Environmental Apprentice - Taylor Woodrow - Carlisle
TAYLOR WOODROW INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED
Carlisle (CA6 4DQ)
Closes in 9 days (Sunday 30 November 2025)
Posted on 18 November 2025
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Summary
You will be involved in varied areas of construction, mitigating environmental issues on-site. The apprenticeship will include block release to university to gain a degree in Environmental Management, professional membership qualifications and on-the-job training.
- Wage
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£20,800 a year
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Opportunity for pay progression bi-annually Pension scheme with employer contribution. Every day employee discounts
- Training course
- Environmental practitioner (Degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday from 8am to 5pm.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 5 January 2026
- Duration
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5 years
- Positions available
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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
- Daily monitoring for environmental permitting (water sampling, inspections, site checks and watercourse inspections)
- Admin, assistance with reporting and data entry (Word and Excel) - waste data reporting, carbon footprint collation (using Moata and internal project systems)
- Creating graphics and posters for the site (PowerPoint) to help us monitor our progress with company, client and project targets
Creating and assisting with the delivery of Toolbox talks - Ecological walkovers and checks, and assistance with BNG (Biodiversity Net Gain) related issues
- Supporting the engineering team with the collation of the Materials Management Plan (MMP) tracking and verification
Assistance with collating key project lessons learned
Where you'll work
Harker Grid Substation
Harker Road Ends
Carlisle
CA6 4DQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
COVENTRY UNIVERSITY
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.
Training schedule
Level 6 Environmental Practitioner Degree Apprenticeship
BSc Environmental Management.
Block Release at Coventry University.
More training information
Accomodation and travel will be organised for you when attending University
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
A Level in:
Other in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
You will be based on a construction site and PPE use will be required for site visits.
About this employer
Whether we are delivering small scale improvements or a major project, Taylor Woodrow’s success is founded on the teams that we build, the relationships we develop and the engineering solutions that we provide. We have a strong regional presence across the UK, where local people bring local solutions across a range of infrastructure and civil engineering projects as part of long-term frameworks. This is complimented by our ability to deliver major infrastructure projects requiring complex engineering solutions. Our projects support the UK’s energy transition, deliver improvements to the highways network and enhance rail infrastructure. The strategic infrastructure that we construct are the building blocks for growth and this includes a role in delivering the UK’s low carbon transport future through High Speed 2. We operate across all stages of the project lifecycle, with our Engineering Services team supporting clients through the development and design phase of infrastructure projects to foster the right solutions. Sustainability is at the heart of our approach and we are committed to respecting and protecting the environment in everything that we do. Taking the time to understand and make a positive difference to each community that we work within is an integral part of our work to ensure that our projects leave a lasting legacy. Taylor Woodrow is committed to creating a working environment that is inclusive and diverse.
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Company benefits
26 days holiday + 8 days bank holidays. 2 days paid volunteering. Training courses programme and Mentor Support. Training Scheme to works towards Professional Accreditation - Institute of Sustainability and Environmental Professionals (ISEP).
Disability Confident
A fair proportion of interviews for this apprenticeship will be offered to applicants with a disability or long-term health condition. This includes non-visible disabilities and conditions.
You can choose to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident scheme. You’ll need to meet the essential requirements to be considered for an interview.
After this apprenticeship
Taylor Woodrow Apprenticeship Scheme has been designed kick start your journey towards becoming an industry expert. You will get hands on experience and tailored training to support you every step of the way.
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
COVENTRY UNIVERSITY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000001292.
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