# Senior Sustainability Consultant

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Perth, Western Australia
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Join WSP as a Senior Sustainability Consultant in Perth, Western Australia, and work on city-shaping building and infrastructure projects. As a sustainability lead, you will advise clients on best practice sustainability outcomes, apply a deep understanding of sustainability principles to solve complex problems, and lead cross-discipline coordination to ensure sustainability integration in design outcomes.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Advising clients on best practice sustainability outcomes through delivery of rating tools, such as Infrastructure Sustainability Council’s IS Ratings and Green Building Council’s Green Star Ratings.

- Applying a deep understanding of sustainability/ESD principles to solve complex problems, particularly on decarbonisation of infrastructure assets;

- Undertaking technical sustainability assessments, including climate change and resilience, energy, carbon and water modelling.

- Leading cross-discipline coordination to ensure sustainability integration in design outcomes, as well as implementation of treatment and adaptation measures;

- Providing leadership and management of deliverables for medium and large-scale projects;

- Contributing to the development and expertise of our Perth 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 Perth Sustainability Sector;

- Producing, reviewing and QA’ing designs and reports to meet client requirements for projects, and;

- Leading and delivering client meetings and workshops.

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor of Engineering or equivalent sustainability related discipline;

- 6+ years’ industry experience as a Sustainability Consultant or similar role, preferably in the infrastructure sector;

- Experience with best practice certification schemes, such as ISC IS ratings, with Green Star preferred.

- Demonstrated experience in project leadership on small and medium scale sustainability focused projects.

- 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, and;

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills;

**Benefits:**

- Flexible/family-friendly hours, including supportive working from home environment.

- An employee Share Purchase Plan is available to all our permanent employees who wish to become owners and vested partners in WSP’s collective success.

- Develop your professional network (locally, nationally and globally) through various initiatives.

- Develop your personal brand through targeted training.

- Develop your business understanding and awareness through various procedures.

- 12 months parental leave, opportunities for global mobility, purchased additional leave, and competitive remuneration

## Skills

### Required
- sustainability
- ESD principles
- project leadership
- project management
- technical analysis
- energy modelling
- water modelling
- waste modelling
- climate resilience
- life-cycle analysis
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- Green Star
- ISC IS ratings

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