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Graduate Technical Specialist

Salary: £26 – 35k pa + company benefits
Contract: Permanent, full time (40 hours pw)
Location: Midlands based role with home working, office split depending on location
Start date: ASAP

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Surface water management should be considered from a construction site's pre-planning phase

We are recruiting for a Graduate Technical Specialist to support technical delivery across our consulting, design and project work.

Frog Environmental is a specialist environmental solutions provider focused on protecting water environments.

Our work centres on silt pollution control, surface water management, and the deployment of practical treatment systems on live construction sites. We also design and supply bubble curtain and aeration systems across a range of temporary and permanent applications.

Working with our Technical Director and other senior technical experts, we are seeking a Graduate Technical Specialist to support the team with technical delivery across our consulting, design and project work.

This role is suited to someone who enjoys applying technical expertise to real-world problems and seeing projects through from initial advice to successful delivery and performance verification.

This role is suited to someone at the start of their career who enjoys applying technical knowledge to real-world environmental problems and developing their skills through practical project work.

The role combines technical learning, consulting support, design thinking and project delivery experience. Work may involve site visits, client engagement, technical analysis, supporting project delivery, assisting with training activities and contributing to structured technical reporting.

You will work alongside experienced colleagues to assess environmental risks, develop practical solutions, and help ensure those solutions perform as intended in the field.

This role offers the opportunity to build strong technical foundations while contributing to Frog’s reputation as a technically reliable and trusted partner.

Key responsibilities

The Graduate Technical Specialist supports the conversion of technical knowledge into practical, repeatable value for clients:

Technical support and analysis
Assist with the assessment of construction site environmental risks and support the development of practical strategies for managing silt pollution and surface water.

Project support
Support technical colleagues in delivering projects from initial enquiry through to delivery, assisting with data gathering, documentation, coordination and technical analysis.

System specification support
Assist with specifying water management and treatment approaches, including silt control systems, temporary water treatment systems, bubble curtains and aeration systems.

Client interaction
Develop confidence working with clients by supporting meetings, site visits and technical discussions alongside senior colleagues.

Monitoring, verification and reporting
Support monitoring activities, interpret technical data with guidance from senior staff, and assist in producing clear technical reports.

Training and knowledge sharing
Assist with preparation and delivery of technical training and CPD sessions where appropriate, helping share lessons learned from projects.

Technical development
Build technical understanding of Frog’s systems, approaches and products, while contributing to maintaining accurate and reliable technical information.

Key attributes

Strong academic background in environmental engineering, water management, civil engineering, or a related field.
Interest in environmental protection, surface water management, or water treatment systems.
Ability to apply technical thinking to practical, real-world problems.
Good written and verbal communication skills.
Willingness to work directly with clients and develop confidence in technical discussions.
Professional mindset, curiosity and sound problem-solving ability.
AI and IT savvy, comfortable using digital tools and happy to engage with company social media channels.

What success looks like

You develop strong technical foundations and confidence working on real environmental projects.

You contribute positively to project delivery and produce clear, accurate technical work.

You gain practical experience understanding how environmental systems perform on construction sites.

You develop the judgement and skills needed to take increasing responsibility for technical work over time.

This role suits someone who enjoys combining technical thinking with practical problem solving and is motivated to build a career delivering solutions that protect water environments.

What is it like working for Frog Environmental?

Our benefits

Role benefits:
– Car allowance

Plus our core company benefits:
– 25 days’ annual leave plus 8 bank holidays, and the opportunity to buy an additional 5 days
– Company pension scheme
– Professional subscription reimbursement

Training within the role will be fully supported.

We offer flexibility, wellbeing and work-life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that’s working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Our people are important to us, and we take pride in our wellbeing policies that support individuals including flexible working and mental health.

About our team

With our office and depot based in Staffordshire and home-based technical experts covering the whole of the UK, we are a small but highly motivated team spanning technical, logistics, depot and business administration. Despite working across different locations, we share a common goal – helping customers solve problems and implement proactive solutions that protect the environment while delivering real value.

