Sustainability Apprentice

Renishaw

Wotton-Under-Edge (GL12 8JR)

Closes on Sunday 22 February 2026

Posted on 14 January 2026

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Summary

As a Sustainability Apprentice, you will support the Sustainability Team in delivering initiatives aligned with our Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy. You will gain hands-on experience in data analysis, reporting, and stakeholder engagement, while learning how sustainability principles apply in a global engineering context.

Wage

£18,500 a year

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Training course
Corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioner (level 4)
Hours
Monday to Friday, usual business hours with an early finish on a Friday.

36 hours a week

Start date

Tuesday 1 September 2026

Duration

3 years

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

You will work closely with other members of the sustainability team and with stakeholders across the business to drive forward projects that help measure and lower our carbon emissions, as well as progressing our wider sustainable development goals (SDGs). You will gain hands-on experience in data analysis, reporting, and stakeholder engagement, while learning how sustainability principles apply in a global engineering context. This role offers experience, mentorship, and a clear pathway to becoming a Sustainability Officer.

What will I do?

Candidates applying for this position should have a keen interest in Sustainability. Some of the key activities in this apprenticeship include:

  • Collect, validate, and analyse sustainability-related data to inform business decisions and support regulatory reporting
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed sustainability into business practices
  • Support with regulatory sustainability reporting and data auditing ensuring compliance with standards
  • Contribute to projects focused on improving data quality and carbon reduction initiatives
  • Support in the development of clear and compelling communications about sustainability progress to internal and external stakeholders
  • Proactively understand emerging sustainability trends, regulations, and best practices
  • Gain an understanding of an ESG strategy within a FTSE250 organisation
  • Be a visible sustainability advocate, promoting awareness and supporting new initiatives across the business.

Where you'll work

New Mills
Wotton-Under-Edge
GL12 8JR

Training

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

Training provider

LDN APPRENTICESHIPS LTD

Training course

Corporate responsibility and sustainability practitioner (level 4)

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What you'll learn

Course contents
  • Select and implement project management and planning tools applicable to the type of project/ campaign lifecycle.
  • Assess the effectiveness of change and identify opportunities to improve outcomes, guiding and supporting others to deliver results.
  • Balance own CR&S workload to prioritise competing demands and achieve key performance indicators.
  • Utilise strengths of internal organisational structures to help build self-sustaining CR&S populations.
  • Tailor approach to maintaining new/existing external stakeholder relationships to achieve progress on plans (e.g objectives, key initiatives and shared interests).
  • Contribute to the negotiation of external CR&S projects of mutual benefit.
  • Adopt a communication method that takes account of the audience and is suitable for the circumstances.
  • Recommend opportunities for external engagement, articulating the mutual benefits and risks.
  • Contribute to written reports on CR&S performance in line with organisational requirements.
  • Contribute to the drafting of the CR&S strategy.
  • Adjust leadership style to achieve results, having regard to the needs of the individual/teams involved.
  • Select data that is relevant to the CR&S issue being considered.
  • Analyse data to form evidence-based conclusions on CR&S performance.
  • Deliver CR&S events in accordance with contractual arrangements.
  • Quality assure own and others work in accordance with organisational requirements
  • Contribute to reporting externally on CR&S Strategy and delivery in line with industry and legislative requirements.
  • Identify own organisations CR&S opportunities and threats. Escalate risks within own organisation when needed.
  • Research the CR&S landscape, escalating best practice opportunities within own organisation.
  • Apply management techniques needed to deliver CR&S projects within budget.
  • Train colleagues in CR&S techniques, tailoring the learning style to the circumstances.
  • Identify and deliver initiatives that may raise funds for CR&S projects.
  • Identify and apply relevant IT solutions to CR&S issues.
  • Select and implement project management and planning tools applicable to the type of project/ campaign lifecycle.
  • Assess the effectiveness of change and identify opportunities to improve outcomes, guiding and supporting others to deliver results.
  • Balance own CR&S workload to prioritise competing demands and achieve key performance indicators.
  • Utilise strengths of internal organisational structures to help build self-sustaining CR&S populations.
  • Tailor approach to maintaining new/existing external stakeholder relationships to achieve progress on plans (e.g objectives, key initiatives and shared interests).
  • Contribute to the negotiation of external CR&S projects of mutual benefit.
  • Adopt a communication method that takes account of the audience and is suitable for the circumstances.
  • Recommend opportunities for external engagement, articulating the mutual benefits and risks.
  • Contribute to written reports on CR&S performance in line with organisational requirements.
  • Contribute to the drafting of the CR&S strategy.
  • Adjust leadership style to achieve results, having regard to the needs of the individual/teams involved.
  • Select data that is relevant to the CR&S issue being considered.
  • Analyse data to form evidence-based conclusions on CR&S performance.
  • Deliver CR&S events in accordance with contractual arrangements.
  • Quality assure own and others work in accordance with organisational requirements
  • Contribute to reporting externally on CR&S Strategy and delivery in line with industry and legislative requirements.
  • Identify own organisations CR&S opportunities and threats. Escalate risks within own organisation when needed.
  • Research the CR&S landscape, escalating best practice opportunities within own organisation.
  • Apply management techniques needed to deliver CR&S projects within budget.
  • Train colleagues in CR&S techniques, tailoring the learning style to the circumstances.
  • Identify and deliver initiatives that may raise funds for CR&S projects.
  • Identify and apply relevant IT solutions to CR&S issues.

Training schedule

This training schedule has not been finalised. Check with this employer if you’ll need to travel to a college or training location for this apprenticeship.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

A Level in:

3x A Levels or equivalent L3 qualification (grade Pass or above)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Organisation skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical

About this employer

Renishaw is a global engineering company that designs and builds high-precision technology used in industries like healthcare, transport, and manufacturing. From metal 3D printing to measurement systems, our innovations help make products more accurate, reliable, and efficient.

We work closely with our customers to solve complex engineering and science challenges. Our unique blend of pioneering research and product innovation helps our customers to solve complex engineering and science challenges, meaning we touch billions of lives around the world.

Our Early Careers cohort consists of around 195 Graduates, 203 Apprentices and 58 Placements. You are the people who can make a real difference. By bringing your new and innovative ideas you will help keep Renishaw at the forefront of the industry, and that’s why we invest if your continuous development and success from day one.

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Disability Confident

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

Following the completion of the apprenticeship, you will transfer into a role within the Sustainability Team, if a role is available, where there will be continued improvement and development of your skills and knowledge. For the right candidates, continued study towards a degree apprenticeship or other sector-relevant qualification is supported where relevant.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

LDN APPRENTICESHIPS LTD

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000008704.

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Closes on Sunday 22 February 2026

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