We're looking for a Environmental & Sustainability Graduate to join our Construction team based in London.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading construction and infrastructure services company on one of our structured graduate development programmes. These programmes have been designed to provide you with the experiences and tools needed for progression within your chosen career.
Location: London
Contract: Permanent, Full Time - 40hrs per week
Salary: £29,250
Start date: September 2024
What will you be responsible for?
As an Environmental & Sustainability Graduate, you will experience practical, hands-on experience in Construction. You will work on real projects, gain valuable industry insights, and develop essential skills to prepare for a successful career. This placement is ideal for you as a graduate to apply your academic knowledge in a dynamic, real-world setting.
Over the course of this 2-year graduate programme you will learn and develop your experience supporting the London business unit with its Carbon targets, working alongside our Environmental and Sustainability teams. You will engage in group learning activities and on the job development.
Your Day To Day Will Include
- Supporting the project operational teams with finding, implementing, and reporting low carbon initiatives relating to scope 1, 2 and 3.
- Building relationships with the operational teams and attending key operational meetings to help drive down carbon at key decision stages.
- Creating case studies that capture enough information for other sites to replicate and if successful be used as evidence to mandate.
- Building relationships with key subcontractors and provide training on a number of topics from client targets, progress and initiatives on trial.
How does the graduate scheme work?
When you join, you will be enrolled onto our graduate scheme. The programme will take 2 years to complete and has been designed to equip you with the skills you need to excel in your chosen profession and help you achieve professional membership or chartership.
You can find more details about our schemes here.
What are we looking for?
We do not have any grade requirements, but we do ask that you have a degree in Environmental & Sustainability related subjects.
The role of Environmental & Sustainability Graduate is great for you if:
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Ability to write reports and deliver findings from them
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to work well both independently and as part of a team.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.
Rewards And Benefits
We are proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a variety of flexible benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a high priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.
We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier
Recruitment timeline
October 2024: Initial applications
November 2024: Application reviews
January 2025 onwards: Virtual/in-person assessment centres
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