Graduate AI and Automation Analyst

Align Property Services is creating a brand-new Graduate AI & Automation Analyst role to help shape how artificial intelligence and automation are used across our business.

We're looking for someone who is genuinely enthusiastic about AI, with a natural curiosity for how emerging technologies can be applied in practical ways to improve how people and organisations work.

This is a unique opportunity to join an award-winning, multidisciplinary property consultancy and play an active part in improving efficiency, productivity and digital capability across our teams. With clients at the core of our approach, you'll contribute directly to the successful delivery of projects, ensuring exceptional client experiences and reinforcing our position as a leading consultancy.

This role has been created to identify practical opportunities for AI and automation, support the rollout of Microsoft 365 Copilot and related tools, and help develop internal solutions that make every day work simpler, faster and more consistent. You'll work closely with colleagues across the business, gaining hands-on experience in applied AI, digital improvement and change delivery.

As a wholly owned subsidiary of North Yorkshire Council, we're one of the largest and most respected building design consultancies in the North of England. Our collaborative, forward thinking team delivers a wide range of services, including:

• Mechanical & Electrical Engineering
• Civil, Structural, Highways & Drainage Engineering
• Architecture & Sustainability
• Building Surveying & Project Management
• Quantity Surveying & CDM
• Transport Planning, Bridges & Estate Management

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Further information and project case studies can be found on our website and in our quarterly newsletter

The Opportunity

As a Graduate AI & Automation Analyst, working closely with our colleagues the Technology and Change team at North Yorkshire Council and our department leads, you'll support the identification, testing and rollout of AI tools, internal agents and automated workflows that deliver real business value. This is a development role, designed to help you build capability through practical experimentation, guided delivery and collaboration with experienced professionals, external specialists and our AI working group.

You'll focus on how AI can be used responsibly and effectively in a professional services environment, helping teams reduce repetitive tasks, improve quality and make better use of knowledge and data to improve the service and project delivery for all our clients.

The type of early work you may be involved in is helping to build internal AI tools that support quality assurance of technical documents, structure photographic and survey evidence into draft outputs for review, compare contractor quotations against agreed schedules or benchmarks, and identify inconsistencies or omissions in project information so these can be checked by qualified staff.

What You'll Be Doing

• Working with department heads to understand current processes and identify opportunities for AI and automation
• Supporting the rollout and adoption of Microsoft 365 Copilot and approved AI tools
• Helping design, test and refine internal AI agents, prompts and workflows
• Capturing feedback, measuring benefits and supporting wider adoption across the business
• Producing clear documentation, guidance and basic training materials
• Supporting responsible, secure and well-governed use of AI

• A graduate (or equivalent capability) with a strong interest in AI, automation and digital improvement
• Confident using Microsoft 365 tools in a professional environment
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to break down business processes
• Clear communicator who can explain ideas to non-technical colleagues
• Organised, curious and keen to learn in a fast-evolving area

Experience with AI tools, Copilot, automation, scripting or digital projects is welcome, but enthusiasm, logic and a willingness to learn are just as important.

• A new, evolving role where you can genuinely shape how AI is used in the organisation
• Exposure to real business challenges, not theoretical exercises
• Supportive graduate development within a growing consultancy
• The chance to build in-demand skills in applied AI, automation and business change

When you join Align, you will join a team of professionals who feel rewarded for the work they do. Operating in a friendly and professional environment, we want to provide the training and resources to succeed and thrive in your role. Our people are not just numbers, everyone is crucial to the vital services we provide, and we treat everyone in our teams with respect and complete support.

In return for your commitment, we offer:

• A Competitive salary up to £40,000 per year, dependent on your skills and experience.
• Enrolment on to a company pension scheme which we will contribute up to 6%.
• 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays, with opportunity to purchase up to 10 additional annual leave days per leave year.
• Professional development through varying project work. A benefits scheme which includes a good maternity leave package, cycle2work scheme and our online voucher portal giving access to discounts from leading retailers to help you
• on shopping, days out, or nights in.
• Access to Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme and Counselling Service.
• Stability in your role - public sector security in a private sector industry.

This role is ideal for someone at the start of their career who wants to build practical, future-facing digital skills while making a visible impact in a professional consultancy environment!