Launch your career and find your professional home at Ramboll. Be part of a welcoming and engaging environment, where you can develop and explore your professional interests and passions, and curiosity in ways that make the most of all the opportunities ahead of you.
At Ramboll, we offer a unique work environment. Our culture is built on openness, understanding, and respect, allowing you to shape your role to match your working style, aspirations, and personal life. Our Nordic heritage drives our commitment to improving conditions for people and nature through our projects. As a foundation-owned multinational company, the profit we make is reinvested into the company. This ensures the continued development of employees or is used to fund research, charity, and humanitarian projects. Our commitment to be 'The Partner for Sustainable Change' ensures your work makes a meaningful impact on people, communities, and the environment.
Our early careers programme
We have designed a training program that will boost your personal, commercial and technical development to kick-start your career with Ramboll. You will also be paired with a mentor and have access to a clear framework to work towards your professional development.
The Early Careers Challenge is one of the highlights of the graduate training. This is a fun and exciting event where you get to travel around the UK and work on a project that will provide you with an insight into the concept of design. You also get the opportunity to collaborate and network with amazing people and peers.
About the opportunity
The role will involve the opportunity to undertake environmental management and assessment with opportunities to work on both UK national project environmental impact assessments, and International environmental and social impact assessments. The team forms part of Ramboll’s global Impact Assessment Spearhead, a team of over 300 Impact Assessment specialists working across a broad range of sectors.
Key tasks and responsibilities will be
- All stages of environmental impact assessment including screening, scoping and preparing Environmental Statements.
- Environmental management to coordinate environmental disciplines and deliver baseline surveys – opportunities to support surveys in disciplines such as ecology, peat, noise and air quality.
- Site inspections and walkover surveys.
- Liaising with design and client teams to programme work and manage the delivery of surveys and of the Environmental Statement.
- Drafting environmental impact assessment chapters, including Introductory chapters, cumulative assessment chapters and Non-Technical Summaries.
- Opportunities to develop skills contributing to individual disciplines, and preparation of environmental chapters.
- Support business development and the preparation of proposals.
Your skills and experience
For this role, we believe your starting point is:
- A Bachelors or Masters level degree in one or more of the following subjects: Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Assessment and Management, Environmental Science, Environmental Management or Geography;
- Have experience with IT packages including Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook;
- Be numerically competent;
- Possess excellent English communication skills, both oral and written;
- Have excellent report writing skills
We don’t expect you to know everything, but that you show curiosity, take responsibility, and want to deliver high-quality work. Ramboll strives to deliver excellent cross-functional solutions in a professional and well-coordinated manner to our clients. Therefore, we believe you have good communication and collaboration skills.
Benefits you will enjoy
- Hybrid & Flexible Working
- 27 days holiday per year + 8 days bank holiday
- Professional subscription + support on becoming chartered
- Matched pension scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- A great list of flexible benefits you can choose from including discounted taste card subscription, cycle to work scheme, gym flex and many more!
Selection process
We aim to have applications shortlisted by the beginning of March and we will invite successful candidates to an assessment centre at the beginning of April in our Edinburgh office.
Work at the heart of sustainable change with Ramboll in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company. As a foundation-owned people company, founded in Denmark, we believe that the purpose of sustainable change is to create a thriving world for both nature and people. So, that’s where we start – and how we work. Our history is rooted in a clear vision of how a responsible company should act and being open and curious is a cornerstone of our culture. Ramboll in the United Kingdom and Ireland has a proven track record of sustainable and responsible business and is a top ten engineering and environmental and sustainability consultancy in the UK, with more than 1,500 employees across 16 offices. Ramboll experts deliver innovative solutions across Buildings, Transport, Environment & Health, and Energy. In 2024, Ramboll was included in the Sunday Times’ list of Best Places to Work.
How to apply
Apply online. Attach your CV and Cover Letter as PDFs. In a separate PDF document, please address the following questions:
- What are the main environmental challenges where you live, why they are important to you, and how you would help solve them? (max. 500 words)
- What are your top 3 locations if you were offered a role with Ramboll? We are aiming to recruit into our Edinburgh or Birmingham offices but it would be helpful to know other locations that you could consider in addition to this.
Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered.
Based on the volume of applications received we reserve the right to close applications early.
We look forward to receiving your application.