Waste Management Graduate

3 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom AECOM Full time

Company Description
**At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.**

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Our Environment business line's talented environmental professionals provide environmental solutions for private and public clients around the world. We offer impact assessment and environmental management services that meet client needs for feasibility, impact analysis, and operational compliance as well as remediation, restoration, and reuse of impacted Property

AECOM’s climate change, sustainability and resilience team is looking to recruit a graduate consultant with a particular interest in sustainable waste management and the circular economy. This is an exciting opportunity to work for one of the world’s largest multi-disciplinary consultancies and provide waste management advice for a range of clients.

**Job Description**:
**Salary**: Competitive

Location: Manchester

They will have the opportunity to gain experience in different fields, and will receive mentoring and on-the-job training as your skills develop. Examples of the types of project you may work on include:

- Developing construction and/or operational waste management plans for new urban developments.
- Advising on circular economy and waste management policy, strategy and regulation to waste producers and local or national government bodies.
- Environmental permitting and design of waste management facilities.
- Waste and materials aspects of environmental impact assessments.
- Developing and implementing sustainability and net zero strategies and policies for a range of organisations, with a focus on material resource, circularity and waste management.
- Carrying out research into waste and circular economy issues.
- Helping prepare technical reports.
- Collecting, assessing and interpreting data.
- Supporting senior colleagues in attending meetings.
- Helping build relationships with our clients.
- Assisting with preparation of proposals to win new projects.

**Skills and Experience**
- A desire to deliver technical excellence;
- Confident user of Microsoft Office software;
- Great communication skills in English, fluency in other languages advantageous;
- Strong analytical skills and problem solving abilities;
- Self-starter, who can design and deliver work under own initiative; and
- Solid numeracy skills, confidence in working with large data sets and strong Excel skills.

Diversity and inclusion is important to what we do and how we do it. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds and experiences. The important thing for us is that you can demonstrate you can effectively fulfil the needs of the role. If you feel you can meet the requirements, but other factors are making you hesitant in applying, we would still like to hear from you to see if we can work together to overcome any challenges.

**Qualifications**:
Minimum Requirements:

- Strong science or engineering based undergraduate degree in a relevant environmental / science/ waste management discipline is required - **an MSc or equivalent is desirable.**:

- Enthusiasm and commitment to sustainable waste management and the circular economy.
- At Consultant level, applicants would also be expected to:

- Be working towards Chartered status with a relevant institution (e.g. CIWM).
- Have experience in one or more specific areas of waste management and circular economy (e.g. waste permitting, circular economy/waste management plans, etc)
- Have experience of writing technical deliverables / reports.

Additional Information

Our Graduate Development Programme (ADVANCE), along with our huge scope of projects across the globe, will challenge and inspire you to make a real difference to the world we live in. Our programmes form a core part of our business strategy globally, designed to develop the best talent across numerous disciplines to lead our business into the future. We have over 1,000 graduates on our programmes across the UK & Europe, from over 30 different disciplines, and each one of them makes a tangible difference to the environment we all live and work in.

We will provide you with all the tools and support you need to achieve your professional development ambitions, including chartership with the relevant international professional institution - where we have graduates working towards over 30 professional institutions in the UK&I. We demand the highest standards and expect our graduates to pass their professional review first time. You will be assigned a mentor to support and guide your d



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