Summer Internship (Sustainability in built environment) London, England
Job description
Location: London
Salary: £25K pro-rata
Duration: 6-8 Weeks
Hours: Full Time (37.5 hours per week)
Who We Are
The Useful Simple Trust (UST) is a group of purpose-driven designers and consultants who trailblaze in the built environment. The four professional design and consultancy practices within the Useful Simple Trust are: Expedition Engineering, Useful Projects, Useful Studio and Thomas Matthews. We share innovative ideas, space and experience, and collaborate on a range of high-profile projects in the UK and internationally. Our breadth of experience gives us a depth of inter-disciplinary thinking rarely found in the industry.
The company has 90+ talented and committed civil and structural engineers, architects, strategists and designers, sustainability & construction innovation consultants who work side-by-side creating positive outcomes for our changing environment following our key company values: Work for Good, More with Less, Restore and Adapt and Get, Set, Zero.
As a Social Enterprise, B-Corp™ and Employee Benefit Organisation, we do things differently. Our people are highly motivated and committed, in part because our structure and values mean that our combined success is shared equitably. We share part of our profit and re-invest the rest in research, social and environmental projects. We deliver purposeful projects that we believe have a sustainable impact on our clients and the wider human environment.
Useful Projects is a sustainability consultancy driving positive change for our clients and society. Our mission is to help organisations tackle the significant challenges they are facing spanning net zero carbon, circular economy and social value creation, to biodiversity net gain. We help our clients find added value in delivering sustainable development, by providing expert independent insight in an engaging manner.
We are working on some of the UKs most high-profile projects with clients who want to design, build and operate differently. This is an opportunity to bring forward innovative approaches across energy, whole life carbon, biodiversity and the circular economy to build in resilience and social value. The ideal candidates will have broad knowledge of the sustainability agenda and deeper knowledge in one or more specialist areas.
What we are looking for
We are seeking talented and enthusiastic penultimate year university students, undergraduates or recent graduates to join the Trust for a summer internship. We have two sustainability internships available: one focused on sustainability consultancy for masterplans and buildings, and one focused on sustainability consultancy for organisations.
We have plenty of work that you will get the chance to be involved with, take a look at our website and LinkedIn to get an idea what we do!
Attributes
Professional qualifications and core knowledge are expected to include:
- Studying relevant qualifications and demonstrated knowledge in a subject related to environmental design and analysis, sustainable development or sustainable business (we are open to applicants from a wide range of degrees from economic development to geography, architecture to mechanical engineering).
- A passion for sustainability
- Drive, initiative, and enterprise
- Enthusiastic person, who takes pride in his/ her work
- Great eye for detail
- Proactive person who enjoys working on challenging jobs
- Committed and hardworking
- Flexible, organised and good communicator
- Happy to contribute and get involved in different things
- Ability to support teams across the Trust
- Proactive approach
Personal Attributes
- Team player, we encourage our people to work together
- Good sense of humour
- Passionate about building a better future
What we offer
We believe in investing and growing our people as much as we do our business. We foster talent, equal opportunity, diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing to develop a high performing and sustainable workforce.
- The opportunity to assist on an interesting range of projects
- The chance to work alongside some of the best talent in the industry
- Exposure to innovation and forward-thinking sustainability strategies across numerous sectors
