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Application Deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.
Your role:
We are looking for a Graduate Water Management Consultant for our Infrastructure team, to be based in our Reading, Bristol, Taunton or Birmingham office , joining our 2025 Graduate Programme.
You will be part of a large and diverse team in which you will be supporting the delivery of water management solutions for the water environment, whilst furthering your understanding of flood risk, hydrology, hydraulics and water management.
This team supports and studies the impact of rainfall, rivers, and waterways on the environment, providing engineering and modelling solutions to clients, advising on planning for water resource needs in a future impacted by both population growth and climate change.
You will work on a variety of projects including natural flood management, development planning in flood-prone areas, river and waterway structures, river restoration, surface water drainage, wetland design, and river and coastal engineering.If you enjoy problem solving and have a passion for climate change and sustainability, then this is the role for you.
You will join a supportive and successful team with exciting career opportunities, gain great client exposure and professional development and work in an innovative and collaborative environment.
Take a look at our Coastal and Marine service line:- Coastal & Marine (stantec.com), and review the career journey of our Stantec graduates here:- Stantec | Career Stories
About you:
At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in a related Environmental or Geography discipline, you will be:-
- A collaborator: You’ll love to work effectively with lots of different people at different levels, all inputting their part towards a shared goal.
- An adapter: Able to remain calm in new situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.
- A planner: Organizing and managing your own activities, dealing effectively with multiple priorities with a structured approach.
- A striver: Exhibiting ownership, consistently delivering on tasks and objectives. You’ll be motivated and proactive in your tasks, having the desire to make a real difference.
- A multi-tasker: Thinking about more than one task at a time, while still having an eye for detail.
- A problem-solver: You’ll love to give your thoughts based on what you see, being unafraid to challenge conventional thinking.
Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office 4 days per week, to ensure that you receive sufficient time with your team and receive the appropriate level of support.
What we can offer you:
- A competitive salary
- Private medical insurance
- A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection and life assurance
- Permanent employment contract to demonstrate our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec
- Professional progression plan, supporting you to gain professional chartership
- A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups)
Please take a look at our Graduate FAQs ( Graduate Application FAQs ) if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your application!
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About Stantec
The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees, working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.
Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.
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Stantec Is An Equal Employer
Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment, supporting inclusion & diversity . We prohibit discrimination on the grounds of demographic background in any condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations, and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.
We want to ensure all our applicants have the same opportunity for success. Please inform us of any support/reasonable adjustment you may need as a result of a disability, long-term health condition, neurodiversity or other personal circumstances, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process (e.g. extra assessment time, special access request etc). Please contact Careers.UK&I@stantec.com and a member of our team will be happy to assist.
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