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Placement Student - Environmental & Sustainability

alary: £19,760 per year

Location: Belfast

Start Date/Confirm duration: 12 months, commencing July 2023

Positions Available: 1

We are looking for suitable candidates to join our 2023 placement scheme within our Consulting business unit. This is an exciting opportunity to gain work experience with leading infrastructure services and engineering company. Our 12-month placements are designed for second and third-year undergraduate students looking for practical work experience to support their university studies. You may only be with us for one year, but we’ll give you valuable work experience and development opportunities, with high performers given the opportunity to join our Graduate Programme.

From day one you’ll be given real responsibility, gaining invaluable experience and exposure working alongside our industry experts and across your team.

The role

As a Placement Student, you will be working alongside the team to deliver the following:

  • Advise on environmental aspects of projects including but not limited to EIAs, ecological studies, energy use, environmental hazards
  • Prepare reports to respond to the EA and Local Authorities regarding the PPG’s, scoping reports, planning submissions and permitting for projects
  • Ensure compliance with Health and safety, Environmental and other appropriate regulations
  • Monitor relevant technical aspects of quality plans
  • Report variances and provide suggestions for corrective actions
  • Provide input into project quality plans

What will you bring?

We treat people as individuals. We want a range of abilities, from practicality and problem-solving to precision and creativity. That goes for diversity too. We want a workforce as diverse as the communities we serve and value the experiences that you bring to our business. You don’t need prior work experience as we’ll provide you with the experience you desire but you need to enjoy a challenge and possess the ability to problem solve and engage with your team.

We therefore keep our list of essential requirements to a minimum, but there are a few things needed to qualify for our programme:

  • Working towards disciplines in Sustainability, Environmental and Business Studies (other Sustainability related disciplines will be considered)
  • Available to join the programme in July 2023

Why Amey?

Amey Consulting is one of the UK’s leading engineering consultancies, inspiring change and driving improvements across the UK's critical infrastructure to create a positive impact on society. Our ambition is to leave a legacy of sustainable infrastructure for future generations.

As a long term and trusted partner, we have integrated the genuine world leading capability of our consulting business with our client facing teams to produce an operating environment where back office applications, asset management data and client and customer interfaces are integrated to enable greater client insight and better decision support.

We embrace difference and give you freedom to perform because we know, if nothing holds you back, together we can deliver the exceptional for our clients, our communities, and our planet. It’s the reason why Investors in People put us among the top 1% of employers.

In return

Our rewards make us feel valued here at Amey Consulting. If you’re happy, you’ll think better. It’s a simple formula but one that puts your wellbeing as a top priority, that’s why we’ve worked hard to build a reward and benefits program that puts you first, including:

  • Exceptional development and progression plan
  • Professional development workshops
  • 24 Days annual leave + Bank Holidays, Pension Scheme
  • Choices: Our flexible benefits scheme is tailored by you, including buying additional annual leave, cycle2work scheme, charity giving and gym membership
  • Save with Amey: Our online voucher portal gives you access to thousands of discounts from leading retailers to help you save on days out, or nights in
  • Social Value: You’ll get 2 Community Involvement Day each year to volunteer for a charity of your choice and further opportunities to support fundraising initiatives for CRUK, or where eligible, participate in the DoE Gold Award

Next steps

We appreciate that applying for a programme, for some, can be a new or daunting experience, which is why we try to make our process as simple, transparent, and as engaging as possible.

Step 1: Follow the link to apply and answer a few simple questions.

Step 2: Complete our web-based behavioural assessment.

Step 4: Attend an assessment centre or interview, where you’ll meet your future colleagues.

Step 5: Receive a decision and constructive feedback.

Our process really is as simple as that, so what are you waiting for? Good Luck!

For this role, the deadline for applications is 15th January 2023 with assessment centres and interviews taking place thereafter.


In the meantime why not take a look at our Early Careers Hub where you can find out more about our recruitment process, our various Programmes, the benefits we offer, our Social Value commitments, Wellbeing and Support Services, along with a whole host of other useful information about how you would be part of our Early Careers community here at Amey.