Graduate Geoenvironmental Consultant - Water

Stantec’s Graduate Geoenvironmental Consultant supports ground investigations, soil and groundwater contamination assessments, environmental risk analysis and reporting for water and infrastructure projects.

The Opportunity

Join our 2027 Graduate Programme as a Graduate Geoenvironmental Consultant in our High Wycombe or Reading office, where you will support our Water discipline by contributing to ground assessment, environmental risk assessment, reporting and site investigation work across a range of multidisciplinary projects.

As a Stantec graduate, you will collaborate with your local team, wider Water colleagues and Early Careers cohort, developing your technical expertise within a supportive and interdisciplinary environment.

You will join our geoenvironmental team within the Water discipline, contributing to high-quality projects and applying your skills to real-world challenges. The team provides geoenvironmental expertise across water-related projects and wider infrastructure schemes, working closely with engineers, environmental specialists and other technical disciplines from early design stages through to construction.

Your work will help clients understand ground conditions, manage environmental risks and make informed decisions. You will contribute to projects involving siteworks, reporting and environmental risk assessment, with opportunities to support contaminated land, groundwater and multidisciplinary water-sector projects.

About The Role

As part of our Water discipline, you will support geoenvironmental work across varied projects.

Your core areas of development will include:

• Supporting site investigation and ground assessment activities, including the collection and interpretation of environmental and ground condition information.

• Assessing potential contaminants in soil and groundwater and considering their associated environmental impact.

• Preparing technical reports, factual summaries and recommendations for clients and project teams.

• Supporting environmental risk assessment work across water-sector and infrastructure projects.

• Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams across Water and other disciplines to support project delivery.

• Developing your technical capability through varied project experience, mentoring and structured graduate development.

At Stantec, we offer a supportive environment to further your personal and professional development through our graduate programme, on-the-job learning and discipline-specific training. You will have opportunities to work with experienced technical specialists, develop broader or more specialised expertise, and receive support towards relevant professional pathways, including GSL, ICE or IES.

Your Impact

Your work will help deliver sustainable and responsible outcomes by improving understanding of ground and groundwater conditions, identifying environmental risks and supporting practical solutions for Water clients and communities. By contributing to assessments, site investigation and reporting, you will help project teams make informed decisions from early project stages through delivery.

About you

At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with a minimum degree in earth sciences, environmental or engineering, with a keen interest in working in the water sector, you will be:-

• A collaborator: You’ll love to work effectively with lots of different people at different levels, all inputting their part towards a shared goal.

• An adapter: Able to remain calm in new situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.

• A planner: Organizing and managing your own activities, dealing effectively with multiple priorities with a structured approach.

• A striver: Exhibiting ownership, consistently delivering on tasks and objectives. You’ll be motivated and proactive in your tasks, having the desire to make a real difference.

• A multi-tasker: Thinking about more than one task at a time, while still having an eye for detail.

• A problem-solver: You’ll love to give your thoughts based on what you see, being unafraid to challenge conventional thinking.

Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office 4 days per week, to ensure that you receive sufficient time with your team and receive the appropriate level of support.

What we can offer you:

• A competitive salary

• Private medical insurance

• A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection and life assurance

• Permanent employment contract to demonstrate our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec

• Professional progression plan, supporting you to gain professional chartership

Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK for an indefinite period without limitation.

About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 34,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.  

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.