We're looking for a  Sustainability & Environmental Graduate  to join our Kier Places team based in Rushden, Northampton.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading construction and infrastructure services company on our structured graduate development programme. These programmes have been designed to provide you with the experiences and tools needed for progression within your chosen career.

Location: Rushden, Northampton-  with travel required around the A14 corridor and the South of UK

Contract: Permanent, full time - 40 hours per week 

Salary: £29,250 per annum

Start date: September 2025

What will you be responsible for?

Kier Group is a leading UK construction and infrastructure services company, made up of different business divisions including Construction, Transportation, Natural Resources, Nuclear & Networks, and Property. With a diverse range of opportunities across the country, we offer a dynamic and inclusive environment where you can launch a rewarding career. To learn more about our business and divisions, visit here.

As a Sustainability & Environmental Graduate, you will work across our projects with the Social Value and Environmental team. Working closely with our team of Environmental Advisors and Social Value Coordinators, supporting them in delivering targets across a wide range of contracts in Kier Places.

In this exciting role you will proactively work with project teams, subcontractors, and local stakeholder partners, to establish and develop social engagement sessions to help support the needs of our local community.  The role will also involve ensuring environmental compliance through our system Rio, as well as reporting, monitoring, and analysing our social value and environmental data.

Your day to day will include:

• Working alongside our Environment Advisor and Social Value Coordinators to deliver agreed Environment and Social Sustainability targets during the lifecycle of the project.
• Being an active contributor to the Places strategy on all things Sustainability.
• Liaising with subcontractors to collate documentation and data for Environment and Social value.
• Uploading environmental information and documentation onto Rio ensuring legal compliance.

How does the graduate scheme work?

When you join, you will be enrolled onto our graduate scheme. The programme will take 2 years to complete and has been designed to equip you with the skills you need to excel in your chosen profession and help you achieve professional membership or chartership.

You can find more details about our schemes here.

Benefits for you

• Practical experience: gain valuable hands-on experience in your field.
• Skill improvement: develop technical and professional skills.
• Networking: build professional relationships and expand your network.
• Career insight: gain insights into your chosen industry and potential career paths.

What are we looking for?

We're looking for people due to graduate in 2025, or have recently graduated within the past three years, with a degree in Environmental/ Sustainability or a related field. 

The role of Sustainability & Environmental Graduate is great for you if:

• Data handling and using it to tell a story - through verification and reporting
• Effective verbal and written communication
• Engaged with a commitment to create and sustain relationships at all levels
• Confidence in meeting and working with a diverse range of people from a variety of backgrounds.
• Hold a full UK driver license.

Rewards and benefits

We are proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a variety of flexible benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a high priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

We look forward to seeing your application to join the #constructionrevolution #joinkier

Recruitment timeline

October 2024: Initial applications

November 2024: Application reviews

January 2025 onwards: Virtual and in-person assessment centres