Graduate Consultant - Water

Company Description

To be considered for this role, please make sure you read the job description carefully. Ensure that you submit all of the relevant documents as PDFs, including the application question at the bottom of the advert. 

At Ramboll, we offer a unique work environment. Our culture is built on openness, understanding, and respect, allowing you to shape your role to match your working style, aspirations, and personal life. Our Nordic heritage drives our commitment to improving conditions for people and nature through our projects. As a foundation-owned multinational company, the profit we make is reinvested into the company. This ensures the continued development of employees or is used to fund research, charity, and humanitarian projects. Our commitment to be 'The Partner for Sustainable Change' ensures your work makes a meaningful impact on people, communities, and the environment.

Please note – Ramboll cannot sponsor any post-study or Skilled Worker visas for our early career roles, as the Home Office’s eligibility criteria would not be met. You must have the right to live and work in the UK indefinitely without the need for sponsorship, either now or in the future.

PLEASE ENSURE YOU HAVE FULLY COMPLETED YOUR APPLICATION, INCLUDING ANSWERING THE QUESTION IN THE 'HOW TO APPLY' SECTION. ANY INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE REJECTED.

Job Description

Your key tasks and responsibilities are likely to include:

• Assisting with Environmental Impact Assessments including Flood Risk Assessments, and Water Quality Assessments;
• Input to design of features related to the water environment, such as river diversions, culverts, bridges and scour protection;
• Problem solving by helping to find practical solutions to project needs, e.g. water treatment, sustainable drainage (SuDS) design and floodplain compensation, while having an appreciation of constraints such as available space, cost and programme; 
• Co-ordination with other junior colleagues, undertaking and assisting with the day-to-day work required to deliver projects while cognisant of programme and budget; 
• Support to develop strategy/concept drainage design incorporating SuDS; 
• Assisting with environmental permit applications; responding to project briefs, preparing calculations, reports and plans/figures; 

Site visits and attending meetings; and 

A degree of liaison with clients, contractors, architects, regulators, planners and other professionals.

  This role is available in either Edinburgh, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, London, Exeter or Southampton; Please choose up to three preferences on your application.

Qualifications

Your skills and experience

We believe your starting point for this role as a minimum is a relevant BEng/BSc within Geography, Hydrology or similar topic. It is desirable that you have a MEng or MSc in an environmental discipline, but this is not essential

Additional Information

How to apply :

Apply online. Attach your CV. We would also like you to answer the below question and upload as a document.

• What are the main environmental challenges where you live, why they are important to you, and how you would help solve them? (max. 500 words)
  
  
  

PLEASE NOTE: YOUR APPLICATION WILL BE REJECTED IF THE APPLICATION QUESTION IS NOT COMPLETED.

Selection Process:

We aim to respond to your application shortly after the deadline by the latest. There are three steps to our selection process. You will advance onto the next step if you are successfully shortlisted.

• Step 1: Apply Online and complete required application questions, including competency questions.

Step 2: Shortlisting

Step 3: Assessment Centre – these are planned to take place during April 2026

We personally review every application, as our selection process is fully human-led. It’s absolutely fine to use tools to support you—for example, to check spelling and grammar or to gather background research—but we ask that your answers reflect your own original thoughts. That way, we get to know the real you, and your responses will be a true foundation for your interview.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of what we do. At Ramboll, we believe that diversity is a strength and that different experiences and perspectives are essential to creating truly sustainable societies. We are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive work environment where everyone is able to flourish and reach their potential. We also know how important it is to achieve the right balance of where, when, and how much you work. As a company, Ramboll recognises the importance of having a good work/life balance, both in terms of individual well-being and its positive impact with respect to the engagement and retention of our employees. We aim to support all employees to achieve a work/life balance which enables them to work in a supported manner while having the time to achieve personal aspects of their life outside of work. We invite applications from candidates of all backgrounds and characteristics.

As a Disability Confident Committed employer, Ramboll ensures opportunities are accessible to candidates with disabilities. Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to the application process to make it more comfortable for you. You can contact us at job.advert.accessibility@ramboll.com with such requests.

Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered. All application and screening questions must be answered fully.

Based on the volume of applications received we reserve the right to close applications early, please apply early to avoid disappointment.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Deadline for applications: 13th March 2026