About the role

In our Graduate Development Programme, you take the driver's seat in your career. Grow personally and professionally, guided by inspiring managers. Just say yes to opportunities that spark your interest, knowing you'll have the flexibility to balance work, life, and study.

With our excellent training and a supportive environment, you'll thrive in great company. Reaching your full potential means being able to bring your whole self to work and being respected for the different opinions, strengths and experience you bring. We’re not all the same, and that’s our greatest strength.

Where you could work

As an Environmental graduate, you'll enjoy variety, working on large and small projects with the opportunity to explore different career pathways including consulting and design.

You can join the following business areas:

Infrastructure

Help us reimagine our places and spaces, from transport hubs to university campuses, industrial facilities, and critical flood defence schemes - we touch every aspect of social and economic environments. The type of work will include creating specialist civils drawings, detailed tasks/design and client-facing roles on some of the industry’s most complex civil engineering projects.

You'll be sharpening your skills on the latest digital technologies while pressing towards a carbon-neutral future.

What you can bring

A passion for working in a consultancy environment
Embracing equality, diversity and inclusion in everything you do
A desire to work collaboratively with a curious approach, challenging yourself to find new solutions
Enthusiasm and drive to develop your skillset and seek out development opportunities within a supportive team
Motivation to achieve professional accreditation (where applicable)
Comfortable to embrace agile ways of working and learning new technologies.

Training and development

Our graduate programme has been designed to give you an insight into a wide variety of areas of work and the chance to explore where your own skills and interests lie.

Featuring a series of training events and modules, professional development, mentoring and on-the-job experience as well as practical skills development, you’ll work on real projects from day one, that offer scale and variety, collaborating with others and creating meaningful impact on the world around us. You’ll work towards your professional accreditation where applicable; so whichever path you take, your future starts here.

Meeting your needs

As well as ensuring you’re rewarded for your efforts, we also have a variety of initiatives to support you:

A settling in payment of £2,500 when you join and a further payment of £2,500 when you achieve chartered status or reach an equivalent stage in your professional development
33 days' annual leave, including bank holidays, with the option to buy an additional 15 days or sell up to 5 days
Flexible working arrangements
Two paid annual volunteer days
Join any of our employee networks for social interaction, peer support and personal development
Opportunities to further develop yourself by applying to various company-wide development programmes
An enhanced maternity scheme and family friendly policies
Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing you with immediate and confidential help for any work, health or life matters
Life #InsideAtkinsRéalis - join hundreds of talented graduates, with opportunities from skill-building to social events, charity challenges, Young Professional Awards, social clubs, and exciting secondments.

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application, details of any current or previously held security clearance.

Visit our International Students page to find out more about visas and requirements.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop. To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.

We review applications on a rolling basis. Our programmes are incredibly popular, so apply as soon as possible as roles will close based on volume of applications.

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