Graduate scheme
Overview
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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.
We are looking for a Graduate Utilities Consultant to join our highly successful Utilities team in Bristol, as part of our 2026 Graduate Programme, where you will help deliver sustainable projects for our communities, planet, and society.
As a Stantec graduate, you will collaborate with your team and wider cohort, developing your expertise within an exciting and creative interdisciplinary environment. You will benefit from strong support from both office and technical colleagues, along with significant guidance from senior staff within our open and collaborative culture.
Working within a project team comprising project managers, architects, and engineers, you will help determine how and where utility services are incorporated into developments and how they will meet the challenges of increasing electrical demand to support net-zero strategies and electric vehicle charging, against a backdrop of a constrained national grid.
Key Work Stages
- Due diligence
- Master planning
- Pre- and post-planning
Your Role
- Obtain and review asset records to identify development risks and constraints, showing where utility infrastructure is located in and around proposed development sites.
- Produce drawings showing utility infrastructure.
- Support senior staff and the wider team in procuring quotes from utility providers for new connections, diversionary works, and disconnections.
- Simultaneously manage multiple projects and follow up with utilities to ensure project milestones are met.
- Undertake load calculations (electricity, gas, clean/foul water) for submission of pre-planning enquiries.
- Review “heat maps” to identify high-level information about available capacity within electricity networks.
- Liaise with utility companies to determine strategies for bringing power, gas, water, and telecommunications into a development.
- Assist in producing detailed, accurate technical reports, drawings, and specifications.
About You
We value your potential over past experience. Along with a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject and knowledge of CAD and/or GIS, we would love to receive your application if you are:
- An Adapter: Able to remain calm in new and changing situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.
- A Perseverer: Composed in the face of setbacks, approaching challenges with confidence and determination.
- A Collaborator: Effective working with a wide range of people, considering others’ perspectives to shape better outcomes.
- A Problem-Solver: Keen to share insights based on what you observe, unafraid to challenge conventional thinking.
Working Pattern
Please note: graduates are asked to attend the office a minimum of four days per week to ensure sufficient time with the team and appropriate 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.
- A permanent employment contract, demonstrating our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec.
- A professional progression plan, supporting you to attain professional status.
- A supportive and collaborative team environment, Early Careers peer group, and wider Employee Resource Group network.
About Stantec
The Stantec community unites more than 32,000 employees working in over 450 locations across six 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 address today’s challenges while keeping a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, considering how to deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy, and meet the needs of future communities.
Equal Opportunity
Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants and prohibits 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.
Accessibility
We want you to perform at 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, we are committed to discussing how we can support you.
More Details
Locations
Bristol
