Graduate Consultant - Construction / Sustainability

Sewell Group; Ledston; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Bonus opportunity

25 days holiday

Employee ownership/Co-Owner option

Pension scheme

Staff discounts

Training and development

Job summary

Sewell Group is offering a graduate opportunity within Sewell Advisory, based at one of our offices in Hull, Leeds or Stockton-on-Tees. The role provides exposure to consultancy, estates advice, development and project management across health, local authority and education sectors.

You will participate in a personalised induction, regular performance reviews, and professional development with sponsorship towards accreditations. Salary is £25,000–£26,000 per annum.

Qualifications

• Hold or be working towards a degree in a built environment discipline.
• Ability to analyse data, monitor progress and identify risks.
• Strong organisation and ability to manage multiple projects.
• Excellent listening and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Graduate involvement in customer-facing projects from the outset.
• Develop communication and technical skills across commissions.
• Gain exposure to different teams, disciplines and projects.
• Identify strengths and interests to guide career development.

Skills

Data analysis

Communication

Teamwork

Time management

Education

Degree in built environment / project management / sustainability

Tools

MS Office / Excel

Job description

Location: At one of our offices based in either Hull, Leeds or Stockton-on-Tees

Hours: 8.30am-5.00pm, Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £25,000 - £26,000 per annum

Visa Sponsorship: This position does not meet the UK Home Office sponsorship requirements (specifically, financial thresholds). Therefore, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship.

Closing Date: 20 November 2026

Group Interview Dates: 16 & 17 December 2026

2nd stage Interview Dates: W/c 4 January 2027

Role Overview

As the consultancy division within the business, Sewell Advisory is an industry leader in delivering strategic estates advice, development & project management and operational management to clients across the UK.

We’re a friendly, approachable team, and whilst our backgrounds vary, the one thing that’s consistent is our passion for what we do. Our collective vision is to be the consultant partner of choice to our customers and our mission is to achieve excellence in our advice and our solutions, delivering long-term added value to public services.

Our customers are predominantly across the health, local authority and education sectors, helping GPs, health centres. hospitals, Councils, schools, colleges and universities to identify creative solutions to their estate and service delivery-related challenges.

To learn more about Sewell Group and Sewell Advisory, please follow the link below:

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Role Responsibilities

Our graduates are involved in customer-facing projects from the outset, providing the opportunity to develop both communication and technical skills across a variety of commissions, while gaining valuable insight into the sectors and markets in which we operate.

The successful candidates will work across our diverse businesses, offering broad exposure to different teams, disciplines and projects. This allows time to explore individual strengths and interests, helping to identify where skills are best suited before choosing to specialise later in their career, should they wish to do so.

Why Start Your Career With Us?

• We will provide you with a personalised induction programme, intended to make sure that by the end of 90 days you have been introduced to all aspects of our business, our vision and values, the wider group structure and your role – as well as getting to know your new colleagues
• You will take part in regular reviews to track your development and progress and identify opportunities for further training and improvement to help you on your career path
• We offer flexibility and autonomy in the direction of your career, with the opportunity to gain knowledge and experience across our varied service offer
• We will support your further professional development, including providing Better Business Cases and Project Management specific training and then additional sponsorship to pursue your own chosen professional accreditation (e.g. RICS, APM, CIOB)
• We have a variety of Internal training and development opportunities, including leadership workshops, personal development skills, management training and ‘learning lunches’
• Our wider group structure enables us to offer coaching and mentoring with a diverse group of business leaders
• Be part of a peer-to-peer support network with other graduates and juniors across the Sewell Group
• We enable your access to local networking events through our corporate membership of Marketing Humber Bondholders and other similar organisations

Requirements

As well as exhibiting our company behaviours of being Positive, Professional, Customer Focused, a Team Player and Doing the Right Thing, we are specifically seeking candidates who hold, or are currently working towards, a degree in a relevant built environment, project management or sustainability discipline, and who are passionate about building a career within these fields.

Therefore the successful candidates will have the following:

Essential

• Hold, or be working towards completion of, a degree qualification in Project Management, Quantity Surveying, Building Surveying, Construction Management, Real Estate, Sustainability, Net Zero Carbon, Environmental Sustainability, Climate Change, Sustainable Building Design, Building Services Engineering, Construction or a related built environment discipline.
• Ability to analyse and interpret data, monitor progress, identify risks, undertake research and present findings clearly to colleagues and clients.
• Demonstrate effective organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and support the successful delivery of multiple projects simultaneously.
• Promote and present a professional personal and company brand in all dealings
• Excellent listening and communication skills
• The ability to work as a team member in a busy working environment, but also the ability to work unsupervised at times
• The ability to learn and work with new technology and software
• Have effective and efficient time management skills
• Awareness of the importance of confidentiality
• Have good attention to detail and a high level of accuracy
• Be able to implement new and improved ways of working
• Hold a full, valid UK driving licence and own transport

Desirable

• Knowledge of recognised project management methodologies and best practice frameworks, such as APM, PRINCE2 or MSP.
• Experience gained through a university project, placement year, internship or dissertation focused on project delivery, construction, infrastructure, estates or property development, sustainability, climate resilience or net zero carbon.
• Awareness of construction legislation, health and safety requirements and the responsibilities of duty holders under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations.
• Knowledge of whole-life carbon, embodied carbon and operational carbon concepts.
• Understanding of sustainability assessment methodologies and reporting frameworks.
• Membership of, or aspiration to join, a relevant professional body.
• Previous working experience in a consultancy, estates or property-related role
• Experience working in or with the public sector

Sewell Group and its subsidiary businesses are equal opportunities employers, recruiting within the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to the promotion of diversity and equal opportunity, as an employer and in the delivery of our products and services.

As a committed safe employer, an enhanced DBS (criminal record) check will be carried out for the successful candidate of this role.

Benefits

• Annual Bonus opportunity
• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), rising with length of service to 30 days
• Being a Co-Owner of Sewell Estates, learn more here: Employee Ownership - Sewell Group (sewell-group.co.uk)
• Auto Enrolment pension
• Staff discounts
• High Street & Retail discount schemes
• Bike 2 Work Scheme
• Technology Scheme
• Paid Parental Leave and Sickness Absence schemes

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