry, provide them the support to achieve their goals and challenge them to make a real impact on our business. If you want to join an organisation that truly sees and harnesses what makes you unique, apply to us today.
Diversity and Inclusion Statement
Our aim is to create a workplace built on acceptance, respect, and inclusion, where everyone feels that they belong and can make a meaningful contribution. We encourage applicants regardless of religion, ethnicity, nationality, disability status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family, or parental status. Morgan Sindall Construction is an equal opportunities employer and has been accredited with the Positive About Disabled People ‘Two Ticks’ accreditation. We are also an Investors in People company.
Morgan Sindall is unable to employ anyone who does not have the legal right to live and work in the UK. In the recruitment process all applicants are required to provide the necessary right to work information and documentation.
Recruitment Process
3 stage application process:
- Apply online – Apply early as we recruit on a first come first serve basis, once all of our positions are full we close applications
- Within your application you must identify the role and location you wish to be considered for.
- In-Person interview with the recruiting line manager who will be responsible for you during your Year-Out time at Morgan Sindall.
- Successful applicants are notified!
Applications open in October 2025 Year Out Employment will close 31st December 2025 ahead of interviews being held in early 2025.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
