No particular age group, gender, race or region has a monopoly on great thinking. The people you work with at Octopodes Consulting are as diverse as the markets and communities we work within. You’ll find that we are also a place that welcomes diversity of opinion and the free thinking that goes with it. The diversity of our skills may surprise you, from planners, designers, and engineers to acousticians, consultants, and psychologists.

Of course, you only see the benefit of that diversity if individuals, cultures, opinions, and skills are networked together. Our skills networks do just that. You are wired into a community of several people worldwide. With offices in many countries, we are certainly geographically diverse. But ‘global’ at Arup does not just mean having offices in many countries. It means each office taking a global perspective informed by the diversity of people who work at Octopodes Consulting.

Do you have to choose between shaping a better career for yourself or helping to shape a better world for all of us? Work with Octopodes; you can build a sustainable career delivering a sustainable future for all of us. Of course, we operate in the real world but do so with a declared intent to bring sustainable design to our clients and the communities they operate within. We do not leave Corporate Social Responsibility to an annual report. It is part of the fabric of the firm. You can move your career to the next level working in a culture of like-minded individuals who bring their social conscience to work when tackling the big issues of today.

Octopodes is owned in trust for our people and run for our people and clients. So the future of the firm is in your hands, not the hands of dividend-focused shareholders or partners. You are not joining a mega-corporation built by acquisition. You are joining a highly successful culture that has grown organically by protecting its independence, its beliefs and its culture. Independence is not just a statement about our ownership. It translates into the independence of thought and of action.

Few truly great advances have been made in isolation. Newton or Archimedes may have had their solitary inspirations, but imagine what could have been achieved if they had met? We build diverse communities that collaborate on the big issues of today, helping to shape a better world. We use the freedom afforded by our ownership to afford you and your colleagues the freedom to create, unrestricted by the financial reporting and short-term focus of public companies.