Recruiter Profile: Atkins

Atkins is an international design, engineering & management consultancy. Our clients choose Atkins to plan, design and enable their major projects across a wide range of disciplines.

We are the largest engineering consultancy in the UK, the largest multi-disciplinary consultancy in Europe and the eighth largest global design firm. Atkins generates an annual turnover in excess of £1.3bn and our unrivalled reputation stems from the 18,000 skilled specialists who work at our offices throughout the globe.

Our Water & Environment team is home to over 1800 technical and professional experts who command an excellent industry reputation in project delivery and operations support. We are
at the leading edge of innovative solutions and have won numerous technology & design awards.

Within Water & Environment our key business areas include:

• Geotechnics and Tunnelling
  
• Water & Waste Water Engineering
• Environmental & Sustainability Consultancy
  
• Rivers & Coastal Engineering, Flood Defences & Dams
  
• Geospatial Solutions
  
• Water Resources & Network Management
  
• Planning, Landscape & Urban Design

Source information:

Atkins has topped the league of UK engineering consultancies for the last 11 years and has been ranked in the top 10 over the last 14 years (NCE Consultants File 1994-2008).
In ENR magazine's Top 200 Global Design firms league table (2008) Atkins is ranked 8th in terms of revenue.
The company is Building magazine's Engineering Consultancy Of The Year 2008.