Hybrid Graduate Consultant – Carbon Advisory Team

at Wood

• Job title: Graduate Consultant – Carbon Advisory Team
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Entry level
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Reading, United Kingdom

About the role

• Graduate Consultant assisting clients in achieving climate change ambitions and quantifying carbon emissions in decarbonisation projects. Exposure to various business areas and skill development.

Responsibilities

• As a Graduate Carbon Advisory Consultant, you will have exposure to different parts of the business gaining vital skills. In addition, your work will be aimed at assisting clients.
• Achieve their climate change ambitions.
• Quantify Scope 1, 2 & 3 carbon emissions and advise on supply and demand side reduction and offsetting techniques and technologies.
• Undertake product lifecycle analysis to determine a verifiable product carbon intensity/ footprint.
• Support decision-making for CO2 emission reduction from a cost-of-carbon-abated perspective.
• Use multi-factor sustainable development indices to magnify the benefits of de-carbonisation.
• Gain understanding of current and future carbon pricing and funding opportunities.
• Verify, validate, and certify emission inventories and LCAs.
• Understand synergistic environmental improvement opportunities that decarbonisation brings, aiding ESG credentials and performance enhancement and increasing positive stakeholder perception.
• Transition to net-zero.
• Build decarbonization roadmaps with journey times, drivers and identified milestones.
• Develop climate governance and management frameworks to meet financial institution and investor expectations.
• Evaluate transition risk and opportunities and guide scenario assessment.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate climate related physical risks by building resilience into plant design.
• Adapting existing facilities and designing ambitious new projects, to produce the next generation of lower carbon fuels and chemicals.
• From a Wood perspective we expect you to:
• Represent the company at external events and conferences.
• Prepare technical study reports / presentations and associated deliverables.
• Support the preparation of technical / commercial study proposals.
• Be fully aware of the business environment, market and on-going innovation in technology and research in climate-related subjects and issues.

Requirements

• University Degree in Process Engineering, Engineering Science, or a Sustainable Development-related discipline or climate related subject
• Strong Microsoft Office skills particularly Excel
• Analytical skills and can systematically break a complex task into more manageable parts and identify the critical components of a problem.
• A strong communicator with strong verbal and written communication skills
• High-quality report writing and presentation skills.
• Good organisational skills
• Keen to learn and keen to share learning with others.
• Good at working in teams and flexible in thinking and in work methods.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with incremental increases as you progress within the graduate program.
• Flexible benefits package; inclusive of 33 days annual leave (including public holidays), generous contributory pension scheme, private medical cover, 4x base salary life insurance; all of these and more that can be adapted to suit your own lifestyle.
• Early Careers Network (ECN); join your peers within our ECN and have the opportunity to support and share ideas with other recent graduates across our business units.
• Global connections: join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of the decarbonisation agenda, shaping the standards of our profession.