Impact Assessment Graduate 2027

Ramboll3; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and flexible working

27 days holiday + 8 bank holidays

Job summary

Ramboll in the UK is offering an Environmental Impact Assessment Graduate role based in Cambridge, with options in other UK offices. You will undertake environmental management and assessment on national and international projects within Ramboll's Impact Assessment Global Service Line, working with a team of specialists.

The role emphasizes learning through the Early Careers programme, mentoring, and a structured development framework, with opportunities to contribute to environmental

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Environmental Impact Assessment or related field.
• Enthusiasm for learning, research, teamwork.
• Adaptability and good time management, problem solving and analytical skills.
• Good digital literacy; GIS and AI literacy would be beneficial.
• Be numerically competent and have excellent English communication and report writing skills.

Responsibilities

• Support early stage feasibility assessment and site selection with environmental constraints analysis.
• Contribute to screening, scoping and preparing Environmental Statements and post‑consent support.
• Coordinate environmental disciplines and deliver baseline surveys (ecology, peat, noise, air quality).
• Conduct site inspections and walkover surveys.
• Support stakeholder engagement during proposals, including public consultations and regulator interactions.
• Manage inputs of environmental information to design and interface with design teams and clients.
• Draft Environmental Statement chapters, including introductory and cumulative assessment sections.
• Develop disciplines and contribute to environmental chapters; assist in proposals and BD activities.

Skills

GIS

AI literacy

Teamwork

Time management

Analytical skills

Numerical skills

Report writing

English skills

Education

Bachelors/Masters in EIA

Tools

ArcGIS

Job description

Please note - Ramboll cannot sponsor any post-study or Skilled Worker visas for our early career roles, as the Home Office's eligibility criteria would not be met.

Launch your career and find your professional home at Ramboll. Be part of a supportive and engaging environment, where you can challenge and explore your professional interests, passions and curiosity in ways that make a positive difference to individuals, communities and the environment.

We value the things that make you unique. Ramboll's Nordic heritage and founding aim, of improving conditions for people and nature, continue to guide our decision-making. As a foundation-owned multinational company, with 97.5% shares owned by the Ramboll Foundation, profits are reinvested into the company for the continued development of employees or used to fund research, charitable and humanitarian projects.

Our commitment to be 'The Partner for Sustainable Change' and to act responsibly in everything that we do, means that you'll be working on projects that make a positive difference to individuals, communities and the environment.

Our Early Careers Programme - EarlyCareers@Ramboll

We have designed a training programme that will boost your personal, commercial and technical development to kick-start your career with Ramboll. You will also be paired with a mentor and have access to a clear framework to work towards your professional development.

The Early Careers Design Challenge is one of the highlights of the graduate training. This is a fun and exciting event where you get to work on a project for one of our clients that will provide you with an insight into the concept of design. You also get the opportunity to collaborate and network with amazing people and peers.

About this opportunity

The role will involve the opportunity to undertake environmental management and assessment with opportunities to work on both UK national project environmental impact assessments, and International environmental and social impact assessments. The team forms part of Ramboll's Impact Assessment Global Service Line, a team of over 450 Impact Assessment specialists working across a broad range of sectors including Energy, Infrastructure, Development & Planning, Marine and International Finance. The UK Impact Assessment team covers environmental impact assessment, planning and socio-economic assessments.

We are looking for Impact Assessment Graduates in our teams based in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Chester, Cambridge. Please ensure you specify your location preferences on your application.

Key tasks and responsibilities

• Supporting early stage feasibility assessment/ site selection and environmental constraints analysis and working with our Planning team to understand the implications of planning policy
• All stages of environmental impact assessment including screening, scoping and preparing Environmental Statements and post-consent support managing compliance with environmental commitments/ planning conditions/ DCO requirements
• Environmental management to coordinate environmental disciplines and deliver baseline surveys - opportunities to support surveys in disciplines such as ecology, peat, noise and air quality.
• Site inspections and walkover surveys.
• Supporting stakeholder engagement as part of application proposals, with public consultation events and engagement with regulators/planning authorities
• Managing the inputs of environmental information to the design, and interfacing with design and client teams, managing the delivery of surveys and of the Environmental Statement.
• Drafting Environmental Statement chapters, including Introductory chapters, cumulative assessment chapters and Non-Technical Summaries.
• Opportunities to develop skills contributing to individual disciplines, and preparation of environmental chapters.
• Support business development and the preparation of proposals.

Your skills and experience

For this role, we believe your starting point is:

• A Bachelors or Masters level degree in one or more of the following subjects: Environmental Impact Assessment, Environmental Assessment and Management, Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Oceanography, marine related degrees or Geography.
• Enthusiasm for learning, research, teamwork
• Bring adaptability and have good time management, problem solving and analytical skills
• Good digital literacy - experience with GIS and AI literacy (e.g. LLMs) would be beneficial;
• Be numerically competent;
• Possess excellent English communication skills, both oral and written;
• Have excellent report writing skills

Benefits you will enjoy

• Hybrid and flexible working
• 27 days holiday per year and 8 days bank holid