Ready to kickstart your career and make a difference in the world of Environmental Consulting - Impact & Assessment ? If you are a recent graduate or will be graduating in 2025, we want YOU to join our dynamic team at GHD!
About GHD
With over 11,000 plus professionals worldwide, GHD is a leading engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting firm. We are committed to creating solutions that help transition to low-carbon energy sources, enable sustainable urbanisation, and safeguard water systems in a changing climate. Our work empowers communities, reshapes landscapes, and paves the way for a sustainable future.
At GHD, we offer more than just a career; we offer the opportunity to join a global network of passionate engineers, scientists, and environmental specialists who are committed to making a difference. From tackling complex energy challenges to ensuring water resiliency, our teams are actively involved in projects that contribute to a Net Zero future and sustainable urban living.
Join us to be part of a dynamic team where your curiosity, innovation, and commitment will drive real change. With industry-leading training, mentoring, and hands-on experience, we will support you in your journey to becoming a future leader in engineering and sustainability. Let’s solve the big problems together and leave the world better than we found it.
Graduate development at GHD
The Graduate Development Program is an integrated approach to developing future leaders and technical specialists.
During the program, you will learn about our business and our values, your team, and most importantly, yourself. You will develop your decision-making, communication, technical and leadership skills. We offer mentoring and a variety of development activities, providing on the job experience and exposure to a diverse range of projects, as well as support towards gaining chartered status within your Engineering field.
About the position
Based in our Nottingham or London office, we have a great opportunity for a graduate to join our expanding Environment team. You will provide input on delivery of projects, expanding the capability in the region and supporting the ongoing activities of a leading multi-disciplinary engineering consultancy.
GHD’s UK Environment team supports clients operating across most industrial sectors, addressing a variety of environmental issues, including:
- Development planning and consents
- Environmental impact assessment
- Environmental permitting and compliance
- Ecology and ecosystems services
- Water quality and resource management
- Air and noise quality
- Water quality and resource management
- Environmental management systems
- Contamination assessment and remediation
You would be part of the Impact Assessment and Permitting Team and would be able to work across multiple technical disciplines as workload demands, on a journey to become a well-rounded environmental consultant.
Working with Technical Directors and Service Group Manager with support from the wider team, you will be involved in, and leading, an exciting variety of work. The role is comprised of a variety of environmental professional service tasks and responsibilities and will see you involved in delivering health, safety, and environmental management services for planning and consenting, permitting and regulatory compliance, and monitoring and management services related to project approvals. The projects you will be involved in will be varied, ranging in complexity, subject areas, and sectors of industry. It could involve enabling a client to transform a manufacturing site to a wholly different use, permitting the decommissioning of a large industrial site with competing needs, or supporting the development of new technology towards a sustainable future use.
Core responsibilities
You are likely to work on a portfolio of different projects and will apply your acquired skills and knowledge in a range of environments. Your role and responsibilities will develop as your knowledge of our business increases, but initially you will be required to:
- Deliver and be accountable for technical assignments such as report writing
- Draw on your technical knowledge to solve routine problems with guidance from senior team members
- Communicate your progress and deliver reports to other team members and seniors
- Assist with the preparation of proposals for routine projects
- Help develop our business through good client relationships and ensuring client loyalty and repeat work through excellent customer service and delivery.
What you will bring to the team
- Have a degree qualification in a relevant discipline
- Be highly numerate with a focus on problem solving and data analysis
- Have strong communication skills and enjoy working in a collaborative environment
- Have excellent report writing and presentation skills
- Have a growing commercial awareness and the capacity to work with a diverse range of clients and projects
- Be an agile learner, actively learning through experimentation and experience and seeking ways to grow and to be challenged
What we offer
We offer a professional, friendly and inclusive culture based on our core values of Safety, Teamwork, Respect and Integrity.
We are committed to the success of our people which is why we want to create the best employee experience that supports each member through all the stages of their career.
- A competitive salary
- A comprehensive benefits package; medical insurance, income protection, life insurance 25 days holiday with the option to buy an additional 4 weeks.
- Enhanced parental leave
- Voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle - cycle to work, discounted gym membership, season ticket loan, discounts on retail and wellbeing classes
- Access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform
- Wellbeing resources and tools, and demonstration of our commitment to wellbeing by signing up to the Mental Health at Work Commitment
- Team led flexible working
- Opportunities to grow your skills and shape your career towards technical expertise, developing the market or leading a business or team
- International, multi-cultural team of highly motivated individuals
- An exciting referral program; bring people with you!
