Environmental Practitioner Degree Apprentice

Summary

Are you ready to gain hands-on experience while earning a salary and studying for a fully funded degree? We are offering an exciting opportunity to join our team as an Environmental Practitioner, where you’ll work alongside industry experts, develop essential skills, and build a rewarding career in construction.

Wage

£21,500 a year

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Training course

Environmental practitioner (Degree) (level 6)

Hours

Monday - Friday, 07:30 - 17:30 with half an hour unpaid lunch break.

47 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Tuesday 2 September 2025

Duration

4 years 5 months

Positions available

1

Work

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

Accountable for the Health and Safety of themselves
Ensure that company Environmental policies and procedures are adhered to and fully implemented during the project life cycle
Monitor Environmental performance and ensure site inspections/audits are conducted and any actions promptly closed out
Ensure all Environmental communications (TBT, Briefings, Stand downs) are effectively delivered by the Project and Site Team
Monitor the completion of all project Environmental Files, ensuring all required documentation is in place
Responsible for supporting and assisting with Environmental incident investigations and reporting
Provide subject matter expertise in identifying environmental risk and mitigation, promoting best practice solutions
Technical support in measuring project carbon and identification of carbon reduction opportunities and best practice
Monitor and record site-level environmental initiatives, assisting the Senior Environmental Advisor
Work well within a high performing team and be able to communicate at all levels of the business
Supporting the process of obtaining and closing down of any necessary environmental consents, licences or exemptions
Work well under pressure and manage both internal and client deadlines
An awareness of compliance with environmental legislation and of ISO14001 Environmental Management Systems and its implementation

Where you'll work

Envolve Infrastructure
Unit B
St Brendans Court
Bristol
BS11 9FB

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

College or training organisation

UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL

Your training course

Environmental practitioner (Degree) (level 6)

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What you'll learn

Course contents

Apply complex environmental principles and methods to projects that integrate with the built or natural environment.
Design, develop or manage safe and sustainable environmental solutions, be able to identify challenges these solutions pose, and assess the opportunities to deliver practical solutions that integrate with the built or natural environment.
Balance views of potentially conflicting drivers related to environmental, social and financial constraints, and demonstrate critical analysis in the design, development or management of environmental projects.
Apply and comply with policies and regulations, including those relating to the environment, health and safety, legal, planning and equality and diversity, and with their organisation’s formal procedures and practices.
Determine and manage the collection, analysis, and evaluation of data used in the development or delivery of environmental solutions drawing appropriate conclusions and making practical recommendations.
Apply, analyse and evaluate a broad range of environmental methods (utilising appropriate software and digital solutions), to inform and enable decision making within the development or delivery of environmental solutions. This includes assessing data suitability, validity, quality, and accuracy relative to its intended application.
Effectively and safely manage tasks or projects, within environmental, legal, contractual and statutory requirements, to agreed time and resource budgets, and to agreed quality standards, through the application of appropriate project management tools and techniques.
Deliver high quality accurate, well-structured documents and recommendations for the work for which they are responsible and are appropriate to those for whom they are intended.
Develop and maintain productive working relationships with stakeholders and colleagues and support and guide team members to enable them to achieve the team’s objectives as well as their own. Actively seek and provide feedback, support decision making processes, and manage any conflicts that may arise in their work with integrity, fairness and consistency in decision making.
Communicate effectively orally and in writing in both formal and informal contexts, and with a variety of stakeholders. Listen actively to ensure the views of others are considered appropriately.
Manage their own work independently within the limits of their ability, authority and responsibility, making use of support and specialist expertise when appropriate. Seek feedback on their performance, looking for ways to improve it.
Develop their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing their CPD records and develop an extended network to support their professional development and maintain the required standard of, ethical behaviours and codes of conduct, associated with the environmental profession.
Apply complex environmental principles and methods to projects that integrate with the built or natural environment.
Design, develop or manage safe and sustainable environmental solutions, be able to identify challenges these solutions pose, and assess the opportunities to deliver practical solutions that integrate with the built or natural environment.
Balance views of potentially conflicting drivers related to environmental, social and financial constraints, and demonstrate critical analysis in the design, development or management of environmental projects.
Apply and comply with policies and regulations, including those relating to the environment, health and safety, legal, planning and equality and diversity, and with their organisation’s formal procedures and practices.
Determine and manage the collection, analysis, and evaluation of data used in the development or delivery of environmental solutions drawing appropriate conclusions and making practical recommendations.
Apply, analyse and evaluate a broad range of environmental methods (utilising appropriate software and digital solutions), to inform and enable decision making within the development or delivery of environmental solutions. This includes assessing data suitability, validity, quality, and accuracy relative to its intended application.
Effectively and safely manage tasks or projects, within environmental, legal, contractual and statutory requirements, to agreed time and resource budgets, and to agreed quality standards, through the application of appropriate project management tools and techniques.
Deliver high quality accurate, well-structured documents and recommendations for the work for which they are responsible and are appropriate to those for whom they are intended.
Develop and maintain productive working relationships with stakeholders and colleagues and support and guide team members to enable them to achieve the team’s objectives as well as their own. Actively seek and provide feedback, support decision making processes, and manage any conflicts that may arise in their work with integrity, fairness and consistency in decision making.
Communicate effectively orally and in writing in both formal and informal contexts, and with a variety of stakeholders. Listen actively to ensure the views of others are considered appropriately.
Manage their own work independently within the limits of their ability, authority and responsibility, making use of support and specialist expertise when appropriate. Seek feedback on their performance, looking for ways to improve it.
Develop their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing their CPD records and develop an extended network to support their professional development and maintain the required standard of, ethical behaviours and codes of conduct, associated with the environmental profession.

Your training plan

On successful completion of the Environmental Practitioner degree apprenticeship, you'll achieve a BSc(Hons) Environment and Sustainability degree

Requirements

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Problem solving skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative

About this company

We build, maintain, and renew the infrastructures that keep our country running, and have done since 1984. Initially specialising in deep clean and wastewater pipelines, our expertise and collaborative approach organically developed the business into a strategic partner of choice, specialising in: Heavy civil engineering Clean & wastewater treatment Clean water pipelines Wastewater pipelines Renovation Trenchless technology Dam safety Reactive/emergency ‘on call’ services Highways Rail Power

Company benefits

Private Medical Insurance Business Mileage Reimbursed 4 x Death in Service Life Assurance Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays

After this apprenticeship

This apprenticeship offers an opportunity to achieve a degree while you work, enabling you to progress your career with your employer

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

ENVOLVE INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED

Catherine Turnbull

catherine.turnbull@envolve-infrastructure.co.uk

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000322715.

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Closes in 13 days (Tuesday 10 June 2025 at 11:59pm)

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