Job title: Graduate Consultant
Salary: £22-25k (experience dependent)
Location: Cardiff
Type: Permanent – full time
Please note: applicants would need to be eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship and already have UK sector experience to be considered.
We have an exciting opportunity for a new graduate consultant position in our client’s Cardiff office. Our client is a small business whose staff are our most important asset.
Consultants have good opportunities for personal development with fair salaries and wider benefits, with additional tax-free bonus linked to profit share.
The successful candidate will have a good first degree (upper second or higher) in numerate discipline. A relevant postgraduate qualification would be advantageous.
We are looking for candidates with relevant analytical experience gained through their studies or through work experience.
The position is offered full-time in our client’s Cardiff office, with flexible workplace arrangements to suit individuals’ circumstances.
Your objectives for the first year will include the following:
Technical Objectives
● Undertake hydraulic and hydrological modelling across all sectors to deliver the required technical outputs. Our clients’ most common modelling software tools include Tuflow, Flood Modeller, HecRas, WINFAP, ReFH2, Causeway Flow. You will be provided with training and gain increasing proficiency in the use of at least two of these software packages in the first 6 months.
● Support hydrogeological and water quality assessments
● With appropriate training, undertake outline SUDS drainage design to achieve regulatory approval for client planning applications, including scoping and analysis of infiltration testing.
● Undertake fieldwork, analysis, and report writing required to compile the hydrogeology, hydrology, and water environment chapters of Environmental Impact Assessments for major infrastructure projects such as wind farms, solar farms, and transport infrastructure.
● Utilise GIS and CAD tools to manipulate mapping and model outputs to interpret and present data in reports.
● Contribute to large client reports and act as first author for smaller client reports and implement quality assurance processes.
● Undertake site visits to support consultancy, water monitoring projects, and implement health and safety processes.
● Manage your training to a personal development plan, agreed with your line manager, including the development of your modelling skills to an independent working proficiency within 6 months and achieving some initial competencies required for chartership under the Chartered Institute for water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) or Geological Society. This will include a mix of external and on-the-job training.
● Create a good working rapport with other team members, communicating effectively internally and externally to achieve the best possible outcomes.
● Build upon your knowledge of the regulatory framework that controls activity around the water environment and ensure compliance with relevant regulatory processes.
Project Management & Work Winning Objectives
● Manage your work, usually on 4-5 projects simultaneously, to achieve the required quality to budget and programme.
● After your first 6 months, undertake the Project Manager role for projects up to £5k in value.
● Contribute to client proposals, and after 6 months lead on proposals up to £5k in value, under the guidance of a senior and principal consultant.
● Undertake market research tasks to support the delivery of the marketing plan, under the guidance of the Director and principal consultant.
Opportunities Beyond Year One
You will have the opportunity to take on increasing responsibility and, depending on your strengths and areas of interest, you will:
● Participate in the technical delivery of wider consultancy services, such as outline design, economic assessment, and costings for flood defense schemes, water quality, and LowFlows assessments.
● Working towards promotion to consultant, usually after 2 years’ experience, and Senior Consultant, usually within 5 years’ experience (including post graduate qualifications)
● Develop improved technical processes and software tools.
● Act as Project Manager on larger projects
● Contribute to and manage higher value proposals.
● Implement aspects of the tactical marketing plan.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.


































































































