Graduate, Placement & Entry Level Roles

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Recruitment At EDC

We recruit best-in-class graduates across our 5 offices in Cork, Dublin, Mid-West, London and Istanbul and ensure we develop our graduates to become fully qualified Junior Engineers after completing our 2-year graduate programme.

Professional Development

Every new starter with EDC is assigned a mentor to support their development. We identify each graduate's key competencies and look to develop these in a structured programme to ensure you have the technical and professional skills you require to be successful in your career.

Personal Development

We ensure that not only do you have the technical skills to succeed, but you have the soft skills to continue your professional career progression. These include communication and presentation skills, project management training, and additional technical report writing skills.

Sector Opportunities

You will take part in structured rotation opportunities throughout the company to ensure better understanding, greater efficiency and team integration across the company. These can include the areas of BIM, Project Management, Energy and Business Development.

We’ve got you covered

From day one you will be working on diverse and innovative large-scale projects and learning from our in-house assigned mentor and the wider team. All staff at EDC have a personalised and dedicated career progression framework including guidance and support to progress towards professional chartership ensuring you can grow and thrive with EDC.

“When you have good people...Anything is Possible!”

“One of my highlights to date has been issuing my first electrical tender pack after 3 months at EDC. It was certainly a challenging experience but support from senior engineers was always available when required.”

Aidan Drennan, Electrical Engineer

Meet Our Engineers.

Ardal

“There have been many highlights for me. When I arrived in the Cork office I was trusted and given the freedom to work on drawings with the support of my mentor.”

Ardal O'Connell, Placement Student

One of the main reasons I chose EDC was the opportunity to work on exciting new large-scale projects in London with the bonus of great company culture! 

Jessica Mullen, Electrical Engineer

Your life, Our answers

Explore our FAQ’s to learn more about life and work with EDC.

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We know you live a busy life and so, we have adopted a hiring process that is targeted and streamlined. We focus on your fit with EDC as well as your technical skill match.

  1. Apply – Find an open role that interests you with EDC via one of our recruitment channels.
  2. Review – Applications are read by real engineering managers who are both experts in interpreting resumes and are familiar with all EDC’s jobs within a talent segment—not just the one you applied for.
  3. Interview – We use a competencies-based interviewing process that is intended to help us minimize unconscious bias while also making sure we hire people who will thrive within EDC.
  4. Offer – We ensure we come back as quickly as possible with regards to whether you will be made an offer. If you verbally accept, we will send an official written offer and begin the onboarding process.

We believe in creating the right kind of environment that enables you to feel like you can do a good job and still be able to prioritize important things in your personal life. Work-life balance fundamentally means flexibility, so that’s why we offer flexible working options for all our staff here at EDC. 

Our graduates enjoy the same benefits as all our staff. This includes a competitive salary, 23 days annual leave, mentorship, training sponsorship and assistance with professional accreditations. 

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