Requisition ID:76967

Job Category:Infrastructure

Location:London,London,United Kingdom

With over six decades of business and technical experience in the mining , energy , and infrastructure sectors, we see challenges evolving in every industry. We respond quickly with solutions that are smarter, more efficient, and innovative. We draw upon our 9,000 staff , with experience in over 150 countries , to challenge the status quo and create positive change for our clients, our employees, and the communities we serve.

Our expertise in infrastructure includes aviation, highways and bridges, planning and advisory services, ports, rail and transit, tunnels, and water. Want to be part of the creation and construction of our cities? Then the infrastructure team is for you!

Graduate Careers

Are you passionate about making a positive difference for people, places, and economies? Do you want to work with some of the best economists, strategists, and urban regeneration consultants in the UK and internationally. Hatch has long experience of hiring great graduates. Many progress within our company into senior roles with opportunities to work on projects across the UK and internationally.

The Roles: Graduate Consultants

Hatch is recruiting excellent graduates as consultants to join our Urban Solutions teams in Manchester and London. You will work as part of high-performing teams delivering innovative solutions to private and public sector clients. Recent projects have included supporting Aviva Investors to develop an innovative social value framework, a new economic strategy for the city of Oxford, and an impact assessment of BT’s UK operations.

We offer the opportunity to work at the heart of the UK’s drive for a sustainable future. Our advice to our clients directly influences positive change, helps them to secure investment and capture the impacts of what they do. Our team works on a range of interesting, innovative, and inspiring consultancy projects, across sectors including employment, industrial sectors, skills, innovation, infrastructure, energy, land and property, culture, leisure, and tourism.

Specifically you will work in an integrated team making a vital contribution to the evidence, insights and advice we provide, with responsibilities including collecting and analysing economic and social data, reviewing policy and research, supporting project consultations, active participation in client, stakeholder, and team meetings, survey design, mapping, and economic and social impact modelling. Hatch is committed to developing your capabilities and will give you great opportunities to use your skillset whilst working on some of the most important challenges facing the world.

Who We Are: About Hatch

Hatch is passionately committed to the pursuit of a better world through positive change. Our global network of 9,000 professionals combines vast engineering and business knowledge. We work in partnership with our clients to develop market strategies, manage and optimise production, develop new game-changing technologies, and design and deliver complex capital projects. Our corporate roots extend back more than a hundred years, and our experience spans over 150 countries around the world in the energy, metals, infrastructure, digital, and investments market sectors. We have the knowledge and expertise to deliver the smartest most innovative solutions for the real world, to transform businesses and communities for the future.

Urban Solutions is the economics, urban planning, and real estate strategy arm of Hatch, delivering strategic economic development services to public and private clients. In the UK, our Urban Solutions team works closely with our Environmental and Advisory groups, and the successful candidates will be encouraged to work on projects in these other divisions as well as Urban Solutions.

Our consultants and analysts support our clients by:

• Defining the future: We provide forward thinking about city futures and place-making, working on strategies, visions, investment, and delivery plans.
• Securing investment : We support our clients to secure investment in projects by preparing business cases and economic appraisals.
• Assessing impacts : We enable our clients understand their impacts through social value and economic impact assessments, strategies to maximise the economic and social benefits they deliver, and evidence that helps make their case.
• Establishing what works : We identify lessons to improve performance and increase impacts through the evaluation of programmes, projects, and organisations.

With Urban Solutions offices in Manchester and London, Hatch has a strong presence across the UK, and a pool of leading technical experts across the globe. The skills and expertise of Hatch are available to enable our clients to solve the challenges they face and help them make better, more informed decisions. We are a global company, which will give you the opportunity to work on a wide range of consultancy projects both within the UK and internationally.

Your Development: Training and Support

We are committed to developing our consultants to become the best they can be. You will benefit from a positive and supportive work culture where people are supported to realise their full potential. We provide full training and support to develop your career, with opportunities to work with and learn from colleagues across our UK and international offices. You will receive a structured training programme to develop your practical and technical skills for consultancy, with hands on project experience from the moment you join us. Throughout your first year, a specific colleague will provide guidance and support to help you settle in.

What are we looking for?

Our people are the heart of our business, and we are looking for exceptional new members of our team who have:

• A real appetite for understanding economic, social, environmental, and technological change and how this will affect the future
• A keen interest in using intelligence, data, and analysis to help our clients make informed choices about strategy and investment
• A strong desire to learn and develop new skills and knowledge, and to test themselves in a dynamic consultancy environment
• Enthusiasm for working as part of diverse consultancy teams with colleagues in the UK and internationally

Ideally, you will have:

• A degree, probably in subject areas such as economics, geography and planning, development/ international development, social research and public policy , data science and analytics etc
• Strong numeric and analytical skills
• Effective writing and presentation skills
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to problem solve and think through complex questions

What we offer

We offer a generous salary commensurate with qualifications and experience, in addition to flexible working arrangements and a path to other unique opportunities due to our employee ownership model.For personal development, we provide a supportive working environment, backed by a network of development and welfare managers. We offer a subsidised flexible benefits package, with benefits you can select from including a private health scheme, gym membership, dental insurance, purchase of annual leave, a cycle to work scheme and season ticket loans.

Interested? Then join us!

To find out more about us, see our website , learn more and our Linkedin page

Please apply, attaching a cover letter and CV. The closing date for applications is 7th July 2022.

Tell us in your cover letter why you are keen to pursue a career with us, what interests you about the fields we work in, and what you would bring to Hatch. Please specify which office (London or Manchester) you prefer.

Why join us?

• Work with great people to make a difference
• Collaborate on exciting projects to develop innovative solutions
• Top employer

What we offer you?

• Flexible work environment
• Long term career development
• Think globally, work locally

We're committed to fostering a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we operate and serve. Hatch is an Equal Opportunity Employer that considers applicants without regard to age, race, color, national origin, citizenship, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected status. If you have any accommodation requirements, please let us know. We'll do our best to meet your needs in accordance with applicable local legislation.

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