Graduate Consents Consultant

Meeting the challenges of the energy transition and strengthening our sovereignty are among the key priorities of the 21st century.

At the heart of these challenges, Assystem supports its clients in delivering their most strategic projects. To achieve this, our 8,000 Switchers leverage their expertise in engineering, project management, and digital solutions.

Operating in 13 countries (Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and North America), we contribute to the development of new nuclear power generation capacities, the operational maintenance of existing facilities, and the design and delivery of critical infrastructure, particularly in the defence sector.

Your Future Team

Are you interested in how major projects secure the permissions and approvals they need to move from an idea into delivery?

Join our two-year Graduate Programme and begin your career with the Consents team within our Project Management & Consulting business. You’ll work alongside experienced consultants supporting major energy and infrastructure projects across rail, highways, utilities, water, and aviation.

Our team helps projects understand what permissions are required, develop practical consenting strategies, and coordinate applications, approvals, and commitments throughout the project lifecycle. This can include Development Consent Orders, planning applications, Transport and Works Act Orders, environmental permits, marine licences, and other project-specific approvals. Assystem’s wider consents service operates from pre-application strategy and stakeholder engagement through determination, delivery, and post-consent compliance.

You’ll be supported as you develop your understanding of the UK planning and consenting system, build your confidence and learn how good consent management helps projects manage risk, remain compliant, and stay on programme.

Your Responsibilities

From day one, you’ll contribute to live energy and infrastructure projects, helping multidisciplinary teams identify, secure, and manage the permissions needed for successful delivery.

You’ll work with project information, technical evidence, and consent requirements while learning how legislation, stakeholder engagement, and project delivery come together.

Your main responsibilities include:

• Supporting the identification, coordination, and delivery of project consents and approvals.
• Assisting with site appraisals, consent applications, reports, and supporting documentation.
• Helping maintain consent, commitment, and requirement registers, ensuring information remains accurate and up to date.
• Monitoring applications, approvals, and actions, and providing clear progress updates to project teams.
• Supporting post-consent activities, including the discharge of requirements, conditions, and certification processes.
• Working with planners, environmental specialists, engineers, project managers, and other technical disciplines.
• Supporting engagement with clients, local authorities, regulators, statutory bodies, and delivery partners.
• Helping identify consenting risks, potential delays, or areas of non-compliance and escalating them appropriately.

Your Strengths and Requirements for Success

We’re looking for graduates who:

• Have recently completed, or expect to complete, a degree in Town Planning, Environmental Planning, Environmental Management, Infrastructure Planning, Geography, Law, Engineering, Archaeology, Construction Management, or a closely related discipline before joining the Graduate Programme.
• Have a genuine interest in how major energy and infrastructure projects are planned, approved, and delivered.
• Are interested in developing an understanding of planning, consenting, environmental, and infrastructure legislation.
• Enjoy researching information, understanding requirements, and solving practical problems.
• Can produce clear, accurate, and professionally presented written work.
• Have strong organisational skills and can track different activities, actions, and deadlines.
• Communicate confidently and enjoy working with colleagues, clients, and stakeholders.
• Are proactive, detail-focused, and willing to ask questions and learn from experienced consultants.
• Enjoy working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams.

An interest in working towards membership of a relevant professional body, such as RTPI, IEMA, RICS, or CIWEM, would also be beneficial.

Eligibility Requirements

To join our Graduate Scheme, you must be a UK sole national and a UK resident, as this is required for the type of work we do. You’ll also need to be able to obtain a minimum of Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance, with some roles requiring higher levels of clearance.

As part of the programme, you should also be willing to relocate or travel within the UK, and we’ll provide relocation support where needed.

Recruitment Process

After submitting your application, you’ll receive confirmation of next steps. If successful at screening, one of our recruitment team will call you to discuss:

• Your application and eligibility
• Your passion for energy transformation
• Your interest in and knowledge of your chosen discipline

Successful applicants will then be invited to attend an in-person assessment centre at one of our UK offices.

We are committed to equal treatment of candidates and promote, as well as foster all forms of diversity within our company. We believe that bringing together people with different backgrounds and perspectives is essential for creating innovative and impactful solutions. Skills, talent, and our people’s ability to dare are the only things that matter! Bring your unique contributions and help us shape the future.