Graduate Environment 2024

Learn how we take care of the built, natural and historic environments surrounding our roads network and help us create a more sustainable future.

What you'll be doing

Our thee-year Environment graduate programme gives you the opportunity to be at the heart of exciting projects making significant improvements to the environments surrounding our roads and local communities.

Guided and mentored by our experienced team, you’ll take on projects and responsibilities that will build on your existing environmental skills and knowledge. You’ll be involved with:

• Providing technical advice to our major schemes and operations teams
• Helping to develop our environmental policy
• Reviewing proposals for environmental improvements
• Environmental research and development projects
• Communicating with a variety of stakeholders, including environmental bodies and our supply chain

You’ll be able to apply your learning across a range of environmental disciplines linked to our key areas of work, such as:

• Environmental assessment and design
• Cultural heritage/archaeology
• Ecology
• Noise
• Air quality
• Water management
• Carbon management
• Landscape
• Planning

Beyond the programme, you’ll have opportunities to continue your career journey with us and play a vital role in caring for the environments and communities surrounding our strategic road network for years to come.

What you'll get in return

With our support, you’ll enjoy the chance to own your development to get the best out of your time on the programme. So, if you're looking to grow your career in a large, evolving organisation and ready to invest in your development, all our graduate programmes offer:

• A mix of workshops, on-job-training and ‘hands on’ experience
• A dedicated line manager and mentoring from senior managers to provide encouragement, direction and career planning support
• Flexible working arrangements
• Peer networking and support through our Early Talent community
• Opportunities to move your career to the next level after you successfully complete the programme

As well as a competitive salary and plenty of career development support, you’ll also have access to a fantastic employee benefits package. Find out more about the benefits we offer at National Highways.

What you'll need to succeed

If you have the passion to succeed that we see in our graduates every day, you’ll be a great match for our programme.

You’ll have

• An enthusiastic, collaborative approach to working with others
• The ability to communicate in different formats with a variety of stakeholders
• Excellent co-ordination skills
• The ability to plan and prioritise effectively to meet deadlines
• A focus on quality and integrity in everything you do

Essential qualification requirements

• An undergraduate (e.g. BA, BSc) degree at 2:2 or above in environmental assessment, environmental design or other environment or sustainability-focussed subject area in line with our key areas of work. This includes but is not limited to cultural heritage/archaeology, ecology, noise, air quality, water management, carbon management, landscape or planning

It is key to know all offers to onto our graduate schemes are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks. This includes a Right to Work check, reference check and a DBS criminal record check.

About us

National Highways operates, maintains and improves England’s strategic road network made up of motorways and major A roads. These vital arteries account for a third of all traffic, carry two thirds of heavy goods vehicles, and are relied on by 98% of the UK’s businesses.

Making sure our customers have safe and reliable journeys is at the heart of everything we do in Operations. We keep the roads open for business and play a key role in making sure the network we manage is fit for purpose today and for the future.

Why you should join us?

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this.

We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers. So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion in what you do, work effectively in a team and demonstrate integrity in how you do it – then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.

And finally, we reserve the right to close before the advertised closing date based on the volume of applications received. To ensure that we can consider your application, please submit your application early.