Graduate Consultant – London/ Manchester

SYSTRA; Greater London, Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading transport consultancy based in the United Kingdom is seeking recent graduates for the role of Assistant Consultant. Candidates will support various projects in transport planning, focusing on bus services and mobility solutions. The ideal candidate should possess a degree in Transport Planning or Geography, along with strong analytical skills and a passion for the transport industry. This role offers the opportunity for career development and exposure to diverse projects across engineering and transport planning.

Qualifications

• Recent graduate in Transport Planning or Geography.
• Strong qualitative & quantitative research skills.
• Ability to work with complex datasets.

Responsibilities

• Support proposal development within projects.
• Execute tasks on quality, time and budget.
• Identify key facts in data and evaluate their sources.

Skills

Passion for the transport world

Attention to detail

Team working skills

Education

Degree in Transport Planning

Degree in Geography

Tools

Spreadsheets

Databases

Statistical analysis packages

Job description

Around the world, SYSTRA’s specialists plan, design, integrate, test, commission, project manage and deliver mass transit and mobility solutions that are relied on by more than 50 million people every day.

For more than 60 years, the Group has been committed to helping cities and regions contribute to their development by creating, improving and modernising their transport infrastructure with sustainability, accessibility and innovation at the heart of our designs. With over 10,300 colleagues globally and around 1000 in the UK & Ireland we are growing significantly and seeking out the very best talent to join the SYSTRA signature team and be part of leading the way in infrastructure design.

Context

SYSTRA is expanding! Over the past few years we havesignificantly increasedour Consultancy business in the UK and Ireland and expanded our services and market presence. We continue to grow our business and we are looking for exceptional Graduates to develop their career journey with us.SYSTRA is a multi-disciplinary transport consultancy business with projects running throughout and across all sectors of the engineering and transport planning industry in the UK and abroad. Our projects span all modes of transport from highways to heavy and light rail, buses and active travel modes like cycling and walking. As such we need a wide range of skills to support the variety of projects that we deliver for our clients covering our wide range of services.

Our Graduates will be given the opportunity to work as Assistant Consultants on a range of projects across the key disciplines below to gain broad insight and skills which will enable considered career development. This role will be based from either our London or Manchester offices and will initially sit within one of the following teams:

• Bus

Missions/Main Duties

• Support proposal development and deliver work ‐ packages within projects
• Execute tasks to quality, time and budget
• Record and present information clearly
• Demonstrate basic proficiency in the application of a range of methods, techniques and tools
• Identify key facts in straightforward data, evaluate them and their sources to draw basic conclusions.
• Recognise patterns and trends
• Demonstrate knowledge of various survey techniques

Profile/Skills

We would be very interested in applications from graduates in the below disciplines:

• Transport Planning
• Geography

Most importantly we want people with a passion for the transport world, an enquiring mind, great attention to detail, tenacity and team working skills.

Additional beneficial experience would be:

• Qualitative & quantitative research skills
• Working with complex datasets
• Transport or mathematical modelling
• Computer skills including some of the following:
• Spreadsheets
• Databases
• Programming / coding
• Statistical analysis packages

Please note if you are successful, you will be sent an email to complete a short video interview from Shortlister.