targetjobs UK
Graduate Environmental Advisor
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Costain's strong partnership with Thames Water continues into AMP8
We have secured our position on their Capital Delivery Programme. The Thames Water AMP8 Capital Delivery Programme (2025-2030) covers a mix of non-infrastructure projects ranging from smaller capital maintenance to large civil new build schemes. Working on a variety of water and wastewater projects, you will be involved in the design, construction, commissioning, and putting to work of contracts to ensure they are completed in an efficient manner.
Location
Thames Water Sites across our West Batch, including Oxford, Surrey, West of London.
Costain's Graduate Development Programme
The programme will focus on helping you grow your personal and leadership skills, alongside business and technical skills you will learn day-to-day on the job. The programme will provide you with specific technical training for your specialised discipline and is delivered in a variety of formats throughout the 2 years. It will allow you to establish a network of contacts that will help and support you through your first 2 years and beyond. We expect some of our graduates to rotate after a period of 8-12 months to another project/sector of the business to fully understand the depth and breadth of the services offered by the company.
Our line managers are fully supportive of the Graduate Development Programme and will be involved in helping you along the way. In addition to the programme, we offer mentoring and support in every area of work, as well as a structured training programme to enable graduates to work towards achieving Chartership. Graduates may have the opportunity to work on a number of exciting and progressive projects around the UK during the 2-year period, in sectors including nuclear, highways, rail, water, airports, and tunnels.
Responsibilities
- Working as part of a Framework/Project, support the Framework/Project Environmental Manager in their role.
- Understand the Company Health & Safety and Environmental Policies and Procedures and statutory requirements as they affect the Project operations and ensure implementation.
- Assist in providing operational and functional management with advice on preventing accidents, ill health, environmental incidents, and practical implementation of the company’s SHE policies.
- Assist in providing operational and functional management with advice for obtaining legal consents, licences, and exemptions such as discharge consents, abstraction licences, and waste management licences.
- Assist the Project Manager or Framework/Project SHE/E Manager in preparing and developing the Framework/Project Health, Safety and Environmental Management Plan (‘HASEMP’) & coordinators reviews.
- Assist the SHE advisors in undertaking site SHE inspections.
- Assist where necessary with tenders.
- When directed, assist with the preparation of Environmental Risk Assessments and Method Statements.
- Assist with the monitoring and reporting of Project SHE Performance as directed.
- Assist in investigating environmental incidents.
- Assist in the preparation and implementation of SHE training courses, as directed.
- Actively promote the company ‘BE SAFE’, ‘BE HEALTHY’, and ‘SAVE IT’ campaigns and implement best practice principles across the business, including stakeholders such as the supply chain.
- Set standards and lead by example in the management of SHE.
- Maintain own level of knowledge and competency in SHE management and responsibilities, including appropriate qualification and professional development.
- Obtain competency cards in line with company Competence Card Compliance policy, e.g., CSCS / CCNSG.
- Develop reports and attend SHE Meetings / Environmental related groups and forums / Client handover meetings to represent GCA environmental team.
- Undertake monthly environmental audits and report back on findings.
- Facilitate internal/external audits as part of ISO 14001 accreditation and client-related audits.
- Undertake supply chain audits and assist in sub-contractor approval.
- Promote and advertise site best practice within the framework and to the wider business.
- Develop and maintain a network of contacts within appropriate regulatory departments.
- Write, apply, and ensure compliance with consenting applications.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Qualifications
Essential:
- Environmental related experience.
- Environmental related degree & IEMA Associate Qualification or equivalent NVQ.
- Affiliate Member IOSH or Affiliate Member IEMA or equivalent.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and time management skills.
- Passion for Costain's Carbon Net Zero targets.
- IT proficiency.
- Able to work accurately and appreciate its importance to the team.
- Willingness to learn with appropriate instruction.
- Excel at building and maintaining positive relationships.
- Ability to thrive in pressured situations.
- Empathy and effective communication with all people, regardless of their background or circumstances.
- Mobility to work on various projects over the 2-year programme throughout the UK - Full UK Driving Licence is essential.
- Ability to obtain security clearance as some roles are within the Nuclear & Defence sector.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Desirable
- Relevant SHE experience in the construction/engineering industry.
- Tech IOSH or AIEMA or equivalent.
Please note that if you are invited for an interview, we will require you to produce your passport and/or right to work documentation.
As some of our project sites are based in remote locations, note that you will be required to travel to site.
About Us
Costain helps to improve people’s lives with integrated, leading-edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK’s energy, water, transportation, and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising, and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK’s leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We focus on blue-chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation, or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading-edge solutions digitally optimized through five services covering the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.
Costain appreciates the time and effort taken when applying for one of our positions but, due to the high volume of responses, we are unable to provide individual feedback on candidates at the application phase. We do share individual feedback following an interview.
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant who discloses a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job, as defined by the employer. In certain recruitment situations, such as high-volume, seasonal, and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall number of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills