Environmental Management Graduate - Early Careers

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It’s an exciting time to join one of our Early Careers programmes at QinetiQ. We are always looking for great people to join our team, whether you are taking your first steps in starting a career or you are looking to make a career change, we have a wide range of exciting opportunities for you.

About The Team

Environmental Management:

As an Environmental Management / Sustainability graduate in QinetiQ you will have the opportunity to join our highly skilled team of Environmental Management specialists. You will be able to contribute in supporting the work we do to ensure that products, equipment, or services are compliant with environmental legislation, MOD policy and achieving sustainability goals across their life cycle.

The primary output for this role will be environmental-related and sustainability expertise and knowledge to deliver reports and advice in support of projects to our clients. Customer reports will cover a range of support, from advice on the procurement of new equipment, assessment of In-service equipment, support to QinetiQ trials at our Ranges and Environmental Case Development. The applicant should possess technical analytical skills and the ability to produce documentation and deliverables required. Applicants will have the ability to influence customers and improve environmental outcomes.

Our people make the critical difference to customers by providing unique approaches to problem solving.

What will I be doing?

As a graduate Environmental Management specialist you will be expected to learn how we operate and gain domain and project knowledge to best place you in an Environmental Management role.

You may develop as a specialist in a particular domain such as law and policy, Net Zero, energy management or research and gain specific knowledge on tools and techniques that will facilitate the final output of the projects. Working with others more experienced in the team, we will give you the opportunity to experience different types of engineering projects as you move across the business. You will work closely with safety engineers on similar projects. This will enable you to gain experience across QinetiQ and help us understand where your interests may lay as a specialist.

Academic Requirements

You will need to have obtained or be studying towards at least a 2:2 in a degree with a key focus on any of the disciplines listed below, or adjacent degrees:

• Environmental Science,
• Environmental Law and Policy,
• Conservation Management,
• Marine Sciences,
• Environmental Management
• Geography
• Environmental Sustainability
  
  

Additional Requirements

• Have a strong interest and/or experience within Environmental management, such as, conservation, environmental risks, environmental impact assessments, sustainability or net zero.
• Systems engineering knowledge would be beneficial but not mandatory.
• Please be aware that many roles within QinetiQ will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.
• You must be prepared to go through the Government Vetting process. For further details please refer to, https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/united-kingdom-security-vetting
  
  

Location(s):

• Bristol
• Farnborough
  
  

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Why join QinetiQ?

As a global company of over 6,000 dedicated people providing technological and scientific expertise, we are excited to recruit the most talented and enthusiastic people to become key parts of our business. Our Early Careers programmes give you the opportunity to be at the heart of impactful projects.

Diversity and inclusion

In our unique working environment, teams from different backgrounds collaborate widely on some of the world’s most complex defence and security challenges. Whatever part you play, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies. It’s a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Together, we’ll explore new ways of protecting the world around us.

Your wellbeing

Looking after the health and wellbeing of our employees are our top priority. We offer a host of services designed to support your wellbeing. They range from our Thrive app and Employee Assistance Programme to Mental Health First Aiders. The wellbeing of our employees is critical to our collective and individual success.

Rewards And Benefits

We offer global career progression and the opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting projects along with a wide range of rewards and recognition. Our highly competitive salaries come with a raft of benefits, from a performance-based Employee Incentive Scheme to Thank Q, our global recognition scheme. There’s also a Share Incentive Plan, Life Assurance and Benefits+, our flexible benefits package. It’s all designed to make life easier for you.

About QinetiQ

Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend.

With a focus on protecting the world around us, we have a target to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 and we are developing a global plan for net zero by March 2022. Being a responsible and sustainable business is at the heart of our identity.

Come and find out how you can play your part.