You’ll receive the same outstanding training and support as our graduates, including access to our early careers training development days. Plus, your placement year could count towards your Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) journey to becoming a Chartered Surveyor.
Our year placement roles are predominantly based within our Infrastructure division where your work may span from working on small-scale maintenance and refurbishment projects to acquiring rights for nationally significant infrastructure projects, involving hundreds of landowners. You will play a pivotal role in successfully delivering these schemes from day one, across the water, electricity, gas and hydrogen markets.
Your work won’t just be on projects above the ground you’ll also, be involved in below-ground projects, from maintaining and repairing existing infrastructure to brand new projects on a national scale. You’ll help shape the future of our communities, ensuring access to water, electricity and fuel for generations to come!
As a placement surveyor you will be fully emersed in a fast-evolving surveying sector, playing a critical role in achieving the Government net zero targets by 2050.
Applications for 2026 are now closed, however you can register your details for when we open in 2027 here.
We value a diverse range of transferable skills from both cognate and non-cognate courses. We look for individuals who can:
- Confidently communicate and engage with people
- Build strong working relationships and work collaboratively
- Approach challenges with a positive, can-do attitude and problem-solving mindset
- Show a genuine interest in the built environment and surveying as a career
- Work independently and take initiative
- Be a creative thinker, with strong attention to detail
We welcome placement applications from all universities and courses. So, do not worry if your degree is not accredited by the RICS or RTPI, or isn’t in a property and surveying subject. We recognise the importance of gaining work experience and our year placement is ideal to gain relevant experience.
We are keen for you to showcase a full picture of you and to demonstrate experience on your application from education, extracurricular sporting/social groups and work or volunteering.
Our ‘One FG’ ethos is embedded into our culture. While we work incredibly hard, we also know how to have fun! Being part of a socially and digitally connected workforce means you can participate in a variety of activities, including sports events, celebrations, charity events, CPD days and much more. Giving back to our community is important to us, and we are always looking for new ways to get involved in volunteering days and fundraising events.
We also have a comprehensive list of benefits - View our Colleague benefits
From September 2025, our application and recruitment process will be changing. We will now ask you to complete an application form, answer some standard questions and attach your CV. We will no longer require a cover letter, however, please make sure to answer the questions as best and honestly as you can.
Below is an outline of our recruitment process and approximate timelines (subject to change)
| Application window | Applications open 8 September 2025. Closing date 16 November 2025 |
| Face to face interviews | November / December 2025 |
| Offers made to successful applicants | December 2025/ January 2026 |
| Start with Fisher German! | Summer 2026 |
Please read our Application/Interview Process FAQ's for more information