Graduate Programme - Environmental Services

Job Description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects, and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives, experiencing a world of opportunity and a chance to shape a career as unique as you.

Our environmental consultancy services span numerous disciplines and sectors, delivering practical strategies for studying, protecting, enhancing, and restoring the natural environment.

• Landscape Architecture – London, Exeter, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh
• Cultural/Historic Heritage – London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow

As a Graduate in our Environmental Services teams, you will work on innovative projects exploring the numerous aspects of the services we provide, including Nature Advisory, Marine & Aquatics, Air Quality, Acoustics, or Landscape Architecture. You will be working on projects across a broad range of clients, sectors, and scales.

• Landscape Architecture – active travel plans, HS2 Rail, Renewable Energy projects, public realm designs, pedestrianisation schemes for local authorities.
• Cultural Heritage – Sizewell (fieldwork surveys and reports), East‑West Rail (constraints reports), Road schemes in Northern Ireland.

As a graduate you will support client projects alongside senior staff within a large team of landscape architects and urban designers. You will contribute to landscape design and assessment across various sectors, making decisions suited to your experience and receiving guidance from the team. WSP offers strong opportunities to develop skills in sustainable design, reporting, graphics, and scientific thinking.

• Provision of landscape consultancy services and technical input.
• Written and graphic input to strategic studies, guidance documents, LVIA and TVIA technical reports.
• Design development from feasibility to detailed design, hard and soft landscape detailing and specification, tender and construction support, post‑construction management.
• Use of software such as AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Suite.

The WSP UK Cultural Heritage and Archaeology team is the largest heritage consultancy in the country, covering all aspects of the historic environment throughout the full lifecycle of projects.

• Analysis of historic maps.
• Site visits to scheduled monuments.
• Preparation of heritage baselines for reports.
• Researching GIS mapping.
• Support for archaeological desk‑based assessments and Heritage statements.

The two‑year Graduate Development Programme supports personal and professional development through core business and professional skills training, career workshops, networking, mentoring for professional registration, and on‑the‑job experience. Many employees have started as graduates and advanced within the company. We encourage achieving chartered status, supporting enrolment in professional training agreements.

• Graduated with at least a 2:2 in a master’s or bachelor’s degree for the relevant role.
• Complete the application form in full, answering all specific questions.
• Complete the online skill enabler assessment.
• Availability to start work in April or September 2026.
• Enthusiasm for creativity, numerical skills, and problem solving.
• Passion for data analysis using Excel and GIS.
• Willingness to travel to sites and client offices not accessible by public transport.

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Should you have the right qualifications, apply and we can evaluate how your experience aligns with our Graduate Programme and other opportunities.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Submit early to ensure full consideration.

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