Graduate Environmental Advisor - 2025 Development Programme - Hertfordshire

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City/town: Hertfordshire, Watford

Job field: Construction

Date: Friday, April 18, 2025

Type of contract: Permanent

ID: 4956

We are excited to launch our Graduate roles, starting in September 2025! Are you ready to kickstart your career in a team where you can make a difference? Skanska, one of the world's leading project development and construction groups, is an inclusive and responsible business that is helping to build a better society.

Our graduate programme will help you build on your degree and establish a career where you will have the freedom to learn, achieve your ambitions and leave your mark on the communities in which we work.

Skanska are seeking a Graduate to join our Waste and Resources Management team at our Head Office in Leavesden. You will assist project teams with day-to-day waste and resource management requirements. You will be studying towards or have recently completed a degree in a waste, sustainability or an environmental discipline.

What you'll do as an Advisor:

• Provide advice, support and assistance to all project personnel to enable them to manage their waste management responsibilities.
• Advise on and produce Materials Management Plans, Sampling Plans, Resource Management Plans and Site Waste Management Plans.
• Interpret materials and waste classification reports in support of projects.
• Assist in the development and delivery of waste, materials, contaminated land and circular economy training.
• Represent and promote the Waste & Resource Management (WARM) Team in meetings, workshops and forums.
• Be familiar with, and promote, current environmental legislation and client requirements.
• Support waste Duty of Care audits.
• Support external liaison with regulators such as Environment Agencies and Local Authorities.

What you'll bring to the role as an Advisor:

• Ideally studying towards or recently completed a degree in a waste, sustainability or environmental discipline.
• Values driven and passionate about waste and resource management, the circular economy or contaminated land.
• Able to communicate complex information to a wide range of audiences.
• Able to work collaboratively towards shared goals.
• An interest in innovation and making a positive impact.
• Motivated to work in a construction site-based environment.
• This role requires visits to construction sites; therefore, a driving licence is required.

What we offer:

• You will be a part of a community of 100+ graduates and apprentices.
• We want you to do well and will support you to have a meaningful career beyond the apprenticeship.
• Support and guidance from experienced leaders and teams.
• Professional and social events.
• Opportunities to volunteer in the local community at least one day per year.
• Support to achieve your professional accreditation and expenses covered for the professional membership of your choice.
• Access to our employee networks - these include: Womxn's, Ability, Pride, O.N.E (Origins, Nationalities & Ethnicities), Military, and Mental Health & Wellbeing.
• My Rewards - an array of retail, dining, well-being and travel discounts.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Flex-It programme to achieve a work-life balance where possible.
• You would be joining a mental health aware organisation where we offer wellbeing support through our employee assistance programme; mental health ambassador network and awareness discussions.

The two-year graduate programme provides a pathway to develop a complete skill set, developing both technical and interpersonal skills. The programme includes interesting courses and on-the-job learning.

Number of roles: 1

At Skanska, we believe in our Purpose, we build for a better society. Through our Values of care for life, commit to customers, be better - together and act ethically and transparently you will enable us to deliver our purpose.

Equal opportunities: We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic - we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.

Reasonable adjustments: We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role: Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska.

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