Graduate Consultant - Flood Risk

Tetra Tech Limited; Leeds; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy in the UK is seeking a Graduate Consultant - Flood Risk to join their teams in Leeds and Manchester. This full-time role involves assisting in flood risk solutions, hydraulic modelling, and drainage design. Candidates should have a degree (min 2:1) in a relevant field, excellent communication skills, and a drive to progress their career. Join a supportive workplace where you can make a real difference in water management and climate change mitigation.

Benefits

Mentoring and coaching

Bonuses for performance

Internal training programs

Qualifications

• Demonstrate knowledge of flood risk and drainage.
• Ability to manage workloads effectively and on time.
• Commitment to health and safety best practices.

Responsibilities

• Assist in flood risk solution design.
• Conduct hydraulic modelling and hydrology assessments.
• Prepare drainage design and SUDs.

Skills

Team player

Good communication skills

Interest in hydraulic modelling

Desire to progress career

Enthusiastic professional

Self-motivated

Flexible and adaptable

Education

Degree in relevant field (minimum grade 2:1)

Job description

Overview

Are you looking for an exciting, interesting career role where you can help make a difference for the future. Tetra Tech is a leading technical, engineering, and environmental consultancy. We provide data-driven, market-leading water, environment, infrastructure, energy, and international development solutions to clients in the UK and Europe. We deliver locally and we’re backed globally. In the UK and Europe, Tetra Tech has more than 6,000 employees and more than 50 offices. Our unique organisational structure enables us to be nimble and respond with the agility of a small business, backed by international resources and capabilities from across the world. Our people are at the heart of everything we do! They help our clients succeed, our business prosper and the communities we work in thrive. We need the very best people to maintain our position as a market leader and so provide a collaborative environment that supports individual performance, innovation, and creativity.

In a graduate role you will work on exciting, ground-breaking projects from day one, with support to grow in your chosen discipline as well as training to develop the core skills needed to succeed in a professional organisation. Our early careers programme gives you the chance to connect with others across the region / business who are also starting their career, as well as mentoring, Chartership support & bonuses and more.

Role details

Role Title: Graduate Consultant - Flood Risk

Start Date: September 2026

Location: Leeds and Manchester

Job Description: We require an individual of high calibre to assist in the flood risk and drainage teams at Tetra Tech across a range of activities such as flood risk solution design, hydraulic modelling and hydrology assessment, drainage design and SUDs. We work across a diverse range of clients delivering challenging infrastructure projects for the private and public sector. Our projects typically range from Flood Risk Assessments for planning supporting developments from 10 homes up to 5,000, delivering local authority flood risk schemes from their inception through to hydraulic modelling and the design of options through to supporting private sector organisations in managing flood risk challenges on their sites. Our projects vary in size from £1m to £100m schemes covering defence, transport, local government, infrastructure, healthcare, education, commercial, industrial and residential development. You will work independently and proactively on technical aspects from a project’s inception, determining client briefs, to the delivery and close out of projects in accordance with best practice and supported by senior colleagues throughout. We provide internal project management training as well as a structured learning and development platform including mentoring and coaching, CPD and training to ensure our staff are the best they can be to deliver excellence to our clients. The projects are UK wide and some travel would be expected on occasion, including working outside normal office hours.

Responsibilities

The role covers activities such as:

• Flood risk solution design
• Hydraulic modelling and hydrology assessment
• Drainage design and SUDs
• Working on projects for private and public sector clients across defence, transport, local government, infrastructure, healthcare, education, commercial, industrial and residential development

Projects range from 10 to 5,000+ homes and from £1m to £100m schemes. You will work on projects from inception to delivery, under supervision and with opportunities to develop core skills in professional practice.

Qualifications/Skills Requirements

The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate some or all the requirements below:

• Be educated to degree level or equivalent (minimum grade 2:1) in a relevant field and eligible for CEng MICE or chartered with CIWEM.
• Be an enthusiastic professional who likes a challenge (essential)
• Want to work in a busy and growing team and have a desire to progress their career (essential)
• Want to develop a career in flood risk management
• Have an interest in hydraulic modelling and catchment hydrology for rivers, coast and surface water
• Be passionate about helping to reduce the impacts of climate change
• Have an interest in natural flood risk management solutions
• Have an interest in environmental enhancement
• Have good interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work independently, a collaborative approach and a proven ability to deliver work on time
• Have a commitment to encouraging good health and safety practices within the workplace and within design
• Be a team player displaying enthusiasm, flexibility and versatility
• Hold a full UK Driving License (desired)
• Security Clearance to minimum SC level preferable (or be suitable and willing to apply for clearance essential)

Application Closing Date: 31st October 2025

Assessment Centre to be held: February 2026

Working approach

We take pride in delivering projects effectively for clients. This often requires colleagues to be together— in offices or on site – to ensure the best outcomes. However, when possible, we also advocate for flexibility around how, when, and where you work. There is no one approach that fits all; each team manages their own way of working, and we trust our employees and focus on outputs, not inputs. Meeting up with colleagues and clients face to face in office environments or on site is important for collaboration, face-to-face meetings, appraisals and development.

Making everybody feel welcome at Tetra Tech is important to us – because everybody is welcome. If you have a disability, learning difficulty, medical condition or any other individual need, we’d be happy to talk to you about making reasonable adjustments to our application and selection process that will enable you to be your best.

Tetra Tech is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity/shared parental leave, in line with the Equalities Act 2010.

Find out more at: https://www.tetratecheurope.com/careers/early-careers/

Seniorities and employment type

• Seniority level: Internship
• Employment type: Full-time

Job function and industries

• Job function: Consulting, Information Technology, and Sales
• Industries: Business Consulting and Services

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