Graduate Environmental Planning Consultant

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.

**Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.**

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts - planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers - leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future. Join us and let’s get started.

**Job Description**:
Business: Environment and Sustainability

**Salary**: Competitive

**About You**

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Graduate to join our Environmental Planning team. We are looking for a creative and engaging individual who has an interest in planning, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), cartography and environmental and sustainability challenges. Ideally you would have experience of working in a similar field, or proven academic experience, with a strong focus on delivering to deadlines and balancing technical deliverables with creative thought and outputs.

As a Graduate Environmental Planning Consultant in our team, you would be involved in assisting with the team and growing the current capabilities relating to the creation of high quality cartographic, diagrammatic and analytic outputs. These will help to convey key messages through effective, engaging, and accessible designs which retain a level of technical detail whilst simultaneously aiding interpretation for a lay audience. Each project we work on is unique and as such, you will use your knowledge of environmental planning to inform the preparation of maps and diagrams, ensuring they are relevant to the specific scope and audience for which they are intended. You will balance the need for cartographic principles with spatial analysis techniques and technical knowledge of planning and environmental assessment. To align with the anticipated planning reforms, our team are seeking to develop our digital capabilities, and your role would include supporting the development of innovative solutions related to the use of spatial data, cartography and digital solutions. In addition to this, you will help with the preparation of reports and presentations, conduct site visits across a range of settings and contribute to client meetings, ensuring that our reputation for excellence is maintained through all elements of our work. We like to keep learning and development engaging, and so host regular workshops where we share innovative ideas, best practice and keep up to date with the latest policy, guidance and regulations.

A meticulous eye for detail with a creative and analytical lens is an absolute must for this role. We are looking for a positive and engaging individual who will be confident in asking thought provoking and tough questions and who is keen to challenge our current work processes.

Our team works with a range of predominantly public sector clients at various scales, ranging from neighbourhood groups to city region authorities and international clients. We specialise in the delivery of strategic environmental planning, with a particular focus on Sustainability Appraisals/Strategic Environmental Assessments for local plans, neighbourhood plans and sectoral plans.

In ensuring the deliverables meet our high standards your role would involve the following **key responsibilities**:
The preparation of maps, diagrams and infographics to sup