Environmental Impact Assessment Graduate - Glasgow or Edinburgh - Start Summer 26

AECOM; Scotland; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering firm is looking for a graduate to join their Impact Assessment team in Scotland. The role involves coordinating multidisciplinary environmental inputs, working with clients to navigate environmental constraints, and preparing assessment reports. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, an understanding of digital solutions in sustainability, and a willingness to travel for site work. This position supports career development and offers a flexible, hybrid work environment.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Flexible hybrid working model

Technical practice networks

Volunteering days

Qualifications

• A good understanding of digital solutions for environment challenges.
• Willingness and ability to travel, full driving license preferred.
• Ability to work flexibly under pressure.
• Good verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Strong research and report writing skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate environmental inputs across infrastructure projects.
• Work with clients to identify environmental constraints.
• Prepare environmental assessment reports.

Skills

Digital solutions for sustainability

Strong communication skills

Teamwork

Time Management

Research and report writing skills

Organisational skills

Commercial awareness

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Company Description

Work with Us. Change the World. At AECOM, we are delivering a better world. Whether improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water, or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive. We are the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, partnering with clients to solve the world’s most complex challenges and build legacies for future generations.

With accelerating infrastructure investment worldwide, our services are in great demand. We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams and become part of a global team of almost 50,000 planners, designers, engineers, scientists, digital innovators, program and construction managers, and other professionals delivering projects that create a positive and tangible impact around the world.

Job Description

Our Impact Assessment team are currently recruiting a graduate into our Edinburgh or Glasgow office for a Summer start. Please note that we will not commence interviews for this role until Feb/Mar 26.

About our Team

Impact Assessment is part of the Environment business, which comprises around 730 professionals across the UK and Republic of Ireland. The team delivers environment and sustainability solutions to both public and private sector clients and plays a leading role in addressing the climate and biodiversity emergencies.

It comprises the following practice areas: Acoustics; Air Quality; Ecology; Geospatial & Data Services; Heritage; Landscape; Water Environment; Impact Assessment; Planning; Climate Change, Sustainability & Resilience; Stakeholder Engagement; and ESIA & ESDD (international environment and sustainability work).

Impact Assessment Work Includes

• Coordinating multidisciplinary environmental inputs across a wide range of infrastructure development projects, helping them to gain development consent
• Working with clients and design teams to identify environmental constraints, avoid impacts and develop solutions, as well as delivering benefits where possible
• Coordinating the preparation of environmental assessment reports
• Post‑planning consent support to projects (including during project construction and operation)

Projects

AECOM are at the forefront of delivering Environmental Impact Assessments for the nationally significant infrastructure projects that are providing for our future. Key projects include sustainable energy generation and transmission and water distribution.

Here’s what you’ll do

We need people with inquiring minds who can ask the questions to understand and then shape projects to achieve environmentally beneficial outcomes. The ability to work with people with different perspectives is essential to understand what clients really need, what the design means, and how it matters to stakeholders. Communication – verbal and written – to interact with others and seek understanding, is important,
but we accept that it is a skill that develops over time. We like people with an appetite to learn and develop – taking personal responsibility, but understanding how to confirm that we are getting to a good outcome.

Enjoy the Perks

At AECOM, you’ll enjoy a range of core and personalised benefits designed to support your future and well‑being, customised to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid working model to ensure a work‑life balance that suits your lifestyle, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

On the Job Support and Learning

When a graduate starts at AECOM, we pair them with a senior member of the team who will guide and mentor them through their initial period working on live projects and business development tasks, to support with any technical queries.

Graduate Development Programme

Our 2‑year graduate ADVANCE programme is designed to help you build your career in AECOM. You will attend a number of instructor‑led training sessions where you will meet and hear from people across the business and take part in a series of interactive activities to equip you with the knowledge and skills you need to succeed in your role. Alongside the instructor‑led elements of the ADVANCE programme, you will also engage with an online curriculum via AECOM University and have the opportunity to join the ADVANCE webinar series. We will provide you with all the support and tools you need to achieve your professional development ambitions, which may include Chartership with a relevant international professional institution eg Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP), Institute of Environmental Science (IES).

Qualifications

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible?

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• A good understanding of the potential for digital solutions to assist in tackling environment and sustainability challenges and be able to help us in delivering our digital transformation agenda
• Willingness and ability to travel is essential. A full driving licence or access to reliable transport would be beneficial as the role will involve travel for site surveys and possible transportation of site equipment
• Ability to work flexibly under pressure, responding to changing project and programme demands
• Good communications skills – verbal and written (fluent in English) – with the confidence to engage with a variety of people (clients, colleagues, stakeholders and sub‑contractors alike) and the aptitude to rationally explain, explore and discuss technical issues and capture feedback
• Ability to work as a team
• Time Management – work within schedules to coordinate the completion of tasks through to final project completion
• Willingness and ability to learn
• Strong research and report writing skills (including web‑based research) to support team on technical issues influencing project development
• Ability to summarise technical information effectively and demonstrate diligent research techniques
• Strong skills in Microsoft Office specifically Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Strong numerate skills
• Self‑starter and enthusiastic, develops and delivers work under own initiative.
• Solid attention to detail and thorough approach to work
• Strong organisational skills
• Commercial awareness for business development, marketing, and proposal preparation.

We celebrate diversity, including neurodiversity, and believe it enriches our team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and abilities. If you are an applicant with a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact us at [e-mail]

At AECOM, we value everyone’s unique contributions and perspectives. If you meet some of the requirements above or have transferable skills you believe would benefit us, we would be delighted to hear from you!

Additional Information

Applicants are encouraged to apply as early as possible since CVs will be reviewed, and candidates selected for an advanced offer start.

Please include a covering letter with your application and provide all predicted and/or obtained academic grades.

You must have permanent right to work in the UK as we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.