Location
Shrewsbury

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Join our 2027 Graduate Programme as a Graduate Environmental Water Quality Consultant in our Shrewsbury office, supporting the Water Environment discipline and contributing to projects that protect and improve rivers, seas and wider water environments. You will collaborate with your team and wider graduate cohort, developing your professional skills and expertise within an exciting and creative interdisciplinary environment. We offer a supportive environment for your personal and professional development through our graduate programme, technical training and opportunities to work with leading specialists across the UK.

As part of Stantec’s Technical and Environmental Services group in the Water sector, you will support water companies, regulators and research bodies across the UK, with occasional international work and collaboration across wider sectors including energy and infrastructure. You will join our Environmental Water Quality team, contributing to high-quality projects and applying your knowledge, initiative and analytical skills to real-world environmental challenges.

Your work will involve assessing pressures and impacts on the water environment, helping clients improve river and coastal water quality, manage catchments effectively and develop evidence-led solutions. This may include assessing water company discharges, supporting integrated catchment management, promoting nature-based solutions and delivering sustainable improvements for sensitive habitats and communities.

Core responsibilities include managing, analysing and visualising environmental and water quality data, supporting fieldwork and environmental monitoring, undertaking numerical analysis and modelling, preparing presentations and technical reports, and applying source-pathway-receptor thinking to support integrated catchment management and investment planning. You will develop your understanding of environmental chemistry, wastewater collection and treatment, nature-based solutions, river and coastal modelling, climate change assessments and catchment management.

We are committed to supporting your professional development towards CIWEM accreditation. This role will help deliver better outcomes for communities and the environment by supporting evidence-led decisions that improve river and coastal water quality, reduce environmental pressures and inform sustainable catchment management.

Please note, graduates are expected to work in the office four days per week to ensure sufficient team interaction and support.

Experience
We value your potential over past experience. No specific prior work experience is required, but a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in an environmental-related subject is essential.

About you
- Adaptable: able to remain calm in new and changing situations, switching comfortably between dynamic tasks.
- Perseverant: composed in the face of setbacks, approaching challenges with confidence and determination.
- Focused: able to tune out distractions and perform effectively.
- Eager Learner: learns from experiences and anticipates how situations may unfold.
- Collaborative: works effectively with diverse teams, considering others’ perspectives to achieve better outcomes.

Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK indefinitely.

Qualifications
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in an environmental-related discipline.
- Minimum A Level qualification (or equivalent) in Maths.