Graduate Consultant - Carbon Advisory Team - (2026 Intake)

Job Description

Join Wood! It’s a future for all of us. We aspire to shape a better tomorrow by unlocking solutions that address the biggest challenges facing our clients and our society.

Wood is recruiting several Graduate Consultants to join our Carbon Advisory Team in our Reading office. As a Wood Graduate you will join a culture of innovation, pushing the boundaries of what is possible, to seek the best solutions for our clients.

The Role

Wood is deeply committed to the development of their people and recognises the importance of growing a talented team of professionals with expertise in process engineering and sustainable development. This commitment ensures the future success of the organisation and the energy and materials sectors we support.

• Technical challenge – develop your core and specialised skills to a world-leading standard.
• Excellence - Work at a centre of technical excellence for an international company which leads and supports projects executed across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
• Recognition/prestige - Wood is globally regarded as a leading premium engineering and design firm. Ranked Number 1 International design firm by Engineering News-Record (2019).

What We Offer Within Our Graduate Programme:

• Variety in projects and studies, requiring highly adaptable and naturally curious/inquisitive individuals.
• Exposure to the wider sustainable development aspects of process design work.
• Technical and personal development; access to a wealth of resources and opportunities.
• If appropriate support with an Accredited training scheme – including the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE).
• Support throughout your career; an assigned buddy and mentor (Chartered Engineer) and departmental manager to ensure personal and professional development.
• Rotations across relevant business areas to enhance your knowledge and experience to become a well-rounded consultant.
• Meaningful and interesting studies and projects, delivered to leaders of industry across the different Energy and Materials market sectors.
• Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion; actively committed to diversity and inclusion across our business.
• 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, and more adaptable to suit your lifestyle.
• Early Careers Network (ECN); join your peers within our ECN and support and share ideas with other recent graduates.
• Global connections: join experts around the world who are at the leading edge of the decarbonisation agenda, shaping the standards of our profession.

Responsibilities

As a Graduate Carbon Advisory Consultant, you will have exposure to different parts of the business, gaining vital skills. Your work will assist clients to:

• 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.
• 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.

Application Process and Deadlines

• Upload your CV and enter your details to our recruitment system.
• Closing date for all applications will be 31st January.
• We will review applications in February.
• Screening calls will take place throughout February/March for qualified candidates.
• Shortlisted candidates will receive invitations to assessment centres in March.
• Assessment centres will take place in March/April depending on location and discipline.

Qualifications

• 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 the ability to systematically break a complex task into more manageable parts.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• High-quality report writing and presentation skills.
• Good organisational skills
• Keen to learn and share learning with others.
• Good at working in teams and flexible in thinking and in work methods.

About Us

Wood is a global leader in consulting and engineering, helping to unlock solutions to critical challenges in energy and materials markets. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in 60 countries, employing around 35,000 people.

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.