Associate Director – Sustainability and Climate Change | WA Lead

Work with a top-tier, global leader in the pure play engineering consulting field as a sustainability lead on city shaping building and infrastructure projects.

• Work on city-shaping, major infrastructure projects.
• Join a team of experts that thrive on a challenge and unconventional thinking.
• Flexible/family-friendly hours, including supportive working from home environment.

The opportunity: 

Due to anticipated growth resulting from a strong pipeline of work being secured, we are currently looking to engage a Associate Director – Sustainability and Climate Change to join our Perth office.

We are looking for someone that is a natural leader, someone who is interested to be involved across all aspects of sustainability consultancy from developing a high-performance local team, leading strategic bids and business development activities, as well as high level conceptual project strategies to delivering against defined requirement to verifying performance outcomes in operation. This candidate would also have demonstrated experience in project leadership, project management, financial management and people management skills in a sustainability or other consulting field.

Your new colleagues:

The Sustainability team within WSP is globally synonymous for prolific creativity and innovation. We have dedicated Sustainability teams established in some of the world's most progressive marketplaces for sustainable buildings and infrastructure.

Our Australian team consists of over 60 consultants, and we come from a diverse background including engineers, architects, renewable energy specialists, environmental scientists, and economists. We work across all WSP’s sectors including projects like Kangaroo Point Green Bridge, rail and stations, roads, precincts, renewable energy projects, water sector projects and many other nationally significant projects. Our clients are private, government, not for profits and institutional.

The Australian Sustainability team delivers high performance building design as well as sustainable urban infrastructure and precinct solutions. Responding to regulatory drivers is important; and a smart, competent approach to delivering our client’s voluntary certification needs is essential.  We place a very high value upon those who strive to push boundaries and maintain a leading edge, channelling their curiosity into developing progressive solutions to their complex issues, all the while applying out of the box thinking. 

We incorporate best practice environmental design into all our projects. We influence strategic design decisions and organisational outcomes. We aim to grow our team with individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds as we believe that this will offer a selection of talents, skills and experiences which benefits our team through creativity, greater innovation, and the offer of a range of perspectives and ideas.

You will sit in our Sustainable Infrastructure and Precincts team, working on our biggest, most complex, and highest ambition sustainability projects, working across rail, road, energy, water, precincts, defence projects from early business case phase, design, construction and operational phases.

A typical day for you:

• Providing oversight and guidance of deliverables for medium and large-scale projects.
•  Providing guidance and management to our WA Team to achieve high performance outcomes for our people, projects, and clients.
•  Contributing to and guiding project planning, project management, budgeting, and controls.
• Developing and maintaining relationships with clients
• Establishing and maintaining WSP’s leadership position in the WA Sustainability Sector.
• Applying a deep understanding of sustainability/ESD principles to solve complex problems, particularly on decarbonization of infrastructure assets.
• Producing, reviewing, and QA’ing designs and reports to meet client requirements for projects.
• Leading and delivering client meetings and workshops.

What we'll love about you:

•  Bachelor of Engineering, environmental science, or equivalent sustainability related discipline.
• Extensive industry experience as a Sustainability Consultant or similar role, preferably in the infrastructure sector.
• Experience with best practice standards relating to decarbonisation (such as PAS2080, IS Ratings and other bespoke tools and frameworks)
• Experienced with guiding, reviewing, and undertaking technical analysis covering various aspects of sustainability, such as, energy, water and waste modelling; climate resilience and life-cycle analysis.
•  Ability to use complex theoretical knowledge and experience of engineering/scientific principles to analyse, interpret and conclude project requirements and challenges.
• Passionate about developing solutions for a low carbon, sustainable built environment,
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

About WSP

WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms, bringing together approximately 5,000 talented people across 14 offices in Australia. We are technical experts who design and provide strategic advice on sustainable solutions and engineer Future ReadyTM projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come. wsp.com/au

Our vibrant workplace culture is an important part of what makes this a great place to work. As a leader in WSP, you will have the opportunity to influence and contribute to our social and community initiatives while collaborating with your colleagues to make a positive impact on people’s lives. You will also enjoy the rewarding experience of mentoring younger professionals and seeing them succeed and progress in their careers over time.

WSP prioritises the health and wellbeing of our people by offering flexible working, 12 months parental leave, opportunities for global mobility, purchased additional leave, and a competitive salary among many more benefits designed to help you thrive.

We are committed to providing an inclusive and equal opportunity workplace. We promote Indigenous voices and are actively delivering a ‘Stretch’ level Reconciliation Action Plan. We are a Workplace Gender Equality Agency Employer of Choice, support the LGBTQI+ community, and encourage all employees to bring their whole selves to work.

Think this could be the opportunity for you? Apply now to begin your journey with WSP.

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