Environmental Graduate Scheme - Infrastructure

Degree Requirements: A minimum of a 2:1 Bachelor’s degree in Geography, Geology, Environmental Science or Climate Science or an engineering degree with a Master’s in an environmental/sustainability related discipline.

Locations: Belfast, Bristol, Manchester
(Please note locations may close due to volume of applications - if you're preferred location isn't available when you go to apply please select an alternative.)

Our Sustainability and Carbon team advises clients on how they can decarbonise their activities and deliver their projects in sustainable ways. Our exciting portfolio of projects and clients continues to expand, and we’re looking to recruit graduates with a passion for sustainability and an eagerness to learn and ultimately influence others. We work on projects both in the UK and internationally across all sectors; energy, water, rail, highways, airports and local and central government.

Examples of the work we do includes:

• Decarbonisation / Net Zero Roadmaps – helping clients calculate their organisational carbon emissions and find solutions to reduce them going forwards.
• Project Sustainability – driving sustainability into projects to increase sustainability performance and lower carbon emissions.
• Organisational Sustainability – helping clients become more sustainable, assisting them with their organisational sustainability strategies and compliance reporting.
• Whole Life Carbon – calculating the whole life carbon emissions on our design projects and managing the carbon process on projects to reduce carbon emissions as far as possible.

Degree Requirements: Minimum of a 2.2 Master’s degree in Civil Engineering or Environmental Engineering

Locations: Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Derby, Edinburgh, Epsom (Surrey), Glasgow, Manchester, Peterborough
(Please note locations may close due to volume of applications - if you're preferred location isn't available when you go to apply please select an alternative.)  

Our multi-disciplinary team is one of the largest in the UK, providing Water and Wastewater Infrastructure services alongside Drainage Design and Surface Water Management. We work across a wide variety of clients, both within the UK and internationally, including water companies, local authorities, highways /rail authorities, and developers.

You’ll work alongside industry-leading experts on diverse projects that allow you to improve the environment around us, and find innovative, low-carbon solutions to maintain and enhance critical water-based infrastructure, both within the UK and around the world. Examples of some of our typical projects you may get involved in are:

• Sustainable Drainage (SuDS) Design / Surface Water Management Planning to manage surface water runoff sustainably within our communities.
• Drainage Design for large-scale, Development/Transportation and Energy Projects, such as HS2 & Sizewell C.
• Design of Potable Water and Wastewater infrastructure.
• Working directly with Water Companies to develop long-term strategies (DWMPs) to help sustainably manage water across the next 25years.
• Options assessment, and design to help reduce spill events from Combined Sewer Overflows.

Our Graduate Engineers will be supported in working towards Chartership with an appropriate professional institution, and will typically be involved in the following:

• Producing Design Calculations (both simple “hand-calculations” & Hydraulic Models using QGIS / Microdrainage / Causeway Flow / Infodrainage / Infoworks ICM).
• Drawing and 3D BIM Modelling (using AutoCAD / Civils 3D / Microstation) to aid multi-disciplinary coordination and construction.
• Report writing (using Microsoft Office applications) to inform clients / key stakeholders of our proposed technical solutions.
• Presentation of solutions as part of internal and client meetings.  
• Working in multi-disciplinary teams across AtkinsRéalis, clients and regulators, to understand Engineering problems, and identify optimal solutions. 

Locations: Birmingham, London
(Please note locations may close due to volume of applications - if you're preferred location isn't available when you go to apply please select an alternative.)

Degree Requirements: Minimum of a 2.1 Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Anthropology, Social Science, Human Geography, HR and Human Behaviour, Marketing and Communications, Politics, Social Impact 

Here at AtkinsRéalis our work helps clients deliver their projects in sustainable ways, leading to better social, economic and environmental outcomes for clients, projects and communities. Our growing Social Value and Stakeholder Engagement team supports engagement with clients and the communities we work within. As a result, our team members gain experience of some of the world’s largest and most challenging projects, working with a diverse range of clients and communities in different countries, and across many sectors including water, oil and gas, power, renewables, infrastructure and the built environment. 

AtkinsRéalis are looking to appoint a Social Value & Stakeholder Graduate to support the team within our UK & Europe business. We are flexible about the qualification you have gained as it is more important to us that your skills and motivation comes from wanting to create better communities for everyone, in environments that we all want to live in and be a part of. 

Responsibilities and Accountabilities 

• Fully committed to upholding the principles and values of social value and stakeholder engagement.
• Understanding the reasons behind social challenges (local, regional and national) and empathising with individuals, businesses and community groups should be of the utmost importance.
• Experience planning, organising and coordinating events linked to social, economic and environmental measures and synergising with AtkinsRéalis corporate value. 
• Managing stakeholder databases in accordance with GDPR guidelines. This will include ensuring that all processes for collecting and analysing information and data are appropriate. 
• Conduct desk research on community groups and stakeholders based in the local geographical areas of the infrastructure projects we are assisting in building.
• Support the management team in conducting in-person thorough and informative stakeholder interviews. Providing professional and effective assistance, ensuring that the interviews are carried out smoothly and efficiently.
• Evaluating survey responses, ensuring that we are providing relevant and responsive services. 
• Assist the social value team in setting up and conducting local needs assessments for communities through desk-based research and a customised digital research tool.
• Awareness of the National TOMS or other social value calculators and ability to input, run and produce social impact reports. 

Core Activities 

 
• Delivering social value activities including workshop facilitation and delivery to different audiences for example school students/ job seekers/ community groups.
• Builds and maintains good relationship with collaborating with a range of stakeholders.
• Demonstrates a natural communicator helping to achieve outcomes with a variety of people across multiple disciplines or settings and at all levels of seniority.
• Has a flair for writing case studies and bid/tender responses. Understanding the benefits of great storytelling and different ways of presenting data and outcomes.
• Co-ordinate partnership working activities and internal / external working groups that helps to influence individual’s decisions.
• Relevant information / data are managed efficiently and accurately.
• Practical, effective solutions are developed and delivered in accordance with legislative requirements and good practice guidelines and address any relevant issues.