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You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.\nWSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consultancies. In the UK, our Building Structures team has been successfully delivering capital national infrastructure projects in the Energy sector-particularly within Transmission and Distribution-since the early 1990s. Over this time, our design teams have become recognised as exemplars in the delivery of large, complex, multi-disciplinary projects.\nWe are now entering an exciting phase of growth and are looking to expand our team of Professional Structural Engineers and Technicians. 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