Hydrogeologist Consultant

**About the Role**

We are seeking a highly skilled Graduate Hydrogeologist to join our team in Reading, UK. As a Graduate Hydrogeologist, you will be part of our 2025 Graduate Programme and work within our market-leading Environmental Services group.

**Key Responsibilities**

• Support multiple clients across environmental, geotechnical, and water disciplines, working with industry, regulators, and water companies across the UK and occasionally overseas.
• Work on a variety of projects, providing high-quality solutions to challenges faced in the water and mineral sectors.
• Assess the impacts of climate change on the water environment and on water supplies, at both extremes of droughts and flooding.
• Investigate the sustainability and impacts of water abstractions on the wider environment, such as dependent surface water and terrestrial ecosystems.
• Develop conceptual understanding of regional aquifers and how groundwater interacts with surface water, developing numerical models to enable the regulation of groundwater abstraction.
• Determine the potential risk of national infrastructure projects on the groundwater environment.
• Design new groundwater abstractions and monitoring boreholes infrastructure.

**What You'll Gain**

• Opportunity to carry out technical field work as well as office-based work, developing your ability to collect and analyze data and to conceptualize and quantitatively describe hydrological systems and processes.
• Examples of work carried out by graduates in our team include groundwater modeling, collecting field hydrometric data, processing data in GIS, water framework directive assessments, hydrogeological impact assessments, water quality modeling, and more.

**Our Offer**

• 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

**About Stantec**

Stantec is a global leader in the design and delivery of infrastructure projects. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients' vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programs, 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.