How to Apply to Ferrovial

Ferrovial SE (AMS: FER, NASDAQ: FER, formerly Ferrovial S.A. on the Madrid bolsa under FER) is one of the world's largest infrastructure operators and construction groups, with roughly 22,000 employees, projects on six continents, and a corporate footprint that spans an Amsterdam statutory headquarters (since the controversial 2023 redomicile from Madrid), a substantial continuing operating headquarters in Madrid (the historic Las Rozas campus and the Madrid Norte offices), the original family Sevilla connection, large country organisations in the United Kingdom (London), Poland (the long-standing Budimex subsidiary), Australia, the United States (Austin, Texas, increasingly the operational centre of gravity), Canada, Chile, Colombia, and Brazil. The Group was founded in 1952 by Rafael del Pino y Moreno as a Spanish railway construction contractor and grew across the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s into a diversified Spanish construction and concessions house before the 1999 IPO on the Madrid stock exchange transformed it into a publicly traded global infrastructure platform. The Del Pino family, through Rijn Capital BV and related vehicles, retains roughly a 21% economic interest and remains the reference shareholder. Rafael del Pino Calvo-Sotelo, the founder's son, is Executive Chairman. Ignacio Madridejos has been Chief Executive Officer since October 2019, succeeding Inigo Meiras, and runs the Group from Madrid with frequent travel to Amsterdam, Austin, and the major project geographies. The business is organised around four main divisions. Cintra is the toll road concessions arm and is the single most important profit and cash flow contributor to the Group; it owns and operates a portfolio of managed-lane and traditional toll concessions in the United States (the North Tarrant Express segments in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, the LBJ Express also in DFW, the I-66 Express Lanes outside Washington DC opened in 2022, plus shareholdings in NTE 35W and other Texas projects), the legendary 407 ETR in the Greater Toronto Area (Ferrovial holds approximately 43% of 407 International Inc., the long-life Ontario electronic toll motorway that is widely regarded as one of the best infrastructure assets in the world), Spanish toll roads, and concessions in Chile, Colombia, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Slovakia, and Australia. The US managed-lane portfolio in particular is the cash cow: the Texas concessions benefit from population growth, congestion-priced dynamic tolling, and very long concession terms. Construction (Ferrovial Construccion, including the Polish-listed subsidiary Budimex and the US subsidiary Webber) is the historical core of the Group, executing civil works, transport infrastructure, hydraulic engineering, and building projects across Spain, Poland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Chile, and Australia. Airports has been through a major portfolio rotation: the Group sold its long-held approximately 25% stake in Heathrow Airport Holdings in two tranches that closed in 2024, and now retains AGS Airports (the consortium that owns Aberdeen, Glasgow, and Southampton airports in the UK), the Dalaman concession in Turkey, and a development pipeline of new airport opportunities including the proposed New Terminal One project at JFK in New York where Ferrovial is part of the development consortium. Energy Infrastructure and Mobility brings together transmission lines, energy efficiency projects, and emerging mobility platforms. The candid corporate history matters for any candidate. In February 2023 the Ferrovial board proposed and the shareholders approved a cross-border merger that moved the parent company's statutory seat from Madrid to Amsterdam and reorganised it as a Dutch SE (Societas Europaea), Ferrovial SE. The official rationale was to obtain a primary listing in a jurisdiction that would qualify the company for a US listing and to harmonise governance with the international shareholder base. The political reception in Spain was openly hostile: Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's coalition government criticised the move publicly, accusing the company of leaving Spain, the Spanish Securities Market Commission (CNMV) raised technical objections that were ultimately resolved, and the redomicile dominated Spanish business media for months. Ferrovial completed the move in June 2023 and listed in Amsterdam, retained its Madrid listing in parallel, and in May 2024 added the NASDAQ secondary listing under the same FER ticker, completing the strategic objective. The episode shapes everything about how the Group communicates today: it presents itself as Dutch-domiciled, internationally diversified, and US-strategically-focused, while continuing to be operationally Spanish-led with most senior executives based in Madrid and most corporate functions retained on the Las Rozas campus. For a job candidate the practical implications are that Amsterdam HQ roles exist (and are growing) but are mostly governance, investor relations, treasury, tax, and listed-company secretarial functions; the bulk of professional hiring continues to happen in Madrid, Austin, London, Warsaw, and the project sites. Competitively the Group sits in two distinct peer sets that you should understand before interview. In Spanish infrastructure and construction the peers are ACS Group (the Florentino Perez vehicle that owns Hochtief and Cimic and is materially larger by revenue), FCC (Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas, controlled by Carlos Slim), Sacyr, Acciona (which is far more weighted to renewables and water than Ferrovial), and OHLA (the restructured Villar Mir construction business). Internationally the peers are Skanska of Sweden, Vinci of France (the gold-standard concessions and construction integrated player), Bouygues Construction of France, Bechtel of the United States (private, very large), Strabag of Austria, Hochtief (now part of ACS), and the global engineering and construction houses like AECOM and Jacobs that overlap on the design and management side. In US toll concessions specifically, Cintra competes against Transurban (the Australian toll road operator that is dominant in the Northern Virginia Express Lanes corridor and is Cintra's most direct managed-lane competitor in the US), Macquarie's infrastructure funds, Brookfield Infrastructure, and several pension-fund-led consortia. The Heathrow stake sale in 2024 has been read by some commentators as a signal that the Group is rotating capital from European airport equity into North American managed lanes, where the unit economics are stronger and where the political and regulatory environment is, paradoxically, more predictable than in modern post-pandemic UK aviation. Hiring through 2024 and 2025 has reflected that pivot, with notable concentration on US toll project pipelines, US construction expansion through Webber, and the Madrid-Austin axis for technology, data, traffic and revenue management, and concessions financial control roles.