The Opportunity
With Every Community, Stantec Redefines What’s Possible.
Application Deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.
About The Role
As a graduate consultant, you will balance technical learning with practical project delivery to support major infrastructure programmes across the UK.
You will sit within our local Programme & Commercial Management team of specialists in either Edinburgh or Glasgow, fully supported by a wider national Energy Advisory Services team.
We operate as a fully integrated multidisciplinary business, bringing together programme management, commercial management, business transformation, digital advisory, engineering, and asset management expertise to deliver complex infrastructure programmes.
Your Core Responsibilities Will Include
- PMO Governance & Reporting: Assisting with governance, risk management, action tracking, performance monitoring, and compiling reporting metrics.
- Project Controls & Coordination: Supporting core programme and project management activities, including planning, scheduling, and project coordination.
- Data Analysis & Reporting: Analysing project data, identifying trends, and preparing clear reports, presentations, and client-facing documentation.
- Meeting & Stakeholder Support: Attending client and project meetings, documenting key decisions, tracking actions, and communicating technical info to varied stakeholders.
- Business Transformation: Supporting business transformation, process improvement, and organisational change initiatives for our clients.
- Digital & Information Management: Assisting with information management, digital delivery, and data-driven decision-making activities.
Your Impact
In this role, you will help shape the UK’s energy transition and major infrastructure resilience.
Supporting high-profile programmes across electricity transmission, distribution, and nuclear sectors, you will go beyond simple data analysis.
Working alongside multidisciplinary experts, your contribution to PMO governance, digital transformation, and asset management will directly enable clean growth, modernised networks, and lasting, sustainable legacies for the communities we serve.
About You
At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience.
Along with a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (all disciplines), Project Management, Business Management, Geography, or a related field with transferable skills, and a keen interest in the energy transition, you will also be:
An Adapter - You’re able to remain calm in new and changing situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.
A Perseverer - You stay composed in the face of setbacks, approaching challenges with confidence and determination.
An Eager Learner - You have a keen interest in major infrastructure and data-driven decision-making, using new knowledge to anticipate how situations unfold.
A Collaborator - You work effectively with diverse engineering, digital, and asset management specialists, considering others’ perspectives to shape better outcomes.
A Problem-Solver - You possess strong analytical skills, love to give your thoughts based on what you see and are unafraid to challenge conventional thinking.
Why Join Us? 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
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.
About Stantec
The Stantec community unites more than 34,000 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.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit 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.
Accessibility
If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.
At Stantec we want you to perform your best at every stage of the recruitment process and are committed to ensuring it is accessible to all.