Graduate Environmental Engineer – Air Quality (2026 start)

About the role

Tonkin + Taylor’s Air Quality team is seeking a Graduate Chemical Engineer to start in 2026. The role offers hands‑on experience in environmental engineering, focusing on air quality, odour, dust and emissions across a range of industrial and infrastructure projects in New Zealand.

Key responsibilities

• Learn how industrial processes generate air emissions, including dust, odour, combustion gases and volatile compounds.
• Assist in estimating emissions from manufacturing sites, wastewater treatment plants, quarries, landfills, energy facilities and infrastructure projects.
• Support air dispersion modelling to predict how emissions travel and affect nearby communities and environments.
• Analyse monitoring, meteorological and process data to identify trends, verify compliance and inform technical assessments.
• Contribute to odour, dust and air‑quality assessments for resource consent applications and operational management plans.
• Visit sites to gather first‑hand information and support field data collection.

Required profile

• Recent graduate (or final‑year) in Chemical & Process Engineering or Chemical & Materials Engineering.
• Curious, analytical and eager to learn about industrial and environmental systems.
• Strong interest in practical problem‑solving and delivering outcomes for clients, communities and the environment.

Required skills

• Air dispersion modelling
• Odour and dust assessment
• Ambient air quality monitoring
• Emissions estimation
• Data analysis
• Technical reporting