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Green Careers Hour – A broadcast for young people in schools and colleges
The Careers & Enterprise Company supported Learn Live to curate a virtual “Green Careers Hour” at 10am on Thursday 4th November.
The hour featured employers from across the economy that provide “green jobs” (i.e. employment in activity that directly contributes to – or indirectly supports – the achievement of the UK’s net zero emissions target and other environmental goals).
The aim of the broadcast was to demystify what is meant by “green jobs” (both for young people and those advising them) and to inspire students to consider the different pathways and future careers options that they open up, including HE, technical and apprenticeship routes.
Students were able to attend online either live on the day or to access the content through a recording. Register now as a student, teacher or parent to gain understanding of a significant growth area for jobs and the economy.
As one of the country’s leading construction companies, we are proud to be working with clients on projects of all sizes, complexities and sectors, spanning across the whole of the UK.
We have the expertise, experience and flexibility to satisfy a range of customer requirements, from a complex, strategic asset costing hundreds of millions of pounds, to a £250k extension to create more classroom space in a school.
Kier Construction Eastern & Midlands delivers comprehensive construction expertise throughout the West and East Midlands and the East Anglia. From our self-constructed regional head office in Waterbeach, Cambridge, and offices in Norwich (Norfolk), Rushden (Northamptonshire), Witham (Essex), and Solihull (Birmingham) we work with a wide portfolio of clients on schemes including laboratories, educational buildings, hospitals, prisons, commercial premises and student accommodation.
We have a truly collaborative approach to the construction process and have built a reputation for delivering excellent customer service, minimising cost and risk, and driving innovation and quality.
For more information please visit: www.kier.co.uk
Twitter handle: @kierconstruct
Sanctuary Group is one of the UK’s leading providers of housing, care and commercial services, managing accommodation throughout England and Scotland. We were set up over 50 years ago to deliver housing and care to those in need of it, and that original purpose still guides us today.
We are committed to reducing our environmental impact and behaving sustainably for the benefit of our customers, the communities in which we operate, and the planet on which we live. Having our own ‘Sustainability and Climate Change’ directorate ensures we succeed in our journey of reducing our CO2 emissions and improving our environmental performance across the Group against five specific cross-cutting themes: data, people, assets, procurement and evaluation. Our Environment Strategy outlines our commitment in aiming to become a net zero carbon organisation by 2050.
As we look to our net zero future, it is clear we will need the support of a wide variety of ‘green’ careers, from planning and delivering a programme of works that will dramatically improve the energy efficiency of our properties; to working with technology such as AI and Internet of Things to transform our operational processes. With COP26 approaching, this is the perfect time to plan for a greener future.
For more information please visit: www.sanctuary-group.co.uk
Twitter handle: @WeAreSanctuary
Vistry Group is uniquely positioned to lead the way in the UK housing market with a countercyclical business model featuring Vistry Housebuilding and Vistry Partnerships.
We have an unmatched portfolio of brands – including Bovis Homes and Linden Homes – with rich histories and strong reputations, and through this challenging year we have retained a 5-Star HBF Customer Satisfaction Rating as we delivered high quality homes for our customers and clients. Our key asset is our people – around 3,000 of them across England – who have come together to live our values of Integrity, Caring and Quality.
They have delivered on our purpose of developing sustainable new homes and communities across all sectors of the UK housing market.
For more information please visit: https://www.vistrygroup.co.uk/
Twitter handle: @VistryG
Thakeham are a sustainable, infrastructure-led place maker working across the South. A team, of industry experts, we deliver consistently high standards in all we do. Thakeham are community creators with a zero carbon focus. We are passionate about our people and the places that we build with family, community and wellbeing at the heart of all we do.
Our business divides into three key areas – we are one of the largest strategic land promoters in the South-East, a HBF 5* House Builder and a leading partnership developer, working for Councils and Housing Associations to deliver exceptional quality homes. Thakeham is built on five core values of quality, people, the environment, partnerships and community.
