# Associate Arboriculturist

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

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## Description

As an Associate Arboricultural Consultant at WSP, you'll join a collaborative, multidisciplinary team delivering innovative arboricultural solutions for clients across the UK.

You'll combine senior technical delivery, commercial leadership, people development, and client growth, helping build a sustainable national arboriculture and forestry offer integrated with the wider Nature Services business.

**Responsibilities:**

- Direct complex arboricultural commissions, ensuring quality, budget, programme, and client requirements are met.

- Develop and review technical approaches for BS5837, EIA, DCO/NSIP, veteran/ancient tree, and construction-stage deliverables.

- Support people managers in developing career pathways, mentoring arrangements, and technical training.

- Build relationships with clients, authorities, industry bodies, and internal disciplines to generate work and create value.

- Drive best practice, QA consistency, knowledge management, and continuous improvement across the team.

**Requirements:**

- Substantial arboricultural consultancy experience with a record of leading complex projects.

- Track record in major infrastructure, DCO/NSIP, EIA, public sector frameworks, or expert evidence.

- Strong technical review capability and ability to communicate complex information clearly.

- Commercial confidence in pricing, scope management, project controls, and risk/opportunity management.

- Experience mentoring and developing others, including identifying skills gaps and training needs.

- Ability to support work winning and maintain strong client relationships.

**Benefits:**

- Impactful work on nationally significant and locally important projects.

- Help shape a growing national business and contribute to strategic decision-making.

- Open, supportive, and inclusive culture where development is a priority.

- Clear progression, mentoring, and professional development.

- Access executive-level development, leadership coaching, and business management training.

- Annual training budget aligned with your personal goals.

- Flexible/hybrid working arrangements aligned to project needs.

- Paid membership of a relevant professional body, WSP treats, and pension contributions.

## Skills

### Required
- arboricultural consultancy
- project management
- technical review
- commercial management
- mentoring
- client relationships

### Nice to have
- Chartered status
- MArborA
- MICFor
- CEnv
- ecology
- landscape
- biodiversity net gain
- climate resilience
- GIS
- digital advisory

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