Sustainability Consultant Apprentice

Method Consulting LLP

Swindon (SN1 1BY)

Closes on Thursday 30 April 2026

Posted on 17 February 2026

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Summary

Help shape environmentally responsible buildings from the groud up. Assess sustainability performance and model embodied carbon to support Net Zero goals. With experience, you can work toward becoming a Chartered Environmentalist, progressing into senior sustainability roles.

Wage

£14,722.50 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Highly competitive salary once qualified.

 

Training course
Environmental practitioner (Degree) (level 6)
Hours
Monday - Friday 4 Days in Swindon Office 1 Day at UWE for study. Shifts TBC.

37 hours 30 minutes a week

Start date

Tuesday 1 September 2026

Duration

4 years 5 months

Positions available

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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

  • Assess the sustainability performance of buildings using recognised frameworks (e.g. BREEAM, LEED, WELL).
  • Model and calculate embodied carbon across building life cycles.
  • Support Net Zero strategies through whole-life carbon analysis.
  • Advise on low-carbon materials and environmentally responsible design solutions.
  • Analyse energy performance and identify efficiency improvements.
  • Contribute to climate resilience and circular economy initiatives.
  • Prepare sustainability reports and communicate findings to project teams and clients.
  • Stay up to date with environmental legislation, standards, and best practice guidance.
  • Work towards professional accreditation, such as Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv).
  • Develop expertise to progress into senior sustainability and environmental leadership roles.

Where you'll work

3 New Bridge Square
Swindon
SN1 1BY

Training

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

Training provider

UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL

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

Five-year fully funded programme
• Full-time role: 37.5 hours per week
» 4 days in the Swindon office at 3 Newbridge Square, Swindon, SN1 1BY
» 1 day at the University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY for study
• Reasonable travel expenses to and from UWE once a week

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English Language (grade 5 or 6 (B))
  • Maths (grade 5 or 6 (B))

A Level in:

  • Any other subject (grade B)
  • Any other subject (grade B)
  • Geography (grade B)

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
  • Number skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental
  • Patience
  • Enthusiastic
  • Strong Work Ethic
  • Interest in climate change
  • Interest in Sustainability

About this employer

Method Consulting is a specialist Environmental Engineering and Sustainability Consultancy within the Built Environment sector. Our Head Office is in Swindon, with offices in London, Oxford, Bristol, Exeter, Cornwall and Cardiff. 

 

Our Building Services Engineers design the environmental systems within buildings, working closely with Architects, Structural Engineers and the rest of a project team. They are often the most front-facing lead of our departments and will decide on the environmental strategy, how the building will be heated or cooled, how water will be distributed, and they work closely with our Building Physics team. They work towards becoming a Chartered Engineer.

 

Our Digital Engineering Technicians, sometimes called Revit Technicians, bring our designs to life and coordinate closely with the other project team members to make sure all the designed systems can work in reality. They use computer software to digitise the designs, working in a complex 3d model. The technicians and engineers work very closely together. 

 

Our Sustainability Consultants work alongside the entire project team from the early stages right up until a building is complete, offering environmental advice and assessing projects against an environmental framework. They also conduct embodied carbon modelling of building projects, as part of the drive towards Net Zero Carbon. They work towards becoming a Chartered Environmentalist. 

Recognised as one of Building Magazine’s Top 150 Employers and as CIBSE Employer of the Year. Many of our projects have also received recognition through industry awards.

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Company benefits

Please refer to our website for the full list of benefits

https://www.methodllp.com/careers/benefits-and-incentives/

After this apprenticeship

Once graduated with your degree, you will be supported to achieve chartership status with the relevant organisation.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND, BRISTOL

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000014861.

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Closes on Thursday 30 April 2026