Graduate Sustainability Consultant positions available in 2011
Start your career at Arup, a top-listed engineering firm in the Building Design & Construction Magazine’s “Best AEC Firms to Work For” . . . FROM THE START, a newly-graduated engineer receives: • Substantial Engineering Work Assignments • A Training Plan for Accelerated Professional Growth • Work Opportunities That Acknowledge Ability, Not Seat-Time • Full Membership in a Global Network of Experts
As part of our global engineering and design firm, you’ll have the chance to engage in a fulfilling career and work with some of the most highly respected engineers and specialists in the world. You’ll also get the opportunity to work on exciting and significant projects and deliver quality work that has a positive and lasting influence on the community and the environment. Perhaps that’s why 90% of staff know that their own work has a positive impact on the success of the firm, why 70% of our projects are repeat business (often with world-class architects) and why Arup consistently remains in the Engineering News Record Rankings of the “Top 25 International Design Firms to Work For”.
We look for talented individuals who exhibit exceptional technical skill and also have personal characteristics that will help to propagate the long term Arup values of: • Quality of Work • Holistic Approach • Humane Organization • Straight and Honorable Dealings • Social Usefulness • Reasonable Prosperity of Members As a Graduate Sustainability Consultant, you will learn and apply the following: • Develop strategies for expanding integrated approaches to sustainable development for internal and external clients • Participate as a team member in carrying out specific global and local projects such as master plans, sustainable building projects, capital investment strategies, etc. • Preparing reports as requested • Working on defined tasks under supervision. These may include life cycle analysis, energy modeling, presentation production, educational development, technology or best practices research, design development and report production for a wide variety of internal and external clients. • Based upon the Intern's career objectives, received structured exposure to relevant elements of Arup's practice.
Requirements
Required:
• Bachelor's Degree in Finance/Environmental, Engineering/Energy or Engineering/Architecture • Good communication skills essential for team-based working • Excellent planning and organization skills required for our fast-paced environment • Strong self-motivation, be proactive and willing to take on new challenges • Proven ability to write clearly and communicate with clients • Interest in a long term career in the built environment field • LEED accreditation is a plus.
To understand why 93% of our staff say they are proud to work for Arup, one only needs to look at the talents and qualities that we seek out and then intentionally grow. Through a two-year skill-building period of on-the-job training in engineering analysis, supervised design of parts of real projects, responsibility for production of selected drawings and report content, in-house courses in multi-disciplinary design, and project site visits, the graduate engineer quickly becomes an essential part of the delivery team.
