Graduate Consultant - London

Graduate Consultant

Join our collaborative Urban Strategies consulting team and help design solutions that make cities and communities more resilient. From transforming cities to tackling the climate emergency, you’ll play a vital role in creating a low-carbon and resilient future.

Join our Consulting team

An exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Graduate to join our London team!

Buro Happold's Urban Strategies team brings together the expertise of world class engineers, urban planners, and consultants to examine cities from a variety of angles, giving our clients a unique picture of the challenges to tackle and the assets and opportunities their city can capitalise on. Working on a diverse range of fascinating projects that cover urban development, infrastructure planning and design, resource management, and programme delivery, our Cities business unit is at the forefront of innovation in the urban environment.

Our current portfolio includes diverse city projects and programmes globally. We are working with city leaders to examine the obstacles in the way of their vision, defining the strategies and programmes to make concrete progress. Our work helps cities to enhance their plans, programmes and practices enabling cities to deliver tangible improvements to quality of life for the benefit of all citizens. In keeping with our technical background, all our analysis and strategy development is underpinned by the full range of deep infrastructure design, engineering and environmental analysis available across our practice.

To find out more about our Consulting team please click here.

What sort of projects will I work on?

We work on a variety of national, regional and city scale projects globally, some of our recent and ongoing projects include:

• Supporting Cambridge to review the long-term growth potential of the city and providing recommendations on the appropriate delivery and governance models to take this forward
• Setting a spatial framework for unlocking future housing and employment development adjacent to the Oxford Cowley rail line
• Preparing a detailed masterplan for the Riyadh Expo 2030 Event and preparing a legacy masterplan for the future development of the site into a new city quarter following the Event
• Working with the Government of Uzbekistan to develop two regional spatial strategies and city spatial plans for six cities, to underpin a new housing delivery programme that promotes compact, resilient urban development.

What will I do?

• Under appropriate guidance, take responsibility for the day-to-day completion of tasks.
• Work in conjunction with senior staff and liaising with external sub-consultants where appropriate.
• Undertake work on detailed urban and regional planning frameworks and associated analyses (including geo-spatial analysis).
• Development of relevant planning models using MS Excel or other packages.
• Participate in learning and development initiatives to build own capability and to ensure skills are disseminated in the team.
• Help ensure the timely delivery of high-quality reports, presentations and other client outputs.
• Help ensure that rigorous analysis and outputs are produced for each project.

We would like to hear from you if  you are studying (or have graduated) in any of the below degrees:

• Knowledge from a degree such as Geography, Urban Planning, town planning, social science, environmental science, geographic information systems, architecture or real estate;
• A keen interest and appreciation of urban/city challenges and the value of providing a spatial understanding and integrated offer (including planning, economics, and technical infrastructure and environmental expertise).
• Strong communication skills and an ability to work well independently and also in a team;
• Interest or skills in urban informatics, data science, statistical packages and/or business intelligence software (MS Power BI, Tableau) would be desirable 
• Design and mapping skills with experience and skills using packages such as InDesign, Illustrator and GIS software packages.

Graduates at Buro Happold

When you join Buro Happold you are embedded into an exciting network of engineers and consultants, that supports your career development.  We have a Graduate Connect learning programme that targets specific learning and supports your journey to chartership as well as our Young Employee's Forum that links all our young talent in terms of knowledge sharing, learning and very importantly socialising.  

We place great importance on a having a safe and inclusive environment and will seek to make any arrangements that may be required to enable all who work with us to thrive. We have flexible working hours and hybrid working, and welcome applications from all backgrounds and walks of life. If you have any questions about how this could apply to your specific circumstances, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.   

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Please see our Early Careers Candidate Pack for further guidance and information.

Application Process 

We typically complete shortlisting after the role has closed. Therefore, you can expect to hear from us with 2-4 weeks of the job closing on our website. Should you wish to contact us to find out more information or to get an update, please contact earlycareers@burohappold.com. 

Please note that this role is for an Autumn 2027 start. 

A place for everyone

Buro Happold values an individual's flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.   

Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive. 

We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.

Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact earlycareers@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application. 

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