Although we work in different locations, we make a point of coming together regularly. Frog organises quarterly team get-togethers, from meals out to social walks, giving everyone the chance to connect and spend time together.

We’re committed to supporting communities

We take great pride in contributing to environmental improvements but it is important to us to also create a lasting impact for our people and in our communities too. That’s why we set up the Frog Environmental Community Fund.

The fund is open to staff and associated companies and supports community-focused projects that deliver positive social or environmental outcomes.

We are a diverse, equal and inclusive workplace

As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we have an ambitious diversity, equality and inclusive culture. We believe in each person’s potential and we’re committed to helping you reach yours.

We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment.

Diversity also drives innovation, empowering our workforce and enabling us to offer our clients the highest level of service.

How to apply for this role

Please send your cover letter and CV to us as soon as possible – before 30 March.

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“Thanks to Frog’s technical expertise and insight, we have found new ways to tackle these common issues and improve our site water management practices – from company-wide awareness and training to monitoring and prevention. As a consequence, we have made significant cost savings and lowered our carbon emissions.”

Paul Thomas, Head of Environment
Winvic Construction

“The results (of the bubble curtain) were quite dramatic – in fact, startling… we have a workable solution that we’ve proved has a dramatic impact on noise propagation.”

David McLaren, Site Manager – Marine & Civils
John F Hunt Regeneration

It’s good to see Frog getting involved with GT at the earliest stages of the project to help with planning out water management in advance of needing it.

Galliford Try

I really enjoyed learning how to identify which measures are best suited to the site conditions.

TACP (UK) Ltd

“Frog Environmental were knowledgeable, helping to establish a workable, cost-effective and low maintenance solution for site approved by the regulator. They really understood the water management issues we had on site and worked with us to develop a solution which works, as well as engaging with our operatives to ensure that they could effectively manage the system.

We are delighted to have found a solution that prevents pollution and protects the environment, and ultimately allows us to continue with construction.”

Glenn Entwistle, Senior Environmental Advisor
Advance JV

The surface water system drainage feature utilised innovative solutions from Frog Environmental.

A rain-ready strategy was implemented, which enabled the development of a robust management system capable of effectively managing fluctuations in weather conditions year-round.

This provided a timely, sustainable and cost saving solution for our client.

Anthony Jordan
RSK Geosciences

“The positive impact of your business on the wider industry is incredible. You have upskilled so many of us and definitely improved water quality across UK construction sites!”

Bernadette Anderson, Environmental Manager
VolkerLaser

Frog’s commitment to develop innovative, market-leading strategies to help their construction clients take responsibility for their sites has and is inspiring an industry-wide change in management culture to improve environmental practices. Of note is their “Rain Ready” water treatment system which is setting new benchmarks in environmental excellence.

Brad Griko, VP Operations
Clearflow Group

“The systems were very effective, and we can see how they could be used on other projects. Being able to talk through the scenario with Frog Environmental was really helpful… We were so pleased to be able to proceed with this essential works with no disruption to either wildlife or our workplan, it saved us time, money, and provided peace of mind that we had taken effective steps to protect the environment.”

Huw Williams, Site Agent
Morgan Sindall Infrastructure – Water & Highways

They (Frog Environmental) were efficient in providing advice and the most appropriate product for our project. The team responded promptly to ensure the Bubble Curtain was delivered to the site on schedule.

It has worked well and has been great on site. We are demobilising this week, and the bubble curtain is already in store at our next site for reuse!

Hayley Jackson, Site Agent
Coffey Group

The Kex Gill road realignment scheme is a challenging project with multiple environmental risks including management of silt and water quality of the surrounding environment given the locality of designated sites.

Frog Environmental are providing us with extensive technical support, including the design, supply and install of their silt control products on site to ensure the project minimises risks to the watercourses in the project vicinity and prevents impact on highly sensitive aquatic species.

It’s great to be working with them and we’re delighted with the success of the whole project.