Environmental Impact Assessment Graduate - Basingstoke - immediate start

Company Description

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Job Description

Our Impact Assessment Practice Area (IAPA) team are currently recruiting a graduate within our Basingstoke office for an immediate start.

About our Team

IAPA is part of the Environment & Sustainability (E&S) business, which has a workforce of some 730 staff across the UK and Republic of Ireland. E&S provides environment and sustainability solutions for public and private sector clients and is at the forefront of efforts to tackle the climate and biodiversity emergencies. It comprises the following practice areas: Acoustics, Air Quality, Ecology, Geospatial & Data Services, Heritage, Landscape, Water Environment, Impact Assessment, Planning, Climate Change, Sustainability & Resilience, Stakeholder Engagement, and ESIA & ESDD (international environment and sustainability work).

Projects

AECOM are at the forefront of delivering Environmental Impact Assessments for the nationally significant infrastructure projects that are providing for our future. Key projects include sustainable energy generation and transmission and water distribution.

Here's what you'll do

We need people with inquiring minds who can ask the questions to understand and then shape projects to achieve environmentally beneficial outcomes. The ability to work with people with different perspectives is essential to understand what Clients really need, what the design means and how it matters to stakeholders. So, communication - verbal and written - to interact with others and seek understanding, is important, but we accept that it is a skill that develops over time. We like people with an appetite to learn and develop - taking personal responsibility, but understanding how to confirm that we are getting to a good outcome.

Enjoy the Perks

At AECOM, you'll enjoy a range of core and personalized benefits designed to support your future and well-being, customized to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work-life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

Qualifications

• A good understanding of the potential for digital solutions to assist in tackling environment and sustainability challenges and be able to help us in delivering our digital transformation agenda
• Willingness and ability to travel is essential. A full driving licence or access to reliable transport would be beneficial as the role will involve travel for site surveys and possible transportation of site equipment
• Ability to work flexibly under pressure, responding to changing project and programme demands
• Good communications skills - verbal and written (fluent in English) - with the confidence to engage with a variety of people (clients, colleagues, stakeholders and sub-contractors alike) and the aptitude to rationally explain, explore and discuss technical issues and capture feedback
• Ability to work as a team
• Time Management - Work within schedules to coordinate the completion of tasks through to final project completion
• Willingness and ability to learn
• Strong research and report writing skills (including web-based research) to support team on technical issues influencing project development
• Ability to summarise technical information effectively and demonstrate diligent research techniques
• Strong skills in Microsoft Office specifically Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Strong numerate skills
• Self-starter and enthusiastic, develops and delivers work under own initiative.
• Solid attention to detail and thorough approach to work
• Strong organisational skills
• Commercial awareness for business development, marketing, and proposal preparation.

Additional Information

Applicants are encouraged to apply as early as possible since CVs will be reviewed, and candidates selected for an advanced offer start. Please include a covering letter with your application and provide all predicted and/or obtained academic grades. You must have permanent right to work in the UK as we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at . At AECOM, we value everyone's unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you! We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About AECOM

AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle - from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at