Job title
Graduate Consultant – Environment and Infrastructure
Job Location
Brighton
Salary
£30,000 and £1,500 sign on bonus
Current Team Information
Savills is the UK’s leading real estate service provider. We work with property of all types, ranging from the critical national infrastructure through to world’s most iconic rural estates through, the country’s leading urban developments and property portfolios. Our clients come from both the public and private sectors, and we work with organisations of all sizes.
Savills Environment and Infrastructure is a department in the Planning Division that is focused on managing environmental impacts and sustainability for major development projects, providing a range of specialist consultancy services. We have a strong focus on the UK’s infrastructure – such as energy and carbon capture projects to deliver net zero, among many others – but work on projects of all types and scales. Our goal is to shape projects, ensure environmental protection and betterment, and support our clients to get vital infrastructure approved and built. We do this through a high standard of environmental and social expertise, a thorough understanding of consents and regulation, and an appetite to rapidly understand the details of our clients’ projects and businesses.
We work closely with Savills Earth, which brings together over 100 professionals from across our business and includes experts from Engineering & Design Consultancy, Property Management, Energy Consultancy, Energy Procurement, Environmental Economics and Research.
Our network of offices covers all regions of the UK, including rapid growth in our most recent addition in Brighton as well as our team’s presence in London, Leeds and Manchester. In all of our key regional offices, the Planning and Environmental teams operate alongside other property advisory services allowing cross-disciplinary work on a wide variety of projects. As part of our environmental capability, we are seeking to further expand our environmental and consents management, air quality, climate change, acoustics and health/social impact teams under the respective team leaders, including a yearly intake of graduates.
About This Role
As a graduate within the Environment and Infrastructure team, you will gain experience across a wide variety of different service lines and skills. Daily tasks for our graduates can vary from: helping to manage complex multi-disciplinary environmental assessments and produce high-quality reporting; being out on-site undertaking environmental baseline air quality or acoustics surveys; collecting and interpreting baseline data to understand local health and socio-economic circumstance; undertaking modelling assessments for carbon emissions, climate risks, air quality or public health; working on sustainability and climate strategy; advising clients in virtual and face-to-face meetings; or preparing proposals and costing to bid on future work. The breadth of experience that Savills graduates obtain is second to none and the pathway will help to provide holistic knowledge across the Savills business whilst focusing on developing your skills in environmental impact assessment, air quality, acoustics, climate and human health.
Our key growth areas and responsibilities that we anticipate that the successful candidate will be involved in include:
- EIA co-ordination and management of consent applications
- Lifecycle carbon, circular economy and climate risk assessment and strategy
- Air quality assessment and management
- Health, equality and social value assessment and strategy
- Acoustic assessment and management
- Water neutrality assessment and advice
- Planning, consents and regulation for major development
The above list is not exhaustive and a key opportunity within this recruitment will be to help explore and shape new opportunities going forwards. We anticipate this role to be of most relevance and interest to recent graduates or early career professionals with 1-5 years’ experience, though this is not necessarily prescriptive.
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Key Responsibilities
As a graduate consultant within the team, the key responsibilities would be as follows:
- Technical expertise: To develop a high standard of knowledge, working towards becoming a recognised expert in the field, in one or more areas of the environment, health and social wellbeing.
- Project delivery: To deliver a high quality of work and effectively balance competing priorities. You will be supported in doing so by senior members of the team.
- Project management: To help project manage the projects that you are involved in, ensuring that they remain on time and on budget.
- Business development: To write proposals, cost work, and support wider business development opportunities.
- Client engagement: To join and input into client meetings as and when required. You will also be encouraged to develop your own network by attending relevant external events and webinars.
How You’ll Make An Impact
As a graduate in the Environment and Infrastructure team, we think that you will create an impact as follows:
- You will have the opportunity to be part of a fast growing team that has an interesting and well-regarded pipeline of work on high profile, nationally significant projects.
