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Application Deadline: Recruitment is ongoing. Please apply as soon as possible as the advert may close once we have sufficient applicants.
The Opportunity
Join our 2027 Graduate Programme as a Graduate Cost Consultant in our Bristol office. As part of our growing and dynamic commercial team, you will collaborate with Project Managers and clients to deliver sound financial, contractual, and commercial management—with exciting expansion and focus across the energy sector as well as key infrastructure projects.
About The Role
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a developing team where you can build your career, take on new challenges, and gain hands-on commercial experience across the full project lifecycle. Working alongside experienced Cost Consultants and Project Managers, you will provide vital commercial support to both Stantec and our external clients.
Your core responsibilities will include:
- Cost Reporting & Financial Management: Assisting with ongoing cost reporting, budget tracking, and financial monitoring across live projects.
- Contract Administration & Advice: Providing commercial and contractual support and advice to project teams to ensure compliance and risk mitigation.
- Procurement & Tendering: Supporting the procurement process, including preparing tender documentation, evaluating contractor proposals, and assisting with vendor management.
- Estimating & Measurement: Assisting senior colleagues in producing accurate cost estimates, quantity take-offs, and cost plans during early project stages.
- Change Management: Monitoring project variations, evaluating compensation events, and supporting the management of commercial scope changes.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Working closely with integrated project teams, clients, and supply chain partners to deliver value-for-money solutions.
We are committed to supporting employees in achieving relevant professional qualifications and accreditation. We will provide a structured professional progression plan and mentorship supporting you to achieve MRICS status on your route to professional chartership with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) .
Your Impact
In this role, your commercial expertise will directly safeguard project budgets, drive efficiency, and ensure value across major energy and infrastructure schemes. By helping our clients navigate complex contracts and commercial challenges, you will support the successful delivery of sustainable projects for communities and society.
Take a look at our commercial and project delivery work: Program & Construction Management, and review the career journey of our Stantec graduates here: Stantec | Career Stories.
About You
At Stantec, we value your potential over past experience. Along with a Bachelor’s degree (BSc) in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, or a closely related discipline (accredited by RICS ), you will be:
- A Perseverer – You stay composed in the face of setbacks, approaching challenges with confidence and determination.
- An Adapter – You’re able to remain calm in new and changing situations, comfortably switching between a variety of dynamic and exciting tasks.
- A Focused Individual – You focus on what matters, tuning out distractions to perform effectively in any situation.
- A Collaborator – You work effectively with lots of different people, considering others’ perspectives to shape better outcomes.
- An Eager Learner – You learn from your experiences and the world around you, using this knowledge to anticipate how situations may unfold.
Please note, we ask our graduates to come into the office a minimum of 4 days per week, to ensure that you receive sufficient time with your team and receive the appropriate level of support.
Applicants must have an unconditional right to live and work in the UK for an indefinite period without limitation.
Why Join Us?
What we offer:
- A competitive salary
- Private medical insurance
- A range of benefits, including holiday buy and sell, group income protection, and life assurance
- A permanent employment contract, reflecting our commitment to your long-term career at Stantec
- A professional progression plan to support you in gaining chartership
- A supportive, collaborative team environment, plus an Early Careers peer group and wider ERG network (learn more here: Stantec Employee Resource Groups)
Please see our Graduate Application FAQs if you have any questions. We look forward to receiving your application!
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About Stantec
The Stantec community unites more than 34,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents. We have been working with our clients and communities in the UK for over 150 years. We plan, design, deliver and manage the development and infrastructure needed to support the creation of sustainable, healthy and prosperous communities.
Our teams provide effective and relevant solutions, translating our clients’ vision into valued consents, deliverable plans for projects and programmes, and efficient designs for delivery, based on technical excellence and deep market insights. We deal with today’s challenges, but also keep a fairer, better tomorrow in sight, looking at how we deliver clean growth, support radical changes in our economy and meet the needs of future communities.
Stantec provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for future and current employment and prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We prohibit discrimination in decisions concerning recruitment, hiring, referral, promotion, compensation, fringe benefits, job training, terminations or any other condition of employment. Stantec is in compliance with laws and regulations and ensures equitable opportunities in all aspects of employment.
Building an inspired, inclusive work environment that attracts, supports, and develops world-class talent is a crucial key to our success. If you are excited by this role but worry that your experience doesn’t exactly align, we encourage you to apply.
At Stantec we want you to perform your best at every stage of the recruitment process and are committed to ensuring it is accessible to all. If you need any support or require adjustments to be made, then please contact [email protected] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.
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