Environmental Graduate Scheme

Shape a sustainable tomorrow

Do you want to join a team that asks questions and dares to see things differently?

We are Atkins

Réalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. When you join us, you'll help create world‑class sustainable solutions that connect people, data, and technology. We're transforming infrastructure and energy systems, growing partnerships with our clients, and bringing the most complex projects across the globe to life. Join us and engineer a better future for our planet and its people.

Our global team of 36,000+ employees speak over 70 languages and represent 130 nationalities across six continents. Our work covers a variety of sectors, including transportation, infrastructure, environment, water, energy, defence, technology and aerospace.

On our Graduate Development Programme, you take the driver's seat in your career. Grow personally and professionally, guided by inspiring managers. Say yes to opportunities that spark your interest, knowing you'll have training and the support you need to maintain a great work‑life balance.

Reaching your full potential means being able to bring your whole self to work and feeling like you belong. Find out more about our global programme Different makes a difference.

As an Environmental graduate, you'll enjoy variety, working on large and small projects with the opportunity to explore different career pathways.

You can join the following business areas:
We’re the practice which helps our clients with innovative design, research and advisory services for a sustainable future. With us, get to work in sectors that excite you, across water, cities & development, transport, aviation and energy. As part of the team, you'll work on a variety of projects, from airports to reservoirs, motorways to campuses, ensuring they’re safe, eco‑friendly, and safeguard our natural resources.

You’ll be sharpening your skills on the latest digital technologies while pressing towards a carbon‑neutral future.

Find out more about our Infrastructure teams and locations on our website.

• A passion for working in a consultancy environment
• Championing a culture where everyone belongs
• A desire to work collaboratively with a curious approach, challenging yourself to find new solutions
• Enthusiasm and drive to develop your skillset and seek out development opportunities within a supportive team
• Motivation to achieve professional accreditation (where applicable)
• Comfortable to embrace agile ways of working and learning new technologies
• Commitment to spend a minimum of three days a week in the office or on client site (project dependent). Being together in person helps us build better relationships, collaborate more effectively, and accelerate your learning and development.

Our graduate development programme is designed to give you an insight into many areas of work, and the chance to explore where your own skills and interests lie. It features a series of training events and modules, professional development, mentoring and on‑the‑job experience as well as practical skills development.

From day one, you'll work on real projects that offer scale and variety, collaborating with colleagues and creating meaningful impact on the world around us. You'll work towards your professional accreditation (where applicable) – whichever path you take, your future starts here.

We’ll reward you for your efforts, and support you in a variety of ways, including offering:

• a settling‑in payment of £2,500 when you join and a further payment of £2,500 when you achieve chartered status or reach an equivalent stage in your professional development
• 33 days annual leave, including bank holidays, with the option to buy an additional 15 days or sell up to 5 days
• two paid annual volunteer days
• an impressive range of rewards and benefits
• a variety of employee networks for social interaction, peer support and personal development
• opportunities to further develop yourself by applying to various company‑wide development programmes
• an enhanced maternity scheme and family‑friendly policies
• access to our Employee…