Work with a top-tier, global leader in the pure play engineering consulting field as a sustainability project consultant 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.
Project Consultant - Sustainability
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.
About WSP:
WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms, bringing together approximately 54,000 talented people globally, including 6,100 based across more than 50 offices in Australia and New Zealand. We are technical experts who design and provide strategic advice on sustainable solutions, and future ready engineering projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come. www.wsp.com/en-au/
The opportunity:
Due to anticipated growth resulting from a strong pipeline of work being secured, we are currently looking to engage a Design or Project Consultant - Sustainability to join our Brisbane office.
We are looking for someone that is interested to be involved across all aspects of sustainability consultancy from developing high level conceptual project strategies to delivering against defined requirement to verifying performance outcomes in operation.
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:
- Handling deliverables for medium scale projects or parts of larger projects;
- Contributing to project planning, project management, budgeting and controls;
- Liaising with clients and suppliers to develop project briefings and sourcing information;
- Applying a deep understanding of sustainability/ESD principles to solve complex problems, particularly on decarbonization of infrastructure assets;
- Producing designs and reports to meet client requirements for projects, and;
- Present at and contribute to client meetings and workshops.
What we'll love about you:
- Bachelor of Engineering, environmental science or equivalent sustainability related discipline;
- Experience in the sustainability industry 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)
- Ideally experience with or confidence to undertake technical analysis covering various aspects, such as, energy, water and waste modelling; climate resilience and life-cycle analysis.;
- Ability to use basic theoretical knowledge of engineering/scientific principles to analyse, interpret and conclude project requirements and challenges;
- Passionate about developing solutions for a low carbon, sustainable built environment, and;
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
We value your employee experience:
At WSP we provide a diverse and inclusive work environment and offer many personal and professional development opportunities that are aimed to help you deliver your best self to the role whilst managing your personal life in balance. We have been recognised for the second consecutive year as a Great Place to Work® with year-on-year increases in employee engagement.
Some of the many benefits we offer our employees include:
- Flexible/family-friendly working hours and working from home;
- Global mobility;
- Parental leave and purchased additional annual leave;
- Corporate employee discounts and offers;
- Salary continuance insurance;
- Wellness at work and social club;
- Workplace giving/volunteering;
- Employee reward and recognition program, and;
- Professional and technical development opportunities.
Inspired by diversity, driven by inclusion:
Discover a forward-thinking culture that incorporates some conventional yet non-negotiable qualities—like respect, integrity and trust. We welcome to the table all perspectives, strengths, skills, creeds and genders because we know that diverse ideas breed extraordinary results.
WSP supports a diverse and inclusive work environment as well as equal employment opportunities. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and people of culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.
Please note we will not be engaging the services of recruitment agencies for this role.