Senior Environmental Planner

WSP • Full-time • Noida, Uttar Pradesh • 1w ago

Responsibilities

Undertake tasks associated with lodging applications for resource consent eg, public consultation, considering issues, identifying a regulatory way forward; Prepare and process resource consent applications, assessment of environmental effects, notice of requirements and outline plans.
Undertake statutory assessments within the context of relevant plans and legislations; Assist with and undertake community engagement on behalf of clients.
Provide input into the planning of infrastructure and civil engineering projects and assist project managers with project scoping with appropriate inputs, outputs and verification activities.
Demonstrate sound knowledge of resource management planning and formulate advices for clients on resource management plans and policies; Produce innovative and original resource management planning outcomes that are well thought through; Distil information into recommendations regarding next steps.
Contribute to planning advice and input to Initial and Detailed Business Cases for transport projects, including Multi-Criteria Analysis scoping, plan reviews, and business case writing support.
Work within multi-disciplinary teams, advising them of potential inter-dependencies and interactions between specialist areas, identifying where a change in one area might impact another (e.g. ecology and air quality).
Write fact-based reports with objective assessment of proposed developments (and its potential impacts) in relation to government (central and local) policies and plans.
Have a good appreciation of relevant legislation and maintains knowledge of appropriate technical standards, legislation, codes of practice and New Zealand norms.
Promote best practice within the team and individual projects; Provide technical and operational support to others within the Environment Team.

Required Skills and Behaviours

Fluent in spoken and written English and able to present ideas, complex technical information and advice in a way that is understandable to a wide range of audiences.
Excellent analytical skills with the ability to collate and comprehend data from multiple disparate sources; Strong GIS skills and able to present complex geo-spatial insights.
Able to identify mitigation measures that would reduce potential negative impacts and enhance potential beneficial impacts.
Able to work effectively and competently with people at all levels; within and external to the organisation; Able to work collaboratively and perform effectively as part of a team across a geographically spread matrix structure.
Model WSP Guiding Principles.
Client centric and passionate about service excellence.
Be a team player and consider the views of others.
Ensures that confidentiality is respected and maintained at all times; Consistently demonstrates trustworthiness, integrity, professionalism and honesty.
Able to optimise and prioritise conflicting demands in a busy environment, to achieve deadlines and see responsibilities through to completion; Resilient, comfortable with change and ambiguity.
Be results orientated, with a reputation for being focussed on key strategic priorities; Display drive, energy and enthusiasm for getting things done with high levels of motivation and energy; Project credibility demonstrate professionalism and inspire confidence with high emotional intelligence and self-awareness of strengths and potential areas for development; Active commitment to continuous personal improvement.

Qualifications

Postgraduate Degree in Environmental Planning (eg. from SPAs etc.) or Environmental Engineering/Science (eg. from IITs/NITs/IISc etc.)
Membership of a SocEnv licensed professional organisation like IEMA, CIEEM etc; Chartered status preferred.
Experience of working on overseas (UK/AU/NZ) assignments around Stakeholder Engagements, Environmental & Social Impact Assessments, Consenting and Complinace will be given high preference.

Experience

Minimum of 8 years’ experience post qualification in Environmental & Social Impact Assements and Consenting & Compliance
Demonstrable experience in using ArcGIS or QGIS and insightful, data-based storytelling using PowerBI or R Studio etc.
Experience of working on overseas (UK/AU/NZ) assignments preferred. Strong understanding of the UK model will be highly beneficial.

BGV:

Employment with WSP India is subject to the successful completion of a background verification (“BGV”) check conducted by a third-party agency appointed by WSP India.
Candidates are advised to ensure that all information provided during the recruitment process — including documents uploaded — is accurate and complete, both to WSP India and its BGV partner”.

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