Graduate Programme - Environmental Services

Job Description

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 your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

Our environmental consultancy services span numerous disciplines and sectors, drawing on a broad knowledge base. This approach enables us to deliver practical strategies for studying, protecting, enhancing, and restoring the natural environment.

We are looking for Graduates for our Environmental Services 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.

Landscape Architecture – London, Exeter, Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, or Edinburgh

Cultural/Historic Heritage – London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds or Glasgow

Working as a Graduate in our Environmental Services teams will mean working on innovative projects, exploring and learning about the numerous aspects of the requirements for the services we provide, which could include Nature Advisory, including Marine & Aquatics, Air Quality, Acoustics or Landscape Architecture. You will be working on projects across a broad range of clients, sectors and scales.

Our teams work on assignments in the UK, and you will be helping deliver projects such as:

• Landscape Architecture have been involved with a wide variety of local and national projects across a range of sectors and involvement throughout all stages of the project life cycle. Projects have included active travel plans, HS2 Rail, Renewable Energy projects, public realm designs for town centres and pedestrianisation schemes for local authorities.
• Cultural Heritage - Sizewell (fieldwork surveys and preparation of reports)
• Cultural Heritage - East-West Rail (constraints reports) and Road schemes in Northern Ireland

Working as a graduate in the Landscape Architecture team, you will be supporting client projects alongside senior staff within a large team of landscape architects and urban designers. Candidates will contribute to landscape design and assessment across various sectors, making decisions suited to their experience and receiving guidance from the team. WSP offers strong opportunities for early career professionals to develop skills in sustainable design, reporting, graphics, and scientific thinking while working on both large and small projects.

• Provision of landscape consultancy services and technical input for projects as directed by senior manager.
• Activities include written and graphic input to strategic studies and guidance documents, LVIA and TVIA technical reports.
• Design development from feasibility to detailed design, hard and soft landscape detailing and specification, tender and construction period support, post construction management activities.
• You will also be using software such as AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Suite amongst others.

The WSP UK Cultural Heritage and Archaeology team is the largest heritage consultancy in the country. Working across the UK and overseas and covering all aspects of the historic environment (archaeology, built heritage, setting and design) throughout the full lifecycle of projects. We provide our clients with expert advice heritage related enquiries that address the management of change in our historic environment.

We work on high profile and large-scale infrastructure projects in the UK and abroad as part of a multi‑disciplinary team and aim to deliver high quality work while contributing to innovative approaches and challenges within the heritage sector.

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