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 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.

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

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.

• Landscape Architecture:
  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.

Our two-year Graduate Development programme is designed to support personal and professional development and growth through an engaging blended learning experience. The programmes include core business and professional skills training, career development workshops and resources, valuable networking opportunities, mentoring for professional registration and a breadth of on-the-job experience. To find out more, please visit:
Who we are - ECP. Our teams are dedicated to supporting your career growth from the very beginning. Many employees have started as graduates and successfully advanced within the company. We encourage you to achieve chartered status with professional bodies, ensuring your development is a priority. You will be fully supported through enrolment in a professional institution’s training agreement, guiding you towards chartered or incorporated status.

• You’ll have graduated with at least a 2:2 in a master’s or bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject for the role you are applying for.
• Candidates must complete the application form in full answering all specific questions. This requirement applies to all candidates, inclusive of their background. Successful completion of this stage is mandatory. Candidates who pass this initial stage, will then be required to complete an online skill enabler assessment. Both the application form and the skill enabler assessment are essential parts of the early career’s recruitment process.
• You’ll be looking to start work in either April or September 2026.
• You’ll have an…