Acoustics Assistant Consultant

Overview / Responsibilities

Are you ready to think about things differently and challenge the norm? We are too. Whether you are interested in exploring a technical, functional or creative career, whichever location you work in, you will experience an environment like no other.

The Opportunity

Wood is currently recruiting for a Noise and Vibration Assistant Consultant to be based in our Manchester office.  We are looking for enthusiastic candidates with an interest in environmental noise and vibration to join our friendly and hardworking team.

The successful candidates will join our growing team and help to deliver our projects focusing on environmental noise and vibration.  You will work alongside your colleagues in the Noise and Vibration Team as well as colleagues the wider Environmental Assessment Team to deliver project work.

On top of a competitive starting salary and flexible benefits, we create opportunities for you to connect, learn and grow.  You will have the opportunity to network with great minds, through the support of your colleagues and through peer-to-peer relationships within our early careers network.

The position would be based on a flexible working pattern with at least part time being office based.  Our current Noise team members are based in the Manchester, Bristol and London offices, and although the position will initially be based in Manchester, there may be opportunity to move to one of our other established offices.

Key Responsibilities

Your role will be to provide technical input to a variety of noise and vibration assessments as well as supporting senior colleagues in areas such project organisation and the preparation of proposals.  Your responsibilities will include site work, data analysis, computational modelling and reporting.  You will be supported and guided by senior colleagues.

Skills / Qualifications

• Ideally, we are looking for candidates with a Degree (Bachelors or Masters) in acoustics or an acoustics related subject.  However, because at Wood, we believe enthusiasm, personality, commitment and creative thinking are just as important as formal qualifications, we would be pleased to hear from candidates with equivalent experience or a qualification in a relevant subject (e.g. maths, physics or engineering)
• As you will be expected to carry out site work, you do need to have a full UK driving licence
• As consultants, our work involves communicating technical concepts to non-experts, so we ask for a good standard of spoken English and high levels of literacy and numeracy
• In addition, a working knowledge of Microsoft Office is required

Company Overview

Wood is a global leader in engineering and consultancy across energy and the built environment, helping to unlock solutions to some of the world’s most critical challenges. We provide consulting, projects and operations solutions in more than 60 countries, employing around 40,000 people. www.woodplc.com

Diversity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer that recognises the value of a diverse workforce. All suitably qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment on the basis of objective criteria and without regard to the following (which is a non-exhaustive list): race, colour, age, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics in accordance with the relevant governing laws.