EIA Graduate/Junior Associate - Cardiff

Are you ready to kick-start your career with the world’s largest pure play sustainability consultancy?

ERM are offering a fantastic opportunity to join our rapidly growing team in Cardiff – come and learn from the best! Supporting our journey to Net Zero, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to a variety of projects including renewables, technology, mining for critical minerals, infrastructure and hydrogen - whilst we do our utmost in supporting your professional development - helping you to build and grow your career here at ERM!

You’ll contribute to surveys and technical report writing, assist in the delivery of Environmental Impact Assessments and associated studies, and support environmental inputs for planning applications ranging from screening and scoping to environmental appraisals and large-scale EIA projects, as well as post planning condition discharge. You will help us build and maintain our strong client relationships, as well as with internal and external networks - ensuring client satisfaction through project communication, engagement and programme delivery.

Why join ERM?

Flexible working to suit your life – need to do the school run? Not a problem! More productive and happy if you work from home a couple days per week? Go ahead! Love to travel? Ask about our Cross Border Remote Working! You’ll have 25 days annual leave + public holidays, 6% employer pension contribution, twice annual promotion opportunities, annual salary review and performance related bonus, private medical insurance, life assurance, income protection, EV car salary sacrifice scheme, Cycle2Work scheme, travel season ticket loan, volunteering and Give As You Earn opportunities, employee assistance programme and premium account for Calm (the #1 app for sleep and meditation) in order to look after your wellbeing, plus discounts on gym membership and gift cards for a wide variety of retailers and restaurants.

We offer employees a safety first, diverse and inclusive culture in which difference is embraced, valued and celebrated. Through the ERM Foundation we provide support for nonprofit organisations and social enterprises that share our commitment to creating a more sustainable and equitable world.  With a robust career framework in place and 20+ technical communities of global experts you can join, there are great opportunities to advance your career here at ERM.

About you

You will have obtained a degree qualification which contains an Environmental Assessment module. You will be super organised and have great attention to detail, as well as having the ability to work well under pressure.

We expect that at this career level you’ll be in the office for the majority of the week, soaking up the knowledge available around you, so you must live within daily commutable distance of our Cardiff office, or be willing to fully relocate. Please state any intention to relocate in your cover letter.

Interest in this vacancy will be high and competition will be tough, so how do you stand out? Please attach a cover letter to tell us about your skills and motivations. Detailing any related part time or voluntary work you have done during your studies will be advantageous. Please also attach any written academic or professional references. Welsh language skills will put you an advantage, as the team do some work in Welsh, they also celebrate Welsh culture days!

We will close the job advert to applications as soon as we have a very strong talent pool, no applications can be submitted following this, so don’t delay – apply today!

Applications will be reviewed w/c 6th Jan, the recruitment process will be one call with a recruiter, followed by one personal interview, either by Teams or in our Cardiff office.

We look forward to hearing from you – good luck.

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