Careers

LUC offers a wide range of routes into our professions. Whether you are looking for a student summer placement, an apprenticeship, a graduate role, or a career change, we will provide a comprehensive structure of support and development tailored to your needs and aspirations.

Whatever stage you are at in your career, we can offer the right amount of professional and intellectual challenge, with a framework of learning and development opportunities to support you. This could be keeping you up to date and confident with the technological advances in our sector, building your knowledge and experience of a wide range of work, or achieving further qualifications and professional recognition.

On a day to day basis you will be working alongside some of the most accomplished professionals in our fields, on high profile, challenging projects. The experience you will gain in the course of your work is incomparable.

We will provide a clear framework for discussing with your manager what is needed for you to progress or achieve promotion and we advocate a transparent decision-making process. We understand that sometimes ‘progress’ means getting the timing right for you. Or exploring a new work area. Some of our most innovative work comes from supporting people in pursuing their passions.

We have designed our benefits package to offer our people a great blend of options aligned to our shared values. Our emphasis is on practical policies supporting wellbeing and sustainable choices, with flexibility to cater for different ages, stages and priorities.

LUC is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and safe working space for all employees. Our overall aim is to provide fair and consistent support to all employees enabling them to feel respected and valued during their LUC career. We listen to our people so we understand their experiences and what they need. We ask them about belonging and inclusion and we act on their feedback. We are constantly striving to be better. 

Our Charter explains why our heritage is important to us and how we, the employee owners, want the business to be run in the future.

LUC was created to tackle the toughest issues of sustainable development that balance the needs of communities and the environment. It remains our mission to deliver better futures for nature, people and places.