Graduate Consultant

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Wood is recruiting several Graduate Consultants to join our Carbon Advisory Team in our Reading office.

As a Wood Graduate you will join a culture of innovation, pushing the boundaries of what is possible, to seek the best solutions for our clients.  

The Role 

Wood is deeply committed to the development of their people and recognises the importance of growing a talented team of professionals with expertise in process engineering and sustainable development to ensure the future success of the organisation and the Energy and Materials sectors we support. We provide:

• Technical challenge – develop your core and specialised skills to a world-leading standard.
• Excellence - Work at a centre of technical excellence for an international company which leads and supports projects executed across Europe, Africa and the Middle East
• Recognition/prestige - Wood is globally regarded as a leading premium engineering and design firm. Ranked Number 1 International design firm by Engineering News-Record (2019)

What we offer within our Graduate Programme:  

• Variety in projects and studies, requiring highly adaptable and naturally curious/inquisitive individuals.
• Exposure to the wider sustainable development aspects of process design work
• Technical and personal development; you will have access to a wealth of technical and personal development resources and opportunities.  
• If appropriate support with Accredited training scheme – including the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)
• Support throughout your career; Assigned buddy and mentor (Chartered Engineer) and departmental manager to ensure you are supported in your personal and professional development to fully achieve your potential.
• If appropriate rotations across relevant business areas to enhance your knowledge and experience in order to become a well-rounded consultant. 
• Meaningful and interesting studies and projects; delivered to leaders of industry across the different Energy and Materials market sectors.
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; we are an organisation actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business. 
• Competitive salary with incremental increases as you progress within the graduate program. 
• Flexible benefits package; inclusive of 33 days annual leave (including public holidays), generous contributory pension scheme, private medical cover, 4x base salary life insurance; all of these and more that can be adapted to suit your own lifestyle. 
• Early Careers Network (ECN); join your peers within our ECN and have the opportunity to support and share ideas with other recent graduates across our business units.
• Global connections: join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of the decarbonisation agenda, shaping the standards of our profession. 

As a Graduate Carbon Advisory Consultant, you will have exposure to different parts of the business gaining vital skills. In addition, your work will be aimed at assisting clients.

• Achieve their climate change ambitions.
• Quantify Scope 1, 2 & 3 carbon emissions and advise on supply and demand side reduction and offsetting techniques and technologies.
• Undertake product lifecycle analysis to determine a verifiable product carbon intensity/ footprint.
• Support decision-making for CO2 emission reduction from a cost-of-carbon-abated perspective.
• Use multi-factor sustainable development indices to magnify the benefits of de-carbonisation.
• Gain understanding of current and future carbon pricing and funding opportunities.
• Verify, validate, and certify emission inventories and LCAs.
• Understand synergistic environmental improvement opportunities that decarbonisation brings, aiding ESG credentials and performance enhancement and increasing positive stakeholder perception.
• Transition to net-zero.
• Build decarbonization roadmaps with journey times, drivers and identified milestones.
• Develop climate governance and management frameworks to meet financial institution and investor expectations.
• Evaluate transition risk and opportunities and guide scenario assessment.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate climate related physical risks by building resilience into plant design.
• Adapting existing facilities and designing ambitious new projects, to produce the next generation of lower carbon fuels and chemicals.

From a Wood perspective we expect you to:

• Represent the company at external events and conferences.
• Prepare   technical study reports / presentations and associated deliverables.
• Support the preparation of technical / commercial study proposals.
• Be fully aware of the business environment, market and on-going innovation in technology and research in climate-related subjects and issues.

Application Process and deadlines 

• Upload your CV and enter your details to our recruitment system via the link on the advert.
• Closing date for all applications will be 31st January.
• We will review applications in February
• We will then be holding screening calls throughout February/March with those candidates that fit the criteria below. 
• Shortlisted candidates will receive invitations to assessment centres in March
• Assessment centres will take place in March/April depending on location and discipline. 

• University Degree in Process Engineering, Engineering Science, or a Sustainable Development-related discipline or climate related subject
• Strong Microsoft Office skills particularly Excel
• Analytical skills and can systematically break a complex task into more manageable parts and identify the critical components of a problem.
• A strong communicator with strong verbal and written communication skills
• High-quality report writing and presentation skills.
• Good organisational skills
• Keen to learn and keen to share learning with others.
• Good at working in teams and flexible in thinking and in work methods.