Assistant Environmental Specialist

As an Assistant Environmental Specialist, you'll be working within the Environmental Team, supporting them in delivering environmental consultancy services across exciting projects. This role offers a wonderful opportunity for an early career Environmental Specialist to gain hands‑on experience, receive mentorship from experienced professionals, and develop a strong foundation in environmental management. Due to the exciting and rapid expansion of our internal environmental consultancy services, you'll be working on a range of projects across the UK. We're committed to creating a workplace where everyone is empowered to achieve their career goals, and our people are at the heart of our business, using their skills and creativity to provide solutions and services to our clients.

Your day to day will include:

• Supporting the production of technical environmental documents including Environmental Impact Assessments, Management Plans and Method Statements
• Aiding in obtaining and adhering to environmental licences, permits and consents
• Carrying out inspections and Environmental Clerk of Works duties
• Helping with client, stakeholder and technical meetings
• Assisting in the preparation of bids and fee proposals

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

Due to the nature of this role, you will also be required to complete a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (applicants with convictions will be treated on a case‑by‑case basis. We do not discriminate based on an applicant's conviction history or the details of any convictions disclosed to us). Some roles may also be subject to further pre‑employment checks.

Holding a degree (or working towards a degree) in an Environmental related discipline

• A graduate member of ISEP or equivalent
• Demonstrating a genuine interest in pursuing a career in environmental management and the construction industry, with clear motivation to learn and develop professionally
• Showing enthusiasm for learning new skills and knowledge, and the ability to adapt in response to feedback
• In possession of a Full driving licence

We're looking for an Assistant Environmental Specialist to join our team based in the North of England within the road, rail, water and property sectors. Kier Design are a highly regarded Tier 1 Contractor, with a 750 plus strong design consultancy team, recognised as a Top 30 employer on Glassdoor.

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