Graduate Environmental Water Quality Consultant - Water - 2027

About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 32,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.

The Opportunity

Join our 2027 Graduate Programme as a Graduate Water Quality Consultant in our Cardiff office, where you will support our Water Environment discipline and contribute to projects that protect and improve rivers, seas and wider water environments.

As a Stantec graduate, 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.

Stantec’s market-leading Technical and Environmental Services group in the Water sector supports 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.

You will work on projects that assess pressures and impacts on the water environment, helping clients understand how to improve river and coastal water quality, manage catchments more effectively and develop evidence-led solutions. This may include assessing water company discharges, supporting integrated catchment management, promoting nature-based solutions and helping to deliver sustainable improvements for sensitive habitats and communities.

About The Role

By joining our Environmental Water Quality team, you will support predominantly water-sector projects and develop skills in water quality assessment, environmental evidence gathering, numerical analysis and technical reporting. Your core responsibilities will include:

• Managing, analysing and visualising environmental and water quality data.
• Supporting fieldwork and environmental monitoring activities where required.
• Undertaking numerical analysis and modelling to help understand water quality pressures and impacts.
• Preparing presentations, technical reports and evidence-led outputs for clients and project teams.
• Applying source-pathway-receptor thinking to support integrated catchment management and investment planning.
• Developing 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 employees in achieving relevant professional qualifications and accreditation. This role will support your professional development towards CIWEM.

Your Impact

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. Your work will help clients respond to emerging challenges facing the quality of rivers and seas, while developing practical, resilient and environmentally responsible solutions.

About you:

At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Hydrology, Maths, Physics, Engineering, Computer Programming or an environmental-related degree, you will also have a minimum A Level qualification (or equivalent) in Maths or Chemistry and will be:-

• An Adapter: you’re able to remain calm in new and changing situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.
• A Perseverer: you stay composed in the face of setbacks, approaching challenges with confidence and determination.
• A focussed individual: you focus on what matters, tuning out distractions to perform effectively in any situation.
• An Eager Learner: you learn from your experiences and the world around you, using this knowledge to anticipate how situations may unfold.
• A Collaborator: you work effectively with lots of different people, considering other’s perspectives to shape better outcomes.

Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office 4 days per week, to ensure that colleagues are able to provide the appropriate level of support.

What we can offer you:

• A competitive salary
• Private medical insurance
• A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection and life assurance
• Permanent employment contract to demonstrate our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec
• Professional progression plan, supporting you to become chartered with ICE.

Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK for an indefinite period without limitation.

We offer multiple start dates throughout next summer in June, July, August and September.

Please note: we recruit on an ongoing basis and therefore may close this role before the stated closing date so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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