Job Description
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Launch your career and find your professional home at Ramboll. Be part of a welcoming and engaging environment, where you can develop and explore your professional interests and passions, and curiosity in ways that make the most of all the opportunities ahead of you.
At Ramboll, we offer a unique work environment. Our culture is built on openness, understanding, and respect, allowing you to shape your role to match your working style, aspirations, and personal life. Our Nordic heritage drives our commitment to improving conditions for people and nature through our projects. As a foundation-owned multinational company, the profit we make is reinvested into the company. This ensures the continued development of employees or is used to fund research, charity, and humanitarian projects. Our commitment to be 'The Partner for Sustainable Change' ensures your work makes a meaningful impact on people, communities, and the environment.
Our Early Careers Programme – EarlyCareers@Ramboll
We have designed a training program that will boost your personal, commercial and technical development to kick-start your career with Ramboll. You will also be paired with a mentor and have access to a clear framework to work towards your professional development.
The Early Careers Challenge is one of the highlights of the graduate training. This is a fun and exciting event where you get to travel around the UK and work on a project that will provide you with an insight into the concept of design. You also get the opportunity to collaborate and network with amazing people and peers.
About The Opportunity
We invite you to bring your strong desire to make meaningful, positive change and your passion for ecotoxicology into play in our Ecosystems Solutions Service Line. The team needs to stretch between laboratory and field-based knowledge, prospective and retrospective risk assessment, all types of environmental compartments, contaminants and species. We are often pioneering in new areas and regulatory contexts requiring thought leadership in method development including ecological risk assessment of contaminated sites and pollution incidents blended with advice on optimising environmental value in sustainable remediation and compensatory actions. We work closely with the Product Safety and Stewardship team (Health Science) on REACH authorisation providing advice on environmental fate, ecotoxicology, PBT and socio-economic analysis. The team also leads on ecosystem services and natural capital assessment, working with environmental economists, on valuing the environment for net gain, risk management, and cost-benefit analysis.
Key tasks and responsibilities:
- Assist with evaluating ecological risks of pollution from operational sites, dealing with contamination prior to infrastructure development (including offshore), or as part of corporate biodiversity strategy (disclosure and reporting requirements)
- Degree, preferably Master’s degree or PhD, in biology, ecotoxicology or environmental pollution
- Numerically competent - ability to complete accurate technical research and data gathering tasks under supervision and assists in technical analysis and data review. Ability to use software packages, including MS Word, MS Excel and MS Outlook. Use of statistical software an advantage.
- Able to articulate results of own work to colleagues and line manager
The key deliverables for this role over the first 12-24 Months will be:
- Input to ecological risk assessment reports including presenting research and analysis
- Input to environmental damage assessment reports and natural capital assessment
- Input to corporate biodiversity strategy reporting
Your Skills And Experience
For this role, we believe your starting point is:
- A Bachelors or Masters degree in one of the following: biology, ecotoxicology or environmental pollution
- Have experience with IT packages including Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook;
- Be numerically competent;
- Possess excellent English communication skills, both oral and written;
- Have excellent report writing skills
We don’t expect you to know everything, but that you show curiosity, take responsibility, and want to deliver high-quality work. Ramboll strives to deliver excellent cross-functional solutions in a professional and well-coordinated manner to our clients. Therefore, we believe you have good communication and collaboration skills.
Benefits you will enjoy:
- Hybrid & Flexible Working
- 27 days holiday per year + 8 days bank holiday
- Professional subscription + support on becoming chartered
- Matched pension scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- A great list of flexible benefits you can choose from including discounted taste card subscription, cycle to work scheme, gym flex and many more!
Selection Process:
We aim to have applications shortlisted by the beginning of March and we will invite successful candidates to an assessment centre at the beginning of April in our Birmingham office.
Work at the heart of sustainable change with Ramboll in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Ramboll is a global architecture, engineering, and consultancy company. As a foundation-owned people company, founded in Denmark, we believe that the purpose of sustainable change is to create a thriving world for both nature and people. So, that’s where we start – and how we work. Our history is rooted in a clear vision of how a responsible company should act and being open and curious is a cornerstone of our culture. Ramboll in the United Kingdom and Ireland has a proven track record of sustainable and responsible business and is a top ten engineering and environmental and sustainability consultancy in the UK, with more than 1,500 employees across 16 offices. Ramboll experts deliver innovative solutions across Buildings, Transport, Environment & Health, and Energy. In 2024, Ramboll was included in the Sunday Times’ list of Best Places to Work.
How To Apply
Apply online. Attach your CV and Cover Letter. In a separate document, please address the following questions:
- What are the main environmental challenges where you live, why they are important to you, and how you would help solve them? (max. 500 words)
- What are your top 3 location preferences if you were offered a role with Ramboll? We are aiming to recruit into our Birmingham, Edinburgh, London, Leeds, Southampton or Manchester offices but it would be helpful to know other locations that you could consider in addition to this.
Please note that incomplete applications will not be considered.
Based on the volume of applications received we reserve the right to close applications early.
We look forward to receiving your application.
Deadline for applications: 19th February 2025.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
Equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of what we do. At Ramboll, we believe that diversity is a strength and that different experiences and perspectives are essential to creating truly sustainable societies. We are committed to providing an inclusive and supportive work environment where everyone is able to flourish and reach their potential. We also know how important it is to achieve the right balance of where, when, and how much you work. As a company, Ramboll recognises the importance of having a good work/life balance, both in terms of individual well-being and its positive impact with respect to the engagement and retention of our employees. We aim to support all employees to achieve a work/life balance which enables them to work in a supported manner while having the time to achieve personal aspects of their life outside of work. We invite applications from candidates of all backgrounds and characteristics. As a Disability Confident Committed employer, Ramboll ensures opportunities are accessible to candidates with disabilities. Please let us know if there are any changes we could make to the application process to make it more comfortable for you. You can contact us at job.advert.accessibility@ramboll.com with such requests.
