Consultant / Senior Consultant - Groundwater Diffuse Pollution

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Job Description

We are WSP - Join us and make your career future ready!

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YOUR NEW ROLE, WHAT'S INVOLVED?

We are looking to grow our established team of Water Quality and Catchment Management specialists so that we can continue to deliver sustainable solutions to the water sector and environmental regulators in the UK and help protect the water environment.

The role will include the following:

• Water quality data analysis, conceptualisation and visualisation and clear communication
• Carrying out desk-based investigations / interpretation of datasets
• Helping to design field monitoring campaigns including traditional and non-traditional approaches
• Delivery of technical reports and presentations to clients
• Feeding into winning new work and helping write proposals for new projects
• Project and task management
• Being a key member of our water quality team in Sustainable Water Management

You will be mainly UK based, but will work collaboratively with teams across WSP's global business. So, being able to work effectively as part of a diverse team, as well as individually for discrete tasks, is very important to us.

YOUR TEAM

Our Sustainable Water Management team works across a spectrum of services covering water quality and catchment management water resources and security, hydrology and hydraulics, geomorphology, hydroecology and hydrogeology. We provide high quality technical services and advice to high-profile customers in the UK and overseas, including government departments and agencies, the water industry, and industrial sectors, including power, transport, nuclear, mining, commercial and oil and gas.

We offer a dynamic, but supportive environment for a motivated and talented individual to fulfil their potential. We recognise that our people are central to our success as a business. As a consequence, we are committed to a providing a comprehensive framework for the professional development of our staff, including:

• Access to extensive internal and external training opportunities;
• Supporting for volunteering;
• A mentoring programme; and
• Support for gaining chartership through professional institutions.

This position is UK flexible, although our main offices for SWM teams are Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Cardiff, Manchester, Shrewsbury, London, Bristol or Glasgow offices and you will be able to benefit from hybrid office-home working.

WE'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE

• Degree-level qualifications in a relevant subject (e.g. geography, geology, geochemistry, earth/environmental science, civil engineering or similar)
• A higher degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. hydrogeology, water management, environmental science, or similar), is desirable, but not essential
• Prior work experience, either postdoctoral or in consultancy or working in the water sector (regulator or industry)
• You should have excellent analytical skills, and be able to apply them to analysing problems and finding solutions to novel challenges
• Experience in use of MS Office tools (Word, Teams, Excel, Access, Powerpoint) and use of GIS packages, such as ArcGIS or QGIS
• You will collaborate effectively as part of a team and be able to work independently with some steer
• You will demonstrate excellent communication skills, being able to write clearly and / or communicate ideas through visualisations

With a background in earth sciences and knowledge of water quality and geochemistry / environmental chemistry you should be aware of the UK position with regard to:

• How groundwater is protected through the WFD and regulatory tools (source protection zones, safeguard zone, water protection zones, NVZs etc.);
• The main pressures acting on groundwater quality and resources.

You should have an interest in problem solving through interrogation of time series and spatial datasets, good conceptualisation skills and understand the important of source pathway receptor models and be able to clearly communicate ideas either through your writing or visualisations. An awareness of how groundwater and surface water interact would also be useful.

Field experience including sampling network design, risk assessment before field work, and data collation and interpretation (for river and / or groundwater sampling and monitoring) would also be beneficial and some knowledge of catchment management / agri-environment schemes.

About Us

We are WSP - Join us and make your career future ready!

In today's world it's important to work for a company that has clear purpose, giving back to communities and supporting what is truly important in the world.

When considering a career move its vital to work for a business that is aligned to your values and goals, a place where you can belong.

To find out more about our business click on the following link and discover what awaits you at WSP: Who We Are | WSP

WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

Work-life balance?

WSP recognises that work is only one part of your life and making time for other things is important - whether that's for your families, friends, or yourself.

Our hybrid working policy allows the flexibility to work from the comfort of your own home as well as collaborating in our contemporary offices across the UK.

Inclusivity & Diversity?

We want our people to achieve rewarding careers, bringing their whole selves to work. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing diversity to create a culture of inclusion and belonging at WSP.

Our employee resource groups VIBE (LGBTQ+ employees), CREED (Championing Racial Equality and Ethnic Diversity) and our Gender Balance Group, in tandem with WSP's Neurodiverse Community Group, WSP Connect Group (visible and non-visible disabilities) help us promote the right environment for you to reach your full potential.

Health & Wellbeing?

We are committed to supporting our people, giving you the tools to make improvements to your health and wellbeing through our Thrive programme.

Med24 gives you and your family unrestricted telephone access to an NHS doctor where you can call day or night or have a face-to-face video consultation.

Flex your time?

For improved work life balance, WSP offers the "WSP Hour" which enables you to take one hour per day to do as you wish and make up the time earlier or later that day. We also offer part time and flexible working arrangements plus the option to flex your bank holiday entitlement to suit you.

Your development?

We appreciate that development and training is important to you and that's why we have a supportive environment that invests in your development, whether that's chartership, training or mentoring.

APPLY NOW AND BE THE FUTURE OF WSP!

#WeAreWSP

Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.

Please note WSP reserves the right to close the vacancy before the advertised closing date.