An HBF 5* builder, Thakeham delivers distinctive residential developments and quality affordable homes across the South. Each Thakeham home is a statement of our commitment to workmanship. For us quality is tenure blind. Because every home is a statement of our care and craftsmanship, we’ve built our reputation on it and it makes us who we are.
For more information please visit: https://thakeham.com/
Twitter handle: @thakeham
PensionBee is a leading online pension provider, enabling customers to interact with their savings through its unique combination of smart technology and dedicated customer service.
Since it was founded in 2014 by Romi Savova, PensionBee has been a challenger in an industry ripe for disruption. It has grown rapidly by helping consumers to solve the challenges they face when it comes to locating, combining and managing their pension savings. PensionBee counts 155,000 Active Customers from 18-80 years of age with £2.0 billion in Assets under Administration as at 30 June 2021. Its range of pension plans are tailored to its customers and are managed by some of the world’s largest money managers including: BlackRock, HSBC, Legal & General and State Street Global Advisors.
PensionBee uses its proprietary technology and Open APIs to allow customers to manage their pension easily, view their live balance, and with the help of a smart calculator to plan their savings, make contributions and withdrawals online, all with transparency on fees. It continuously engages with customers through its dedicated customer account managers using jargon-free communication and listens to feedback to develop new tools which help customers to easily plan for their retirement. PensionBee has consistently maintained a Customer Retention Rate and an AUA Retention Rate of >95% and a 4.7★ Excellent Trustpilot rating.
PensionBee is admitted to trading on the High Growth Segment of the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market (LON:PBEE).
For more information please visit: https://www.pensionbee.com/
Twitter handle: @pensionbee
Aico, an Ei Company, are the European market leader in home life safety, pioneering new technologies and offering high quality alarms, developed and manufactured in Ireland. All Aico alarms meet UK standards and offer a variety of sensor types to guarantee protection for every home, the cornerstone of which is delivering education, quality, service and innovation.
As the market leader in home life safety, Aico strive to deliver safer homes through engaging with communities to educate and promote best practice. ‘Aico in the Community’ was developed to provide support to both local and national educational and charitable organisations in building sustainable futures for communities, focusing on four core areas: Education, Business Enterprise, Charity, Volunteering.
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The first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK in over 20 years; Hinkley Point C in Somerset will provide low-carbon electricity for around 6 million homes, create thousands of jobs and bring lasting benefits to the UK economy.
Hinkley Point C will be delivered by many different contractor organisations, all bringing world class knowledge and expertise to the challenge. These organisations will work as one team, led by EDF Energy.
The construction and operation of Hinkley Point C will create thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities in a broad range of occupations and careers. There will be job opportunities in construction, civil engineering, electrical installation, hospitality, catering, logistics, security, site services, support roles and others over the coming years.
It’s not just about the construction either, when complete, Hinkley Point C will have an expected workforce of 900 people to run the power station throughout its 60-year operation.
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Redrow is a leading, premium housebuilder dedicated to giving people a better way to live.
For nearly 50 years, we have been creating high quality homes and communities for our customers, building over 100,000 homes across the country.
Key to our success are the many talented people working in every department across the business who are committed to excellence. We encourage them all to grow and maximise their potential by working with like-minded people who share their vision and values.
Barratt Developments is Britain’s largest and best-known housebuilder, having built 17,243 homes last year. With a vision to lead the future of housebuilding by putting customers at the heart of everything it does, Barratt has a clear focus on great design and industry-leading quality. 2021 is the twelfth year Barratt has received a 5 Star rating from its customers in the HBF Customer Satisfaction Survey , a record unmatched by any other major national housebuilder. Also, Barratt site managers received 93 NHBC Pride in the Job Quality Awards, more than any other housebuilder for a record 17 consecutive years.
Barratt strives to leave lasting positive legacies in the communities it creates and is determined to be the leading national sustainable housebuilder. As the first major national housebuilder to set science-based carbon reduction targets, Barratt is working towards all of its homes being zero carbon from 2030. This includes a focus on advanced methods of construction and, through a range of early careers and specialist programmes, ensuring the right skills are in place to deliver the transition to net zero.
