Environmental Practitioner Degree Level Apprenticeship

Summary

Can you imagine contributing to the design, construction and maintenance of everything around us, and on some of the worlds most high profile projects? Using programmes such as computer aided design and building information management, you’ll learn engineering principles and techniques to help design and deliver infrastructure and buildings.

Annual wage

£20,700 a year

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Following a successful probationary period, you will receive bi-annual salary reviews for the entire duration of your apprenticeship As an employee owned business all staff are eligible for a yearly bonus. We also operate a merit bonus scheme

Training course

Environmental practitioner (Degree) (level 6)

Hours

Monday - Friday 9.00am-5.30pm

37 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 8 September

Duration

5 years 6 months

Positions available

1

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Once confined to conservation, waste management or pollution prevention, the occupation has become more mainstream, infiltrating into many areas of the business world.

Environmental Practitioners are employed in a wide variety of job roles across many sectors including:

The voluntary and charity sectors
Public sector including regulatory bodies, local and national authorities
Educational institutions and research agencies
Private sector companies; ranging from multinational companies to smaller business requiring environmental practitioners

Practitioners will also be aware and responsible for:

Initiation, coordination, and management of technical input from a wide range of specialists
Ensuring projects and programmes are planned and delivered effectively and in a timely manner
The compliance and review of these projects with relevant regulatory requirements
Line management or development responsibilities for other team members, such as Environmental Technicians
Their own capability and capacity and seek help from others such as specialist technical experts to support them in their role
Operating effectively within their organisational, financial, and resource constraints and policies, and being compliant with statutory safety and employment regulations
Maintaining high levels of professional conduct, ethical behaviour and integrity at all times

Where you’ll work

Mott Macdonald House

8-10 Sydenham Road

Croydon

Surrey

CR0 2EE

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

KINGSTON UNIVERSITY

Your training course

Environmental practitioner (Degree) (level 6)

Equal to degree

Course contents

Apply complex environmental principles and methods to projects that integrate with the built or natural environment.

Design, develop or manage safe and sustainable environmental solutions, be able to identify challenges these solutions pose, and assess the opportunities to deliver practical solutions that integrate with the built or natural environment.

Balance views of potentially conflicting drivers related to environmental, social and financial constraints, and demonstrate critical analysis in the design, development or management of environmental projects.

Apply and comply with policies and regulations, including those relating to the environment, health and safety, legal, planning and equality and diversity, and with their organisation’s formal procedures and practices.

Determine and manage the collection, analysis, and evaluation of data used in the development or delivery of environmental solutions drawing appropriate conclusions and making practical recommendations.

Apply, analyse and evaluate a broad range of environmental methods (utilising appropriate software and digital solutions), to inform and enable decision making within the development or delivery of environmental solutions. This includes assessing data suitability, validity, quality, and accuracy relative to its intended application.

Effectively and safely manage tasks or projects, within environmental, legal, contractual and statutory requirements, to agreed time and resource budgets, and to agreed quality standards, through the application of appropriate project management tools and techniques.

Deliver high quality accurate, well-structured documents and recommendations for the work for which they are responsible and are appropriate to those for whom they are intended.

Develop and maintain productive working relationships with stakeholders and colleagues and support and guide team members to enable them to achieve the team’s objectives as well as their own. Actively seek and provide feedback, support decision making processes, and manage any conflicts that may arise in their work with integrity, fairness and consistency in decision making.

Communicate effectively orally and in writing in both formal and informal contexts, and with a variety of stakeholders. Listen actively to ensure the views of others are considered appropriately.

Manage their own work independently within the limits of their ability, authority and responsibility, making use of support and specialist expertise when appropriate. Seek feedback on their performance, looking for ways to improve it.

Develop their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing their CPD records and develop an extended network to support their professional development and maintain the required standard of, ethical behaviours and codes of conduct, associated with the environmental profession.

Your training plan

You will attend university one day a week to work towards your environmental practitioner degree qualification.

You will have the full support of your wider team, as well as a line manager, mentor and buddy, and a dedicated learning & development team.

You will join our 2 year 'accelerate your future' internal training scheme as well as company provided training sessions.

At the end you will recieve;

BSc or BA (Hons) Environmental Sciences degree (or equivalent degree title)
Functional skills level 2 in English for those without Grade 4/C

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

Maths (grade 4 / C or equivalent)
Maths (grade A*-C)
Science (grade A*-C)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Problem solving skills
Number skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative
Non judgemental
Patience

About this company

We’re a management, engineering and development consultancy which works on projects across the world. By challenging norms, we like to solve humanity’s most difficult problems. We’re committed to making a positive contribution to the wellbeing of our staff as well as the environment, and communities in which we operate.

https://www.mottmac.com/careers/uk-apprenticeships (opens in new tab)

Disability Confident

A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.

You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.

After this apprenticeship

Successful apprentices can look forward to potential employment within the industry.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

MOTT MACDONALD LIMITED

Andrew Challis

earlycareers.recruitment@mottmac.com

02087742173

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000281511.

Apply now

Closes on Tuesday 31 December

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Company’s application instructions

You will complete our strength based assessment online and an application form. If successful you will have a face2face, or virtual, interview with your future team.

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