Graduate Consultant - Permitting, Management Systems & Compliance (2025 Intake)

To be considered for this role, please ensure you read the job description carefully and submit all relevant documents as PDFs, including the application questions at the bottom of the advert.

Launch your career and find your professional home at Ramboll. Be part of a welcoming and engaging environment, where you can develop and explore your professional interests and passions, and curiosity in ways that make the most of all the opportunities ahead of you.

At Ramboll, we offer a unique work environment built on openness, understanding, and respect. Our Nordic heritage drives our commitment to improving conditions for people and nature through our projects. As a foundation-owned multinational company, profits are reinvested into the company to support employee development, 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.

Our Early Careers Programme – EarlyCareers@Ramboll

We have designed a training program to boost your personal, commercial and technical development to kick-start your career with Ramboll. You will be paired with a mentor and have access to a clear framework to work towards your professional development.

The Early Careers Challenge is a highlight of the graduate training. This is a fun and exciting event where you travel around the UK and work on a project that provides insight into design and offers opportunities to collaborate and network with peers.

About the Opportunity

The role provides the opportunity to become fluent in a wide range of environmental regulatory requirements as they apply to our clients. You will develop the skills to assess client operations for compliance, identify practical recommendations to improve performance or achieve compliance, and undertake desk-top analysis and confirmatory site visits to support our environmental compliance and permitting teams. You will support detailed technical applications for environmental permits, typically for industrial or commercial properties (e.g., data centres), with growing opportunities in the green transition space (hydrogen, EV, batteries, carbon capture). The role combines desk-based and client site-based activities, offering exposure to facilities and a strong understanding of environmental compliance and permitting from an operational perspective. Additional opportunities may include supporting the development of client environmental and sustainability management systems, and circular economy/resource management initiatives.

While the focus is Environmental Permitting, Management Systems and Compliance, graduates in this role are also expected to spend time in the Graduate ESG/EHS Due Diligence & Strategy Consultant role during their first two years to gain breadth and experience. See more information about this role here.

For this role, we believe your starting point is:

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Sustainability, Geography, Environmental Science, Environmental Law/Policy or Chemical Engineering
• Experience with IT packages including Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook
• Numerical competence
• Excellent English communication skills, both oral and written
• Excellent report writing skills

We don’t expect you to know everything, but you should show curiosity, take responsibility, and want to deliver high-quality work. Ramboll strives to deliver excellent cross-functional solutions in a professional and well-coordinated manner to our clients. Therefore, you should have good communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits you will enjoy:

• Hybrid & Flexible Working
• 27 days holiday per year + 8 days bank holiday
• Professional subscription + support on becoming chartered
• Private Medical Insurance
• A great list of flexible benefits you can choose from including discounted Tastecard, cycle to work, gym flex and more

Selection Process:

We aim to shortlist applications by early March and will invite successful candidates to an assessment centre at the beginning of April in our Birmingham office. Applications should include all required documents as described above.

Work at the heart of sustainable change with Ramboll in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company. As a foundation-owned people company, founded in Denmark, Ramboll’s purpose is to create a thriving world for nature and people. Our culture values openness and curiosity. Ramboll in the United Kingdom and Ireland has a proven track record of sustainable and responsible business and is a top engineering and sustainability consultancy with more than 1,500 employees across 16 offices. We deliver solutions across Buildings, Transport, Environment & Health, and Energy. In 2024, Ramboll was listed in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work.

How to apply

Apply online. Attach your CV and Cover Letter. In a separate document, address the following questions:

• 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)
• What are your top 3 locations if you were offered a role with Ramboll? We are aiming to recruit into our Leeds/Cardiff/Bristol/London/Manchester/Birmingham offices, but other locations may also be considered.

Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered.

Based on the volume of applications, we reserve the right to close applications early.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Deadline for applications: 19 February 2025

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are central to Ramboll. We are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive work environment and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we aim to ensure accessibility in the application process. If you require adjustments, please contact job.advert.accessibility@ramboll.com.

Ramboll in the United Kingdom and Ireland values diversity and inclusion and is dedicated to work-life balance and supporting employees’ well-being.