Graduate Programme - Earth & Environment - Mining

Overview

Join our dynamic Mining team who are drivers of change, guiding our clients towards sustainable mining practices. Critical minerals and mining play a vital role in the low carbon future as clean energy technologies such as wind, solar and batteries are more material intensive than current traditional fossil-fuel-based energy systems.

We are looking for graduates for our teams, who have a flexible approach and an appetite to learn in a leading Engineering and Professional Advisory services consultancy. We want you to enjoy working in a collaborative environment where you can apply your skills working for a diverse range of clients and projects.

We are recruiting for Graduates in the following services and locations:

• Mine Water – Hydrology / Water resources engineering, Hydrogeology and Geochemistry – Naas Ireland, Birmingham or London
• Mine Waste – Naas Ireland, Sheffield, Leeds, Birmingham or London.

A little bit more about your role in the team…

Working as a graduate in our Mining team will mean that you contribute to all parts of the mining life cycle, from exploration and pre-feasibility through to mine closure, supporting our clients move towards sustainable mining practices. This presents an opportunity to work on projects internationally learning from experienced colleagues at different stages of their career and with different areas of technical expertise.

Our teams have worked on some considerable projects, and you will be helping deliver projects such as:

• Water balance models and water management plans for mining organisation in the UK and Europe.
• Modelling for dam break assessments and evaluating their impacts on the environment and downstream communities for facilities in Europe.
• Conducting detailed engineering designs of hydraulic structures for mine sites.
• Operational and closure water quality modelling for mines around the globe.
• Passive mine water treatment for abandoned historic metal mines.
• Contributions to Environmental and Social Impact Assessments for projects in Greenland and West Africa.
• Numerical modelling to update and refine existing mine models and assess inflow from planned mine expansions.
• Evaluating potential options for a leading mining organisation to reach their water reduction targets across sites globally.
• Designing and detailed hydrogeological field programme for feasibility studies and monitoring for mine sites in Europe.

Mine Water

The Mine Water team is formed of surface water, waste, groundwater and geochemistry professionals. Our clients are leaders in the mining industry and rely on our expertise to improve their site water management, protecting the people and the environment that they are situated in.

Graduates joining our Hydrology and Water Resource Engineering teams will predominantly support the team in a technical capacity to assess impacts and design solutions for water and drainage management.

Day-to-day activities could include:

• Working with the team to develop hydrological models.
• Developing Water engineering solutions.
• Preparation of technical documents including descriptions of investigations, results, conclusions and recommendations under supervision.

Working as a graduate in this team will provide you with site working opportunities including domestic and international field visits

Day-to-day activities could include:

• Sampling, monitoring supervision of borehole drilling and well installation and Aquifer testing.
• Numerical modelling.
• Groundwater analysis using a range of industry software (including FEFLOW, MODFLOW, Hydro Bench, AQTSOLV).

Working as a graduate in this team will provide you with the opportunity to work on projects internationally, learning from experienced colleagues.

Day-to-day activities could include:

• Working with the team to develop water quality and geochemical models.
• Delivering mine water studies, including site samples of environmental media (soil, water, and rocks) and collection, validation, management, analysis and interpretation of geochemical laboratory and field tests and water quality data.
• Input to technical reports, to be reviewed by senior…