Graduate Consultant - Impact Assessment

to be considered for this role, please make sure you read the job description carefully. Ensure that you submit all of the relevant documents as pdfs, including the application question at the bottom of the advert.

at ramboll, we offer a unique work environment. Our culture is built on openness, understanding, and respect, allowing you to shape your role to match your working style, aspirations, and personal life. Our nordic heritage drives our commitment to improving conditions for people and nature through our projects. As a foundation‑owned multinational company, the profit we make is reinvested into the company.

This ensures the continued development of employees or is used to fund research, charity, and humanitarian projects. Our commitment to be "the partner for sustainable change" ensures your work makes a meaningful impact on people, communities, and the environment.

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. You must have the right to live and work in the uk indefinitely without the need for sponsorship, either now or in the future.

non uk national candidates must have lived in the uk for at least three years prior to commencing an apprenticeship in order to be eligible for government funding. The above rtw status will also apply on completion of the apprenticeship.

please ensure you have fully completed your application, including answering the question in the 'how to apply' section. Any incomplete applications will automatically be rejected.

impact assessment

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.

key tasks and responsibilities with regard to environmental impact assessment will be:

• 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 walk‑over 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.

this role is available in either manchester, birmingham, edinburgh, chester, southampton or bristol. Please select your preferred option during application.

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 degree or geography.
• enthusiasm for learning, research, team work.
• bring adaptability…