About Atkins

Atkins is the largest UK employer of technical people with operations in the UK and Europe, Middle East, India, China and North America.

With a turnover of £1.5 billion and around 18,000 employees worldwide, they are the largest engineering consultancy in the UK and the largest multi disciplinary consultancy in the UK. Atkins operate across several sectors including aerospace, buildings, defence, education, energy, environment, health, industry, oil & gas, telecoms, transport, urban development, water.

Atkins holds unrivalled status amongst their peers which is clear from a number of recent independent surveys, which confirm:

• Atkins are the fourth largest employer of civil and structural staff in the world and largest in the UK (NCE Consultants file 2009)
• Building Magazine’s Engineering Consultancy of the Year 2008
• Ranked in the Times top 100 Graduate Employers (69th), in the Times top 50 places where women want to work and listed 10th in the Times top 20 best big companies to work for

Plan Design Enable

Atkins provide consultancy to a wide variety of clients, and due to their extraordinary breadth and depth of knowledge, their solutions might involve the design of a new skyscraper, the upgrade of a rail network or the improvement of a business process. What is more, their clients rely on their input at all stages of the development process:
Atkins plan all aspects of our clients’ projects, conducting studies into technical, logistical, legal, environmental and financial issues.
They design cutting-edge solutions, incorporating tried and tested technologies, to achieve the best possible results for our clients. These include systems, processes, buildings and civil structures.
They enable complex programmes, delivering one-off projects and managing processes to reduce timescales, cost and disruption, allowing our clients to focus on their core operations

Highways & Transportation Division

As the leading consultant in the highways & transportation sector, Atkins provides integrated, sustainable and innovative highway, traffic and transportation solutions, both in the UK and internationally.

Atkins is leading the way in supporting highways authorities with a comprehensive service that delivers far-sighted planning, innovative design and intelligent maintenance as well as a innovative traffic operations solutions.