Apprentice Environmental Practitioner

Tetra Tech, Inc.; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental consultancy in the UK is seeking an ambitious individual to join its established team. The role involves applying complex environmental principles to projects, managing sustainable solutions, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Strong communication, problem-solving, and team-working skills are essential. The position offers benefits including birthday holidays and a pension scheme. Candidates will gain valuable experience and contribute to sustainable development initiatives.

Benefits

Birthday holiday

Pension scheme

Health cash plan

Responsibilities

• Apply complex environmental principles and methods to projects.
• Design, develop or manage sustainable environmental solutions.
• Balance views of conflicting drivers related to projects.
• Apply and comply with environmental policies and regulations.
• Manage the collection, analysis, and evaluation of data.
• Utilise software and digital solutions to assess environmental methods.
• Manage tasks within environmental and legal requirements.
• Deliver high-quality documents and recommendations.
• Develop productive working relationships with stakeholders.
• Communicate effectively with various stakeholders.
• Manage work independently and seek feedback for improvement.
• Develop professional competence and maintain ethical behaviours.

Skills

Communication skills

IT skills

Attention to detail

Organisation skills

Problem solving skills

Presentation skills

Administrative skills

Logical

Team working

Initiative

Job description

This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious individual to join an established and growing environment team. Working across the UK and internationally, our qualified environmental experts play a pivotal role in the welfare of project‑related environments, ensuring plans are fully researched and accurately managed.

Responsibilities

• Apply complex environmental principles and methods to projects that integrate with the built or natural environment.
• Design, develop or manage safe and sustainable environmental solutions, identify challenges these solutions pose and assess opportunities to deliver practical solutions that integrate with the built or natural environment.
• Balance views of potentially conflicting drivers related to environmental, social and financial constraints, and demonstrate critical analysis in the design, development or management of environmental projects.
• Apply and comply with policies and regulations, including those related to the environment, health and safety, legal, planning and equality and diversity, and with the organisation's formal procedures and practices.
• Determine and manage the collection, analysis, and evaluation of data used in the development or delivery of environmental solutions; draw appropriate conclusions and make practical recommendations.
• Apply, analyse and evaluate a broad range of environmental methods (utilising appropriate software and digital solutions) to inform and enable decision‑making within the development or delivery of environmental solutions. This includes assessing data suitability, validity, quality, and accuracy relative to its intended application.
• Effectively and safely manage tasks or projects within environmental, legal, contractual and statutory requirements, meeting agreed time and resource budgets and quality standards, using appropriate project‑management tools and techniques.
• Deliver high‑quality, accurate, well‑structured documents and recommendations for the work for which they are responsible, appropriate to the intended audience.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with stakeholders and colleagues, support and guide team members to enable them to achieve team objectives and their own. Seek and provide feedback, support decision‑making processes, and manage conflicts with integrity, fairness and consistency.
• Communicate effectively orally and in writing in both formal and informal contexts, and with a variety of stakeholders. Listen actively to ensure others’ views are considered appropriately.
• Manage their own work independently within the limits of ability, authority and responsibility, seeking support and specialist expertise when appropriate. Seek feedback on performance and look for ways to improve it.
• Develop their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing CPD records, and develop an extended network to support professional development, maintaining ethical behaviours and codes of conduct associated with the environmental profession.

Qualifications and Skills

• Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Presentation skills
• Administrative skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Initiative

Benefits

• Tetra Tech operates in more than 50 offices throughout Europe with a workforce of more than 5,000 technical experts who are collectively Leading with Science® to unlock sustainable development and solve complex challenges facing the UK's built and natural environment.
• Birthday holiday
• Pension scheme
• Health cash plan