Environmental Sustainability Advisor Graduate

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Environmental Sustainability Advisor Graduate to join Amey’s HSEQ Team.

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Starting Salary: £28,500 (Subject to 2025 review)

Location: National

Working hours per week:  37.5  Monday - Friday

Start date: April 2025

Shape tomorrow’s world with Amey

With over 100 years of experience in managing critical infrastructure, we are committed to helping our clients operate efficient, safe and sustainable assets and infrastructure that people can be proud of. And we understand just how challenging it is, especially in the face of cost constraints and climate change.

Amey Transport Infrastructure stands as a beacon of engineering excellence in the UK, committed to inspiring change and enhancing the nation’s critical infrastructure. Join us to create a lasting, sustainable impact on society and future generations.

Why Choose Amey?

• Real Responsibilities: Dive into challenging projects from day one, working alongside experienced engineers on cutting-edge infrastructure designs.
• Support Network: You’ll be partnered with an internal mentor, a college mentor, and join a vibrant apprenticeship community.
• Career Development: Tailored career paths that grow with you, supported by mentors and a strong peer network.
• Generous Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, pension scheme, minimum 24 days holiday plus bank holidays, and flexible benefits like cycle-to-work and gym membership.
• Social Impact: Two Social Impact Days annually for volunteering and opportunities to support community initiatives.
• Wellbeing Focus: Access to mental health support, a 24/7 helpline, and wellbeing resources because your health matters.
• Modern Perks: Discounts on shopping, healthcare benefits, and more through our online voucher portal.

The Team and Role

You will play a key role in transforming the carbon and climate change ambitions of key clients into real actions, whilst we help you to develop essential skills for building future-proof organisations in line with the IEMA Sustainability Skills Map.  As an Environmental Sustainability Advisor Graduate, your overall objective of this role is to ensure the effective delivery and maintenance of infrastructure services within HSEQ.

You will work alongside the team to:

• Embody a collaborative approach, working with environment, carbon and sustainability professionals across Amey and others (including Clients, our key partners, and Supply Chain members) to deliver: Zero Carbon Solutions, Nature Based Solutions and Compliant, Resilient & Industry Best Practice Solutions across our value chain, helping reduce the environmental impact of our construction, operation, and maintenance activities.
• Providing environmental advice and support to operational team members, helping to transfer knowledge and improve individual understanding.
• Working with other Health, Safety, Environment and Quality professionals to provide assurance to operate within the highways domain.
• Reviewing and briefing changes in law and standards.
• Ensuring environmental and social issues are identified and factored into the decision-making processes, developing, reviewing, and revising appropriate policies and procedures.
• working with operational team members to identify environmental risks and opportunities, improving understanding of how our activities interact with the environment and determine effective operational control measures to mitigate significant impacts, including in the event of an emergency, as well as in a changing climate.
• Supporting development of effective environmental and carbon management plans.
• Undertaking environmental permission applications (authorised waste, consents to discharge/abstract).
• Determining competence and awareness requirements, providing briefings and training as necessary.
• Monitoring compliance, undertaking inspections and audits.
• Undertaking environmental performance monitoring, analysis, and evaluation, writing reports and making recommendations to our business leaders to drive continual improvement.
• Undertaking investigations into events with the potential for or that have caused pollution or damage to environmental assets.
• Maintaining ISO 14001 certification of our integrated management systems.
• Active participation in industry associations, groups, and initiatives.
• Championing best practice and innovation to deliver operational excellence.

Where Could This lead?

Our Graduate Programme is designed to be rewarding, nurturing your professional development and personal growth. As Sean Griffin, a current Graduate, shares: “Over the past year, it has been both a challenging and rewarding journey. I look forward to my future with Amey as my skills and knowledge develop.”

Successfully completing the programme will propel you to an Environmentalist Sustainability role  within Amey Transport infrastructure, paving the way for a career in Environmentalist Sustainability.

What We Need From You

As a Graduate, other than your relevant degree, we don’t expect you to bring prior experience with you when you join us; we will give you all the skills and opportunities. We therefore keep our list of essential requirements to a minimum, but there are a few things needed to qualify for our programme:

• Graduate of a University Environmental Programme e.g. bachelor’s degree or master’s in relevant field such as Ecology, Environment, sustainability or engineering.
• A Full UK driving License

Application Guidance

Amey is committed to Inclusion and Diversity.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview, if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Please contact our recruitment team at peopleservices@amey.co.uk to discuss any access needs, reasonable adjustments or additional application support that may be required at any point during the recruitment process.

Apply today – We are excited to hear from you!  We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the closing date should we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.