Graduate Carbon Consultant (Manchester)

Jacobs; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 29,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Jacobs welcomes you to the two-year Graduate Development Program to accelerate your career in environmental consultancy. You’ll learn through blended learning, mentoring and real project work while developing in four areas: human skills, consulting skills, strategy, and personal passions.

As a Graduate Carbon Consultant, you’ll support projects on climate change, carbon accounting and decarbonisation, collaborating with senior specialists and digital tools to deliver impactful insights for

Qualifications

• Working towards a relevant degree or master's in Environmental Science, Sustainability, Engineering, or climate-related field.
• Flexible, proactive mindset to drive your career forward.
• Adaptability and enthusiasm for learning.
• Permanent right to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Support greenhouse gas inventories across Scopes 1–3 for various projects and sectors.
• Conduct WLCA for infrastructure projects using tools such as eTool and OneClick LCA.
• Develop carbon management plans and contribute to decarbonisation strategies.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary design teams to implement low-carbon design principles.
• Engage with clients through workshops, technical discussions and presentations.
• Support assurance activities related to carbon accounting and sustainability targets.
• Keep up to date with carbon policy, accounting standards and sustainability topics.
• Engage with Jacobs’ COPs relevant to carbon and sustainability.
• Use digital tools and data workflows to improve data collection and analysis.

Skills

Flexible mindset

Adaptability

Education

Degree or Master’s in Environmental Science, Sustainability, Engineering, Climate Change or related field

Job description

Your impact

Join the Jacobs Graduate Development Program (GDP) and help shape better environments, communities and societies. Bring your passion, creativity and ambition — and together, we’ll create lasting change.

What You’ll Get

Our two‑year Graduate Development Program is designed to accelerate your growth as you begin your Jacobs career. Through blended learning, mentoring, progress reviews and networking, you’ll build capability across four key areas human skills, consulting skills, championing our strategy, and developing your personal passions.

You’ll tailor your learning journey to your interests, career goals and technical strengths — creating a graduate experience that’s uniquely yours. Much of your development will come through real project work, supported by your manager and mentor to ensure you gain the experiences that matter most.

The Graduate Development Program isn’t just a steppingstone — it’s a launchpad. You’ll gain the tools, exposure and support to unlock your potential, working on meaningful projects and collaborating with industry leaders to deliver solutions to complex challenges.

About The Opportunity

As a Graduate Carbon Consultant, you will support a range of projects helping clients meet the challenges of climate change. You will contribute to carbon accounting and management, decarbonisation and offsetting strategies, climate transition planning, whole life carbon assessments, sustainability disclosures, and carbon compliance, all within the framework of Jacobs’ PlanBeyond 2025+ commitment to integrating sustainability across operations and client delivery.

You will work alongside senior specialists to deliver high‑quality technical inputs, while also helping to apply digital and data‑enabled approaches to improve carbon assessments, reporting and decision‑making - a capability strengthened by Jacobs’ strategic focus on data solutions.

This role is designed for early‑career professionals who want to build deep expertise in carbon management and carbon compliance and grow within a purpose‑led organisation focused on shaping a more sustainable and resilient future.

Given the breadth of opportunities, typical tasks would include

• Support the delivery of greenhouse gas inventories across Scopes 1–3 for a variety of projects and sectors, including data analysis, preparing baseline assessments and supporting emissions forecasting and target setting.
• Conduct Whole Life Carbon Assessments (WLCA) for infrastructure projects using tools such as eTool and OneClick LCA, with the ability to learn and adapt to additional LCA tools as required.
• Support the development of carbon management plans, aligning project delivery with recognised standards (i.e. PAS 2080) and contributing to decarbonisation strategies and climate‑aligned transition plans.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary design teams to help integrate low‑carbon design principles, circularity, material efficiency and resource‑optimisation strategies into project solutions.
• Engage confidently with clients by supporting workshops, technical discussions and presentations, helping translate sustainability analysis into clear, actionable insights.
• Support assurance activities, including data checks and verification tasks related to carbon accounting and sustainability targets.
• Stay up to date with developments in carbon policy, carbon accounting standards and wider sustainability topics, ensuring project work reflects evolving guidance and best practice.
• Actively engaging in Jacobs’ global communities of practice (COP) of relevance to carbon and sustainability
• Use digital tools and structured data workflows to improve the quality, consistency and transparency of data collection and analysis.

The start date for this position is September 2027.

Here’s what you’ll need

• Be working towards a relevant Degree or Master’s level qualification in Environmental Science, Sustainability, Engineering, Climate Change or a related discipline.
• A flexible, proactive mindset and motivation to drive your career forward
• Adaptability and enthusiasm for learning
• Permanent right to work in the UK

Joining Jacobs not only connects you locally but globally. Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and belonging. We put people at the heart of our business, and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

With safety and flexibility always top of mind, we’ve gone beyond traditional ways of working so you have the support, means and space to maximize your potential. You’ll uncover flexible working arrangements, benefits, and opportunities, from well‑being benefits to our global giving and volunteering program, to exploring new and inventive ways to help our clients make the world a better place. No matter what drives you, you’ll discover how you can cultivate, nurture, and achieve your goals – all at a single global company. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and belonging in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected and creative. We accept people for who they are, and we champion the richness of different perspectives, lived experiences and backgrounds in the workplace, as a source of learning and innovation. We are committed to building vibrant communities within Jacobs, including through our Jacobs Employee Networks, Communities of Practice and our Find Your Community initiatives, allowing every employee to find connection, purpose, and belonging.Find out more about ourJacobs Employee Networks here.

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As a disability confident employer, we will interview disabled candidates who best meet the criteria. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.

We value collaboration and believe that in‑person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.