- You will have a client-facing role helping to shape sustainable developments of all types, ensuring that they provide environmental protection and betterment.
- You will be involved in a wide variety of work that presents a significant opportunity for personal development and career growth.
- You will collaborate with leading professionals within the field as well as other disciplines across the department.
- You will have the opportunity to build on experience and undertake training designed to ensure that we stay ahead of the competition.
Training
Our training and development programme is highly regarded as one of the best in the property industry and is geared towards enabling our graduates to reach their full potential. As a graduate, you'll also have regular opportunities to attend technical, business skills and personal development activities – including conferences, courses, lectures, networking, mock assessments, revision sessions and social events – which complement both your practical experience and meet the requirements of professional membership qualifications such as for IEMA or IAQM. You will be supported in working towards recognised Practitioner status and ultimately Chartered Environmentalist or equivalent qualification.
This will include training in all aspects of environmental assessment and management, including measurements, monitoring and modelling, within which will be data processing and manipulation including statistical analysis. One of the key aspects of a consultancy role is understanding a client’s needs and developing those into an assessment process taking into account appropriate guidance and standards.
You will have a mentor who will support and guide you throughout the two year training programme. They will discuss your training and experience needs at regular progress reviews, ensuring you receive the support you require. Your mentor will keep the team leader informed of progress.
Career development
You will be exposed to writing proposals for projects (including costings), writing reports and presenting your recommendations to guide clients, which result from your critical output input and analysis in the environmental, health and social assessment process. You will be guided to develop both a high standard of technical expertise and the ability to manage projects, together with how to offer expert advice that clients can act upon.
You will gain an in-depth understanding of major development projects and programmes for high-profile companies, who are delivering the UK’s net zero infrastructure, new towns, water resources and logistics among other areas.
At the end of the two-year period, you will be a competent and confident consultant able to manage smaller projects with minimal support. You will be playing a key role in teams on larger projects, responsible for specific deliverables and visible in a client-facing position. From this point you will continue to receive training and career development opportunities to allow progression to more senior roles. Together, we will also ensure that your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is current, that all staff are fully up-to-date with changes to legislation and business needs, and that you work towards a Chartered or equivalent status.
Benefits
- Permanent contract for all graduates, as opposed to a 2 year training contract
- Interest free season ticket loan
- Pension Scheme – Royal London
- Company mobile phone and laptop
- Training costs covered
- 25 days annual leave
- Employee discounts – save money using our MyRewards on thousands of discounts and offers
- Pitch your idea to our Board via the Savills Dragons Den (Innovation and growth initiative)
- Sports and charitable activities (Hockey, Netball, Skiing, Rugby, Football, Cricket, Badminton & Squash)
- Employee Assistance Programme – a 24 hour service available to all staff and completely confidential
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- ShareSave – Save As You Earn share option scheme
Required
Skills, Knowledge and Experience
High attention to detail, well organised and a proactive approach;
Strong verbal, numerical and report writing skills;
A team player with leadership potential;
Strategic approach to problem solving;
Highly motivated; and
Computer and spreadsheet literate.
Desirable
A high-quality Bachelor or Masters degree in Environmental Science, Sustainable Urban Design or a closely related field.
Technical proficiency in one or more of the following applications:
- Excel (advanced modelling capabilities)
- GIS software such as ArcGIS or QGIS
- Programming languages such as Python or RStudio
- Data science tools such as Stata, Alteryx or Talend
Ahead of anything else, we look for individualism and character in our graduate intake – so it's very important at every stage of the selection process that you take the opportunity to show us what you're really like. Be honest and above all, be yourself!
Assessment for this role
Online application - CLICK HERE TO APPLY - Applications close on 3rd November 2024
Online Assessment - SHL (will be sent on application completion and will need to be completed by 8am on 4th November 2024)
Assessment Centre - 29th November 2024 in the London Head Office (33 Margaret Street, London, W1G 0JD)
Potential virtual interview with team following the Assessment Centre
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