Description
We are seeking a Consultant or Senior Consultant to join our Minerals and Waste team in the UK. This role is of strategic significance for our business and represents a challenging and exciting opportunity to identify, win, and deliver multi-disciplinary inputs influencing the performance of minerals and waste development management and spatial planning projects.
As a Consultant or Senior Consultant, you will collaborate with a diverse team of technical environmental specialists and design professionals to deliver inputs across project lifecycles from early strategy development, through feasibility/optioneering to detailed design and assessment.
Key responsibilities include:
- Supporting colleagues across the WSP business with the minerals and waste aspects of other types of projects
- Managing projects and maintaining budgets to deliver high-quality outputs
- Interfacing with the wider project stakeholders, including the client's engineering team, consultation leads, lawyers, etc.
- Representing WSP and its clients to key stakeholders, regulators, and industry as required
Requirements:
- A degree (or equivalent) in Town Planning or a relevant discipline
- Membership of the RTPI or other relevant body (e.g., IEMA, RICS)
- Experience of contributing to the delivery of minerals and waste projects in the UK
- A good understanding of the UK planning system
- Knowledge of the Environmental Impact Assessment process
- Excellent reporting skills and the ability to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, clients, suppliers, and industry