Graduate Environmental Consultant

Job Description

Shape a sustainable tomorrow.

Do you want to join a team that asks questions and dares to see things differently?

We are AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. When you join us, you'll help create world-class sustainable solutions that connect people, data, and technology. We're transforming infrastructure and energy systems, growing partnerships with our clients, and bringing the most complex projects across the globe to life. Join us and engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Our global team of 36,000+ employees speak over 70 languages and represents 130 nationalities across six continents. Our work covers a variety of sectors, including transportation, infrastructure, environment, water, energy, defence, technology and aerospace.

On our Graduate Development programme, you take the driver's seat in your career. Grow personally and professionally, guided by inspiring managers. Say yes to opportunities that spark your interest, knowing you'll have training and the support you need to maintain a healthy work-life balance.

Reaching your full potential means being able to bring your whole self to work and feeling like you belong. Find out more about our global programme Different makes a difference.

Where Could You Work:

As a Graduate environmental engineer, you'll enjoy variety, working on large and small projects with the opportunity to explore different career pathways, including consulting and design.  You’ll be a part of our vibrant and expanding multidisciplinary team. We’re the gateway to planning, urban design and Environmental Impact Assessment within the organisation, comprising a vibrant network of people providing world-class consultancy and advisory services.

We’re committed to providing the best outcomes for our clients, always with sustainability in mind. We share our understanding of the unprecedented challenges they face – climate change, rapid urbanisation, biodiversity decline, consumerisation, economic uncertainty, security threats and technology-driven change – to create a better future. The work we do is important and influential, it shapes the way our clients think, enables them to make better informed choices and deliver their projects effectively in a world of disruption and change.

As a graduate, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to be involved in a variety of projects, ranging from energy and renewables, water, nuclear, property, rail, highways, international projects, planning and stakeholder engagement.

Your Purpose:

• Supporting with the coordination of Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) and other non-statutory environmental appraisals.
• Coordinating a multi-disciplinary team of environmental specialists inputting to environmental assessments and environmental design inputs.
• Collecting and analysing data including conducting field surveys.
• Carrying out desk-based baseline constraints studies and appraisals.
• Writing reports and sharing findings with multi-disciplinary colleagues, clients, sub-contractors and/or regulators or other stakeholders.
• Advising on the best course of action based on industry standards and assessment conclusions.
• Managing legislative issues for clients and maintaining an awareness of how legislation impacts projects.
• Working with colleagues, clients, environmental specialists and engineering teams to promote sustainable design solutions and environmental enhancement.

What You Can Bring:

• Minimum Level 8 degree in Earth Science, Environmental Assessment & Management, Environmental Geoscience, Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Geography or Sustainability.
• A passion for working in a consultancy environment.
• Championing a culture where everyone belongs.
• A desire to work collaboratively with a curious approach, challenging yourself to find new solutions.
• Enthusiasm and drive to develop your skillset and seek out development opportunities within a supportive team.
• Motivation to achieve professional accreditation (where applicable).
• Comfortably embrace agile ways of working and learning new technologies.
• Commitment to spend a minimum of three days a week in the office or on client site (project dependent). Being together in person helps us build stronger relationships, collaborate more effectively, and accelerate your learning and development.

Training And Development:

Our graduate development programme is designed to give you an insight into many areas of work, and the chance to explore where your own skills and interests lie. It features a series of training events and modules, professional development, mentoring and on-the-job experience as well as practical skills development.

From day one, you'll work on real projects that offer scale and variety, collaborating with colleagues and creating meaningful impact on the world around us. You'll work towards your professional accreditation (where applicable) - whichever path you take, your future starts here.

We're proud to have been an Engineers Ireland CPD Accredited employer since 2021. This means you'll be supported by a true learning and development organization dedicated to your future.

Our deadline for applications is Sunday, 4th January 2026.  However, as our graduate development programmes are incredibly popular we recommend that you apply early as some roles may close sooner.

About Us:

At AtkinsRéalis we put Environment, Sustainability and Health & Safety at the heart of our business strategy. We possess a significant breadth of knowledge and depth of skills and experience for the ultimate benefit of our clients. We build long-term trusted partnerships to create a world where lives are enriched through the implementation of our ideas. Together with our clients, we’re always striving to find better ways to get things done. We are a certified CPD Accredited employer with Engineers Ireland and we were named Engineers Ireland CPD Employer of the year in 2021.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop.To help embed inclusion for all, from day one, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee networks to support staff from different backgrounds. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures, and ability.

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Worker Type

Employee

Job Type

Regular

At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.