# Associate / Associate Director – Minerals and Waste

**Company**: WSP
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We’re looking for an Associate / Associate Director to join our growing minerals and waste team. This post represents a challenging growth opportunity to direct, manage and deliver minerals and waste inputs to a range of projects for a wide client base.

Our projects are varied in nature and at the leading edge of professional practice, so this is a great opportunity to use your experience to further develop your career and help guide and shape our continued growth.

This is a strategic role with responsibility for winning work, leading projects and shaping our sector growth, working with a diverse client base on complex and high-profile schemes.

### Responsibilities

- Lead and deliver minerals and waste planning projects across the full lifecycle

- Provide expert planning and environmental advice to clients and project teams

- Manage project performance (technical, commercial, H&S and quality)

- Build strong client relationships and support business development activity

- Contribute to bids, frameworks and new opportunities

- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to deliver sustainable outcomes

- Mentor and support colleagues, fostering an inclusive team culture

### Requirements

#### Essential:

- Degree (or equivalent experience) in planning, environmental or related discipline

- Experience delivering minerals and waste projects in the UK

- Strong understanding of UK planning systems and EIA

- Ability to lead projects and manage client relationships

- Excellent communication and report writing skills

- Proven people management experience and a track record of developing and upskilling internal teams.

#### Desirable:

- Chartered or working towards chartership (RTPI, IEMA, RICS or similar)

- Experience in business development and winning work

- Knowledge of emerging policy and stakeholder engagement

### Benefits

You’ll be part of a collaborative, forward-thinking team working on complex, high-impact projects, with opportunities to lead, grow and shape the future of the minerals and waste sector.

## Skills

### Required
- planning
- environmental
- UK planning systems
- EIA
- project management
- client relationships
- communication
- report writing
- people management

### Nice to have
- chartered
- business development
- emerging policy
- stakeholder engagement

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