We are an organisation committed to world class farming and land management for the environment, food, and rural resilience. We are a voice for farmers and land managers, we encourage sustainable and profitable farming, and are a delivery agency for our sponsor Defra’s (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) 25 Year Environment Plan. (You can read this here)
We work to help agricultural and rural communities to create a better place to live and restore and enhance the environment for the next generation. We do this through the land management initiatives and other rural programmes we are responsible for which help to deliver over £2 billion in payments to farmers, traders and landowners each year.
Having left the EU, we will support farmers and land managers, seeking to place British farming at the forefront of environmental good practice, supporting net zero and enhancing our beautiful natural environment.
Our people are focused on delivering our outcomes and have a collective commitment to how we work according to
St. Modwen is an expert property developer with a rich 30-year history.
We operate across three dedicated business units: St. Modwen Homes, St. Modwen Logistics, and Strategic Land & Regeneration, all of which are active across England and South Wales and aligned to structural growth trends.
St. Modwen has an extraordinary history, with a reputation for looking at things differently and creating opportunities where none existed.
Changing Places. Creating Better Futures.
We lead the way in delivering quality places to live and work that enhance communities and create opportunities for growth and shared returns.
Working with our partners, we have a strong history of creating value for our customers and communities, and we are proud of what we have achieved. We breathe life into places to help create a sustainable future for all. We are ambitious, for ourselves and for our employees. We want St. Modwen to be a place of inspiration, advancement and recognition for everyone who works, or wants to work, for us. We have a culture of empowerment, accountability and supportiveness, and have focused on creating an environment where people can work collaboratively, take pride in their work, and progress in their career.
Estates services staff look after NHS buildings and the grounds around them so they are a safe and pleasant environment for our staff and patients.
Like any buildings, NHS sites need repairs and regular maintenance. As the needs of the NHS change, existing buildings need to be extended or renovated and new sites built. The fabric of the building needs to be looked after – walls, floors and windows – as well as the systems inside them – heating, power and ventilation. All this work needs skilled staff, often from the construction sector.
Sellafield Ltd is a global centre for nuclear engineering management. We pioneered the harnessing of nuclear power to generate electricity for the country. Now the world is watching as we set international standards in high-hazard reduction. In short, we’re at the forefront of the industry.
IGD (Institute of Grocery Distribution) is an organisation of two interconnected communities. Our Trading company uses in-depth commercial understanding to uncover rich insights and data, leading to action that powers success. We reinvest our profit into delivering Social Impact, through the Charity, aimed at uniting and mobilising our industry around the most crucial issues affecting society and business. We connect, collaborate and inspire, provoking and leading constructive debate that creates tangible impact. Join our communities and find out more about our people, our work, our customers and how we can help power success for you and your business at www.igd.com.
Anglian Water supply water and water recycling services to more than six million domestic and business customers in the east of England and Hartlepool. Our services are at the heart of every single family and community in our region. We clean water to the highest standard, deliver it to millions of homes, and carefully manage it to ensure it never runs out. We’re the largest water and water recycling company in England and Wales by geographic area. We’re also one of the driest regions in the country, with just 600 millimetres of rain each year, on average a third less than the rest of England. In fact some areas have a lower annual rainfall than Jerusalem. That’s why it’s vital that we look after the water that we’ve got.
Balfour Beatty is a leading international infrastructure group. With 26,000 employees, we provide innovative and efficient infrastructure that underpins our daily lives, supports communities and enables economic growth. We finance, develop, build and maintain complex infrastructure such as transportation, power and utility systems, social and commercial buildings.
Ørsted’s vision is a world that runs entirely on green energy. We develop, construct and operate offshore and onshore wind farms, solar farms and energy storage facilities, bioenergy plants and provide energy products to our customers. A decade ago, we initiated our transformation from a black to a green energy company as DONG Energy. Since then, we’ve reduced our coal consumption by 91% and decided to fully phase out coal in 2023. We’ve become a global leader in offshore wind and have installed enough capacity to power more than 19 million people. Our ambition is to raise this number to 30 million by 2025. By 2030, our ambition is to have installed approx. 50 GW of renewable energy capacity. In 2017, we divested our upstream oil and gas business, thereby completing our transformation to become fully dedicated to green energy. Our transformation means that we’ve become too green for our name. DONG, originally short for Danish Oil and Natural Gas, is no longer an accurate description of who we are, or who we want to be. So now we’re Ørsted. Learn more about our history as DONG Energy on linkedin.com/DONGEnergy
City Farm Systems produce the most commercially viable and sustainable facilities for the growing of the most perishable and hardest to transport fresh produce.
