Graduate Environmental Consultant Bristol/Cardiff/Newcastle 2022

For this opportunity, we welcome applications from individuals that are eligible to apply for / currently hold a Graduate visa. As appropriate, any offer we make will be conditional upon your visa application being approved.

Please be aware that we can only accept one application during each recruitment period, so please only apply for the position that suits you best. If you decide to apply for a different role, please withdraw your first application before submitting the new one.

Launch your career with Arup

Arup is an independent firm of designers, planners, engineers, architects, consultants and technical specialists, working across every aspect of today's built environment. Together we help our clients solve their most complex challenges – turning exciting ideas into tangible reality as we strive to find a better way and shape a better world.

Are you interested in a career in Environmental Consultancy?

Right now, we're looking for Graduate Consultants to join our team of bright professionals. As our consulting team offers a multidisciplinary service, we are looking for Graduates with diverse skills and interests.

From your first day, you'll join an unrivalled community of experts, where you will be supported and mentored in your chosen career path and encouraged to work towards a professional qualification (such as professional membership of IEMA, IES, RTPI, CIWM or CIWEM) during the early years of your career with us.

You'll help us to deliver effective and professional services for a range of varied and high-profile clients. While you'll have good level of responsibility from day one, we'll give you the chance to take on more as you progress and broaden your skills.

You will gain a thorough understanding and experience of the role of an environmental consultant whilst gaining the breadth of experience needed to achieve your professional qualification.

Overview of role

This is an opportunity for a Graduate Environmental Consultant to join our successful, growing environmental teams in the UK.

• Work across a variety of major projects and frameworks, primarily across the Energy, Water and Transport markets.
• Be part of a wider consulting team, working in a truly integrated and multi-disciplinary way collaborating with our colleagues across the UK and internationally.
• Based in Arup's Cardiff or Bristol office, with an expectation of a high level of mobility between these offices and throughout the UK as projects require.
• Providing robust environmental assessment, and consenting expertise to major energy, water and transport frameworks including focus on resilience, enhancement and sustainability.
• Taking a key role in relationship building and work winning with a focus on the energy, water and transport sectors.

We anticipate this role will be varied but will focus on the collation, interpretation and reporting of environmental data, using a range of GIS tools and other packages.

Your day-to-day responsibilities could include the following

• Conducting desk studies, including sourcing and evaluating environmental information.
• Coordination of internal colleagues and external sub-consultants.
• Collaborating with multidisciplinary project teams comprising clients, internal specialists and sub-consultants.
• Preparation of clear and concise statutory and non-statutory environmental reports (PEIR, EIA, HRA, WFD, etc.), permits, licenses and consents in line with legislative requirements.
• Use of ArcGIS and other software to produce high quality drawings to accompany technical reports.
• Managing delivery and budgets on small-scale projects.
• Planning your workload so that you can deliver on time or ahead of target.
• Inputting to the team's research projects.

What are we looking for?

We encourage our Graduate Consultants to demonstrate drive and motivation, a thorough understanding of our sector, and a desire to effectively deliver an excellent technical service to our clients. With a busy, diverse team, we seek individuals who can work flexibly and respond to the needs of our clients. As such, we are looking for the following qualifications, skills, and attributes in you:

• Degree and/or masters in an environmental related topic (minimum 2.1).
• Accreditation with IEMA, IES, CIWEM, or similar.
• Capacity to work in a multi-disciplinary team with other groups (e.g. Ecology, Planning, Landscape, Heritage, etc.).
• Experience in the use of GIS packages (notably ArcGIS).
• An appreciation and understanding of environmental law.
• Capable of identifying issues, risks and opportunities and communicating these to project teams.

You must be available to start this opportunity in September 2022.

What we offer you

Beyond a great salary and stimulating, technically challenging work, Arup offers a range of additional benefits to its people.

As a membership organisation, everyone shares in our success through a global profit share scheme. Our people also have access to a range of broader wellbeing benefits.

You'll have access to lots of learning opportunities including a structured induction and ongoing training through Arup university.

Additionally, you'll have the opportunity to utilise your technical expertise to improve the lives of the most vulnerable in the communities in which we live and work through Arup's community engagement programme.

Next steps

Complete the application form, attaching any required documents. We'll be reviewing applications on a rolling basis. You are therefore strongly encouraged to apply in advance of the application deadline. Our assessment centres for this opportunity will take place from December 2021.

Different people, shared values

At Arup we believe when talented people collaborate, great things are possible. We are taking deliberate action to create an inclusive culture that is grounded in our purpose to shape a better world. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome all backgrounds.

Arup is committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to candidates with disabilities. We strongly encourage you to share any adjustments that will support your participation in our recruitment process. Please contact: uk.recruitment@arup.com.

At Arup, we appreciate that everyone's circumstances are different and having the freedom to flex the way we work is essential to our wellbeing. If flexibility matters to you let us know when you apply and we will discuss how this could work in your role.

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