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Are you looking for an exciting, interesting job role which can turn into a successful career helping shape the world we live in?

If you’re ambitious, innovative, and practically-minded? We may be able to help.

Tetra Tech is a leading provider of consulting services with experts across a wide variety of disciplines from project managers, engineers, surveyors and town planners to environmental specialists, asset management professionals and more.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do! They help our clients succeed, our business prosper and the communities we work in thrive.

We need the very best people to maintain our position as a market leader. This includes those taking their first steps onto the career ladder – after all you are the future of our industry and if you’ve got ideas and ambition we want to hear from you!

If you join Tetra Tech as an apprentice /graduate not only will you get to work on exciting, ground-breaking projects from day 1, you will also be given support to grow in your chosen discipline as well as training to develop the core skills needed to succeed in the corporate world. This is all part of our early careers programme – as is the chance to connect with others also starting out in their career, access to mentoring, Chartership support & bonuses and more.

Job description

You will work with the support of senior colleagues on flagship and regionally significant schemes across our defence, transport, infrastructure, healthcare, education, commercial, industrial and residential portfolios.  You will be involved with the production of designs, specifications, technical reports and site supervision.  You will be given the opportunity to work towards professional qualification with the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) or the Chartered Institution of Water & Environmental Managers (CIWEM)

You will gain experience and understanding of flood risk management, sustainable drainage and managing the impact of climate change. You will be involved with the design of flood defence schemes, hydraulic modelling, water framework directive and flood risk assessments through to producing specifications, calculations and delivering technical reports.

You will develop skills in the use of AutoCAD, Flood Modeller Pro, TUFLOW, ArcGIS, QGIS, Civil 3D and MicroDrainage.

This is an exciting time to join the flood risk and water sector. We are responding to many challenges faced by climate change to support our clients as they develop approaches to adapt to the impacts it will have on them. We apply our Leading with Science ® approaches to support our clients in understanding their impacts and reducing these to make a better place for society and the environment. If this sounds like your passion, we want to hear from you.

Quals/Skills requirements

  • Educated to degree level (BEng or MEng) in the field of Civil Engineering or Flood Risk specialist MSc or other relevant water or environmental degree
  • Have good interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work independently, a collaborative approach and a proven ability to deliver work on time.
  • Team player displaying enthusiasm, flexibility and versatility.
  • Have a desire to build upon your existing learning and developing your professional development with Tetra Tech.

Making everybody feel welcome at Tetra Tech is important to us – because everybody is welcome! We are working hard to be a business where people can not only be themselves but can celebrate who they are and what they bring to our organisation. If you have a disability, learning difficulty, medical condition or any other individual need, we'd be happy to talk to you about making reasonable adjustments to our application and selection process that will enable you to be your best.

We are one of the only consultancies to have adopted a fully flexible working arrangement where employees have the choice of how, when and where they work caveated only by the requirement to fulfil our clients’ requirements. The focus on our people doesn’t end there though, with mental health first aiders, wellbeing & fitness challenges, diversity & inclusion interest groups and lunch and learns sessions from guest speakers as well as a comprehensive flexible benefits selection and a day off for your birthday we want all our employees to be proud to work for Tetra Tech.