With current suppliers saying it can take 500miles and 3 days to get bagged salads to the retailer. Leading retailers say 60% of bagged salad ends up wasted. With a City Farm Systems installation they could give those 3 days to the consumer.
The savings we can offer are enormous – no transport, less packaging and lower costs and pollution.
We are the UK’s biggest water and sewerage company with around 15 million customers across London and the Thames Valley. You would be joining a company with an amazing history and an exciting future. We provide clean and take away waste water for almost 25 per cent of the UK population every day – that’s more than 11,000 Olympic size swimming pools worth of clean water and 16,000 pools of waste. We will not compromise on standards which is why we carry out more than 400,000 tests per year on our drinking water. We continue to invest and this year will be spending more than £1 billion to improve our networks and infrastructure – our pipes, sewerage treatment and clean water treatment plants, which are some of the biggest and most advanced sites in Europe. And we will spend the same again next year in our challenge to make sure that if our customers had a choice, they would choose Thames Water. Planning for the future is a key part of our strategy and we already generate enough electricity to power more than 55,000 homes. We also understand the importance of speaking to our youngest customers through our sustainability and education programs in schools and effectively manage and maintain a number of nature reserves. Above all this, Thames Water values its staff as number one and we can now look forward to welcoming you to our team.
Gatwick Airport is the UK’s second largest airport and the most efficient single-runway airport in the world. It serves more than 228 destinations in 74 countries for over 46 million passengers a year on short and long-haul point-to-point services. It is also a major economic driver for the UK contributing £5.3 billion to national GDP and generating 85,000 jobs nationally, with around 24,000 on the wider airport campus alone. The airport is south of Central London with excellent public transport links, including the Gatwick Express, and is part of the Oyster contactless payment network. Gatwick has recently embarked on an exciting new phase with VINCI Airports having completed the purchase of a 50.01% stake in the airport. Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) continues to manage the remaining 49.99% interest. The new partnership promises continued investment to put passengers at the heart of Gatwick’s future plans.
John Sisk & Son Ltd (“Sisk”) is an innovative, international, engineering and construction company. It is a progressive business with long term vision, operating since 1859. Sisk is Ireland’s No1 provider of construction services with extensive operations across Ireland, the United Kingdom and mainland Europe.
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Richard Parks – Community Education Team @ Anglian Water
Worked for Anglian Water for over 9 years in the Community Education Team. What this involves has changed over the years but ranges from running lessons in primary schools showing how we clean over 1.2 billion litres of water every day and recycle a billion litres of sewage. Working with Secondary students to improve their key skills which they need for the world of work and preparing students for life in work. I like to say I know a little bit about all aspects of the company and have students I have worked with have been directly employed by the company. The drive is always looking to the future and Anglian Water has pledged to become net zero by 2030 and all employees will need to do their bit to get us there.
Sajni Vekaria – Environmental and Sustainability Graduate @ Balfour Beatty
Hi! I’m Sajni, an Environmental and Sustainability graduate at Balfour Beatty, specifically within the Highways business unit! I work alongside the Head of Environment and Sustainability, analysing the ways in which we can reduce the embodied carbon and incorporate PAS2080 across our highway’s projects.
Cerise – Commercial Apprentice @ EDF Energy, Hinkley Point C Project
Hi, I am Cerise and am on the Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management Degree Scheme, working on Hinkley Point C based in the South West. The way in which my scheme works means that I rotate throughout different parts of the business- this supports my learning and professional exposure, this can range from Contract Management to Procurement to Risk Management and more. At the end of my scheme, I will look to be completing my chartership with the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
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