Graduate Consultant - Carbon Advisory Team - Intake

Job Description

Join Wood! It's a future for all of us. We aspire to shape a better tomorrow by unlocking solutions that address the biggest challenges facing our clients and our society.

Wood is recruiting several Graduate Consultants to join our Carbon Advisory Team in our Reading office. As a Wood Graduate you will join a culture of innovation, pushing the boundaries of what is possible, to seek the best solutions for our clients.

Wood is deeply committed to the development of their people and recognises the importance of growing a talented team of professionals with expertise in process engineering and sustainable development to ensure the future success of the organisation and the Energy and Materials sectors we support. We provide:

• Technical challenge - develop your core and specialised skills to a world‑leading standard.
• Excellence - Work at a centre of technical excellence for an international company which leads and supports projects executed across Europe, Africa and the Middle East
• Recognition/prestige - Wood is globally regarded as a leading premium engineering and design firm. Ranked Number 1 International design firm by Engineering News‑Record (2019)

• Variety in projects and studies
  , requiring highly adaptable and naturally curious/inquisitive individuals.
• Exposure to the wider sustainable development aspects of process design work
• Technical and personal development; you will have access to a wealth of technical and personal development resources and opportunities.
• If appropriate support with Accredited training scheme - including the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)
• Support throughout your career; Assigned buddy and mentor (Chartered Engineer) and departmental manager to ensure you are supported in your personal and professional development to fully achieve your potential.
• If appropriate rotations across relevant business areas to enhance your knowledge and experience in order to become a well‑rounded consultant.
• Meaningful and interesting studies and projects; delivered to leaders of industry across the different Energy and Materials market sectors.
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business.
• Competitive salary with incremental increases as you progress within the graduate program.
• Flexible benefits package; inclusive of 33 days annual leave (including public holidays), generous contributory pension scheme, private medical cover, 4x base salary life insurance; all of these and more that can be adapted to suit your own lifestyle.
• Early Careers Network (ECN); join your peers within our ECN and have the opportunity to support and share ideas with other recent graduates across our business units.
• Global connections: join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of the decarbonisation agenda, shaping the standards of our profession.

As a Graduate Carbon Advisory Consultant, you will have exposure to different parts of the business gaining vital skills. In addition, your work will be aimed at assisting clients.

• Achieve their climate change ambitions.
• Quantify Scope 1, 2 & 3 carbon emissions and advise on supply and demand side reduction and offsetting techniques and technologies.
• Undertake product lifecycle analysis to determine a verifiable product carbon intensity/footprint.
• Support decision‑making for CO₂ emission reduction from a cost‑of‑carbon‑abated perspective.
• Use multi‑factor sustainable development indices to magnify the benefits of de‑carbonisation.
• Gain understanding of current and future carbon pricing and funding opportunities.
• Verify, validate and certify emission inventories and LCAs.
• Understand synergistic environmental improvement opportunities that decarbonisation brings, aiding ESG credentials and performance enhancement and increasing positive stakeholder perception.
• Transition to net‑zero.
• Build decarbonisation roadmaps with journey times, drivers and identified milestones.
• Develop climate governance and management frameworks to meet financial institution and investor expectations.
• Evaluate transition risk and…