Register Your Interest - Environment and Infrastructure Consultant Graduate Scheme

Register Your Interest - Environment and Infrastructure Consultant Graduate Scheme

Current Team Information

Savills is the UK’s leading real estate service provider, working with a wide range of property types—from critical national infrastructure and iconic rural estates to major urban developments and property portfolios. Our clients span both the public and private sectors.

The Environment and Infrastructure department, part of the Savills Planning Division, focuses on managing environmental impacts and sustainability for major development projects. We provide expert consultancy services on UK infrastructure projects such as energy systems and carbon capture, helping to deliver net zero outcomes. Our work involves shaping sustainable developments, ensuring environmental protection, and navigating regulatory frameworks to support project delivery.

We work closely with Savills Earth, a multidisciplinary team of over 100 professionals including engineers, energy consultants, environmental economists, and researchers. Our presence spans the UK, including offices in Brighton, London, Leeds, and Manchester, and we work alongside other property services to deliver cross-disciplinary advice.

The team is expanding and is actively seeking to grow its capabilities in environmental and consents management, air quality, climate change, acoustics, and health/social impact assessment, including a yearly graduate intake.

About This Role

As a graduate consultant, you will gain wide-ranging experience across our services. Daily tasks may include managing complex multi-disciplinary environmental assessments, producing high-quality reports, conducting baseline air quality or acoustics surveys, modelling carbon emissions or climate risks, advising clients, and supporting sustainability strategies.

This role provides holistic training across environmental impact assessment, air quality, acoustics, climate, and human health—preparing you for a long-term career in the environmental consultancy field.

Key areas you may work in include:

• EIA coordination and consents management
• Lifecycle carbon and circular economy assessments
• Air quality and acoustic assessments
• Health, equality, and social value strategies
• Water neutrality assessments
• Strategic planning and regulation

We welcome applications from recent graduates or early career professionals with 1–5 years’ experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical expertise: Develop strong knowledge and aim to become a recognised expert in a relevant environmental field.
• Project delivery: Balance priorities to deliver high-quality work, with support from senior team members.
• Project management: Help manage timelines and budgets for project tasks.
• Business development: Contribute to bids and proposals, including costing work.
• Client engagement: Attend and contribute to client meetings, and build your own network through external events.

How You’ll Make an Impact

You will work on nationally significant, high-profile projects that shape sustainable development across the UK. This role offers you:

• Early client exposure
• Opportunities for personal development
• A varied project portfolio
• Training from leading professionals
• A foundation for career growth and specialist expertise

Training

Savills provides one of the best-regarded graduate training schemes in the industry. You will attend regular training and development sessions, including technical and business skills, mock assessments, and networking events.

You’ll receive hands-on experience in:

• Environmental assessments and strategy
• Data analysis and modelling
• Report writing and proposal development

You will be supported by a mentor and a structured two-year training plan, with the opportunity to work towards IEMA, IAQM, or Chartered Environmentalist qualifications.

Career Development

Throughout your graduate programme and beyond, you will:

• Lead smaller projects and play key roles in larger ones
• Develop client-facing experience and expert technical insight
• Continue professional development (CPD) to stay up to date with legislation and policy
• Progress into senior roles with increasing responsibility and visibility

Salary

£30,000 and £1,500 sign-on bonus

Benefits

• Permanent contract (not a 2-year fixed term)
• Interest-free season ticket loan
• Royal London pension scheme
• Company laptop and mobile phone
• Training costs covered
• 25 days annual leave
• Employee discount platform (MyRewards)
• Savills Dragons’ Den – pitch your ideas directly to the Board
• Sports and charitable activities (e.g. skiing, football, rugby)
• Employee Assistance Programme (24/7 confidential service)
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Save As You Earn share option scheme (ShareSave)

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Required

• High attention to detail and well organised
• Strong verbal, numerical and report writing skills
• Proactive and motivated team player
• Strategic and analytical problem solver
• Computer literate, especially in spreadsheets

Desirable

A high-quality degree (Bachelor’s or Master’s) in Environmental Science, Sustainable Urban Design, or related field

Technical skills in:

• Excel (advanced modelling)
• GIS (ArcGIS, QGIS)
• Programming (Python, RStudio)
• Data science tools (e.g., Stata, Alteryx)

We value individualism and character in our graduates—be honest and authentic throughout the process.

How to register

To get updates about this role and when applications open, please register your interest.