Graduate Air Quality Consultant - Bristol - 2025

We are looking for a Graduate Air Quality Scientist to join an established and successful Air Quality team, where you'll get involved with Air Quality assessments and low emission strategies, dust, odour assessments, emissions inventories and local air quality management, as well as discovering how Air Quality fits into our broader consultancy offering.

Our UK Air Quality Team continues to be engaged in a wide range of technical work and to help continue the successful growth of the team and wider Stantec UK business. The Air Quality team undertakes a wide range of studies across the UK throughout the development control process (i.e. in support of site promotion, input to the planning application, condition discharge) for all scales and types of development. We also undertake detailed studies in support of Major Infrastructure (Highways etc) and Environmental Permit applications in the power, water, industry, minerals and waste sectors. In the Built Environment sector, the Air Quality Team supports our clients in delivering sustainable and desirable developments through promoting Stantec's ethos of 'designing with communities in mind' and 'Places first' by providing insight at the initial conceptual stage of developments, to ensure air quality positive design measures are embedded to minimise generation and exposure to air pollution
(outdoor and indoor). Notable projects have included major schemes such as the M3J9 Improvements, Wokingham Local Plan Update and the Slough Trading Estate Simplified Planning Zone and large-scale regeneration projects such as Ebbsfleet Central.

You would join the existing Stantec UK Air Quality team in either our Bristol and London offices alongside colleagues in the wider Environmental Services team and Stantec's Engineering, Buildings, Infrastructure, Transportation and Planning Teams. You will assist to undertake air quality impact assessments, involving road traffic, combustion and possibly odour emissions, be familiar with the use of air quality dispersion modelling software (e.g. Aermod/ADMS/ADMS-Roads) and be providing input to report writing and contributing to Environmental Statement preparation.

You will also assist with project delivery and providing input to enhancing assessments to reflect emerging requirements in relation to both human and ecological receptors to provide a more holistic approach to air quality.

You will assist with:

• Dispersion modelling of road traffic and industrial pollution sources.


• Writing air quality reports to accompany planning applications and input to Environment Impact Assessments


• Initial site appraisals and consultation


• Application of GIS for effective and accurate model input and communication of results


• Input to proposals for air quality projects


• Liaison with clients and key stakeholders


• Air quality monitoring studies


• Construction phase dust assessments


Take a look at our Air Quality service line:- air-quality-services-9532.pdf (stantec.com), and review the career journey of our Stantec graduates here:- Stantec | Career Stories, Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment, supporting inclusion & diversity . We prohibit discrimination on the grounds of demographic background in any condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations, and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.

We want to ensure all our applicants have the same opportunity for success. Please inform us of any support/reasonable adjustment you may need as a result of a disability, long-term health condition, neurodiversity or other personal circumstances, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability during the recruitment process (e.g. extra assessment time, special access request etc). Please contact Careers.UK&I@stantec.com and a member of our team will be happy to assist.

At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with a minimum of a Bachelor's degree in a relevant Environmental discipline, and a keen interest in the Infrastructure sector, you will be:-

• A Curious Mind: You'll be eager to learn and progress your technical knowledge, with a keen interest in your professional development.


• A Problem-Solver: You'll love to give your thoughts based on what you see, being unafraid to challenge conventional thinking.


• An Adapter: Able to remain calm in new situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.


• An Innovator: You'll love thinking of new ideas as well as spotting and improving current ways of working.


• A Striver: Exhibiting ownership, consistently delivering on tasks and objectives. You'll be motivated and proactive in your tasks, having the desire to make a real difference.


• A Multi-Tasker: Thinking about more than one task at a time, while still having an eye for detail.


Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office 4 days per week, to ensure that you receive sufficient time with your team and receive the appropriate level of support.

The Stantec community unites more than 31,000 employees, working in over 450 locations across 6 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 deal with today's challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.


• A competitive salary


• Private medical insurance


• A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection and life assurance


• Permanent employment contract to demonstrate our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec


• Professional progression plan, supporting you to gain professional chartership


• A supportive and collaborative team environment and Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network (see more on our ERGs here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups)