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Imagine starting your career by helping to tackle some of the biggest environmental challenges facing our communities today. As an Environmental Practitioner Degree Apprentice, you’ll combine university study with meaningful, hands-on experience, contributing to projects that help protect our environment, strengthen communities and create more sustainable places for the future.
You’ll be part of a supportive, multidisciplinary team where your ideas and perspectives are valued. You’ll learn from experienced environmental professionals, collaborate with specialists across different disciplines and have the opportunity to discover the areas of environmental practice that inspire you most.
Most importantly, we don’t expect you to know everything from day one. This is an apprenticeship designed to help you learn, grow and build your confidence as you develop your career.
With more than 100 years of experience in the water sector, our Water and Environment specialists work with clients throughout the entire project lifecycle, from early planning and design through to permitting, operation and management.
We bring together technical expertise, innovative thinking and a shared commitment to achieving positive environmental, social and economic outcomes. Our teams assess and manage environmental risks while identifying opportunities to improve the world around us, creating solutions that deliver lasting value for clients, communities and the environment.
We’re also helping to set new standards through systems thinking, connecting infrastructure with nature-based solutions and looking beyond individual projects to maximise their wider social, environmental and economic benefits.
Environmental Practitioner - BSc (Hons) in Environment and Sustainability.
A degree apprenticeship gives you the opportunity to earn while you learn, combining a paid role with structured academic study towards a nationally recognised qualification.
As an Environmental Practitioner Degree Apprentice, you’ll put your academic learning into practice on real projects while developing the technical, professional and interpersonal skills that will help you build a rewarding career.
You’ll have people around you to support your development. This includes your line manager, a professional mentor, other apprentices and early career professionals, as well as your university tutors. Regular reviews between you, your university and Mott MacDonald will help you reflect on your achievements, celebrate your progress and identify the next steps in your development.
From the beginning, you’ll have opportunities to contribute to real environmental projects while learning from experienced colleagues.
Depending on the projects you’re involved in, your experience could include:
Your safety and wellbeing are important to us. Where you support surveys and site-based activities, you’ll learn how to plan and undertake work safely, including preparing appropriate health and safety documentation and working alongside experienced colleagues.
Some travel during the working day may occasionally be required, alongside any travel associated with your apprenticeship studies.
One of the exciting things about environmental practice is its breadth. During your apprenticeship, you could gain exposure to areas including:
You could also contribute to projects across sectors including water, flood management, roads, rail and defence, working with public and private sector clients.
This variety will give you the opportunity to build a broad understanding of environmental practice before developing your own areas of interest. As your experience and confidence grow, you’ll be encouraged to take greater ownership, explore what motivates you and shape the direction of your career.
If you are successful and are offered an apprenticeship with us, you will enrol onto the Environmental Practitioner BSc at UWE Bristol.
Their eligibility are as follows:
Our apprenticeships offer more than just a job - they’re an opportunity to shape your future.
As a paid degree apprentice, you’ll gain hands-on experience working on real projects while studying towards your degree. You’ll develop your technical and professional skills alongside experienced engineers, applying what you learn through your studies directly in the workplace.
As well as the eligibility criteria detailed, above, we are looking for future apprentices with the following strengths:
An apprenticeship should be more than just a job. We know this and so do you. That’s why with our apprenticeship roles we aim to give you the experience and technical knowledge you need to progress your career. From the moment you join us, you’ll receive the training you need.
You will be assigned a mentor, who will guide you to meet the objectives of your professional training needs. You will join our three-year early careers soft skills development programme – Accelerating your Future, which is designed to give you the skills and tools necessary for a long-lasting successful career here at Mott MacDonald.
Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024.
Our ethos is to develop, train and retain our apprentices and therefore we are looking for a long-term relationship with our apprentices. For this reason, we cannot accept applications from candidates who would be working under the Graduate visa route or other time-limited visas, (irrespective of visa duration), due to their temporary nature and the requirement for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route in future.
We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in the future.
CVs and cover letters are not required as part of the application process. Candidates will be assessed through a single-stage strengths-based interview.
These opportunities are for our offices in England and Wales.
In your application form, you will be asked to select your preferred discipline, sector, and location.
We want you to feel supported and able to perform at your best throughout our recruitment process. If there is anything we can do to make applying or interviewing with us more accessible, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we'll be happy to discuss how we can help.
We personally review every completed application form we receive as this part of our selection process is entirely human-led. We do not use AI tools at this stage and kindly expect you not to either. We want you to answer each application question with authenticity so we can get to know the real you.
