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Application Deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.

Your role:

We are looking for a Graduate Sustainable Value Consultant to be based in London , joining our 2026 Graduate Programme.

Would you like to help to deliver developments that truly deliver for communities, especially the most disadvantaged in society? At Stantec, we design with community in mind and are looking for a like-minded Health and Social Value graduate who can help us to deliver developments that truly provide for our communities.

Stantec’s multi-disciplinary Environmental Consulting team is looking forward to a very exciting period ahead as we grow our existing team. As a Stantec graduate, you will collaborate with your team and wider cohort, developing your town planning expertise within an exciting and creative interdisciplinary environment.

Our Health and Social Value services are growing rapidly across a broad range of sectors and we are looking to strengthen our team to support this growth. We are looking for someone enthusiastic to support a broad range of services including health impact assessment, social value, equalities impact assessment and inclusive design to some of the country’s largest development and infrastructure projects. This dynamic role offers the opportunity to help us to deliver and develop these services to best serve the communities that we work within and would suit one looking to progress their career in a key area of growth.

Our broad-based growth means we are supporting projects across multiple sectors including major development (new communities, regeneration, employment, etc.), energy and transport developments helping to secure and implement planning permissions. Our work currently includes establishing an internationally important low carbon smart campus at Gravity (generating 7,500 new jobs), new garden communities across the country, major regeneration projects to deliver tens of thousands of new homes, new highways schemes (such as Lower Thames Crossing, M3 junction 9 and various relief roads), a broad range of new energy projects (including Coire Glas hydropower, Ourack wind farm and substantial solar developments) and water infrastructure (new water assets, infrastructure and pipelines).

As you develop in the role, you will assist with:

• Advising clients on how we can best design with communities in mind

• Supporting the planning and delivery of development and infrastructure projects, as appropriate

• Delivery of health, social value, equalities and/or inclusive design services

• Planning and undertaking a range of impact assessments in accordance with best practice (e.g., health impact assessment, equality impact assessment, environmental impact assessment)

• Working with senior members of our team to develop client relationships

• Contributing to single- and multi-disciplinary proposals and bids

• Helping to develop and evolve our technical services

• Supporting the development of more junior members of the team

• Achieving successful commercial outcomes for work that you are delivering

This provides an unrivalled opportunity for excellent learning and development and the delivery of best in class services. Our combined strength and growth provides substantial potential for career development.

Take a look at our Social Value business line:- Social Value (stantec.com), and review the career journey of one of our grads:- Stantec | Career Stories

About you:

At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with your relevant Bachelor’s degree (e.g. public health, environmental, or planning related discipline) , we’d love to receive your application if you are:-

• The Planner: Organising and managing your own activities, dealing effectively with multiple priorities with a structured approach.

• The Adapter: Able to remain calm in new situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.

• The Thinker: Evaluating options by understanding context and risks, navigating ambiguity and putting forward your thoughts and ideas.

• The Striver: Exhibiting ownership, consistently delivering on tasks and objectives. You'll be motivated and proactive in your work, having the desire to make a real difference.

Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office 4 days per week, to ensure that you receive sufficient time with your team and receive the appropriate level of support.

What we can offer you:

• A competitive salary

• Private medical insurance

• A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection and life assurance

• Permanent employment contract to demonstrate our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec

• Professional progression plan, supporting you to gain professional chartership

A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups)

Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK for an indefinite period without limitation.

Please take a look at our Graduate FAQs ( Graduate Application FAQs ) if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your application!

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About Stantec

The Stantec community unites more than 34,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.

Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.

Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.

At Stantec we want you to perform your best at every stage of the recruitment process and are committed to ensuring it is accessible to all. If you need any support or require adjustments to be made then please contact careers.UK@stantec.comand we will talk to you about how we can support you.

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