**2025 Graduate Utilities, Energy & Infrastructure Consultant

London or Manchester

Salary ranging depending on qualifications, experience and location**

About Us

Hoare Lea is an award-winning engineering consultancy with a creative team of engineers, designers and technical specialists. We provide innovative solutions to complex engineering and design challenges for buildings.

Irrespective of the scale or complexity of a project, we provide a full range of MEP, environmental and sustainability services, bringing buildings to life and ensuring that they perform in operation as well as they look.

Utilities and Energy

As industry influencers, we strive for improvements that benefit our clients. We work alongside the firm’s MEP engineers, our sustainability team, or as a standalone service, covering all aspects of water, gas, electricity, telecoms and energy services.

Why Work For Us?

• You’ll collaborate with the industry’s best, working with a wide range of built-environment specialists.
• You’ll be part of progressive and exciting projects, able to experience innovative schemes across all sectors.
• You’ll advance your career, your way, thanks to our structured Career Paths framework.

The Role

This is an entrepreneurial role in rapidly developing area of the business. As a graduate engineer, your day-to-day tasks will vary;

• The role will involve assisting on project delivery, working with clients to manage the process of reinforcement, diversion and procurement of utility infrastructure.
• You will be working closely with the group’s Director, supporting other team members on a wide range of building projects with their varying utility infrastructure requirements.
• Working on live projects from day one – click here to view our exciting projects
• In a variety of sectors from healthcare to hotels
• Producing detailed designs and drawings
• Data modelling
• Attending client meetings
• Researching ground-breaking technologies
• Continuous CPD and learning opportunities

 Communicating will span all of these, as we regularly liaise with project teams, meet clients or end users, and attend collaborative meetings.

You will receive a dedicated mentor and supervisor and you will receive the best training to support you through your development with us.

What We Are Looking For

• An expected or achieved 2.1 degree or above in Energy Systems, Energy Economics or Energy Finance and general engineering, physics and mathematics degrees or sustainability
• A masters or other relevant post graduate qualification is an advantage
• Experience or knowledge of MATLAB, python or other programming languages would be an advantage
• Previous placement or work experience in a similar industry is an advantage
• Excellent communication, analytical and organisational skills
• Ability to work in a team environment and independently
• A friendly, ambitious and confident individual with a flexible and resilient approach

Our Benefits

To reward your hard work and commitment we offer both core and flexible benefits, a competitive salary and industry leading training and development to support you throughout your career.  For further information on the benefits we offer click here

How to Apply

To apply simply complete a CV profile and submit your application and for hints and tips in applying click here

We are unlikely to progress applications where sponsorship is required to obtain a Tier 2 (general) visa as we expect to be able to fill all our roles with candidates who have the right to work in place.

Diversity, equity and inclusion

We are committed to being a place where underrepresented individuals and communities are not just included, but where marginalised knowledge and experience is valued, amplified, and harnessed. So, we strongly encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, including women, people of the Global Majority, LGBTQ+ individuals, disabled people, neurodivergent people, and those from all other underrepresented or marginalised groups. To learn more about our approach to diversity, equity and inclusion, see our DEI strategy.

Adjustments and accommodations

If there are adjustments or accommodations that we can put in place to ensure you can participate and give your best at any stage of the recruitment process (whether relating to disability, neurodivergence, or anything else) please let us know.

Flexible working

We are committed to enabling a healthy work-life balance for all employees. So, we welcome applications from candidates seeking flexible working arrangements to suit their particular needs and lifestyle, including part-time, term-time-only, and remote working.

Data privacy

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