Senior Sustainability Consultant

WSP; Perth; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Work from home environment

Employee Share Purchase Plan

Parental leave

Global mobility

Job summary

WSP Australia in Perth is seeking a Senior Sustainability Consultant to lead sustainability outcomes on city-shaping infrastructure projects. You’ll draw on 6+ years of experience, guide cross-discipline teams, and apply IS Ratings and Green Star insights to complex decarbonisation objectives.

You’ll participate in bids, client workshops and business development while delivering high-quality designs, reports and analyses.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Experience with guiding, reviewing and undertaking technical analysis covering energy, water and waste modelling; climate resilience and life-cycle analysis.
• Ability to use engineering/scientific principles to analyse and interpret project requirements.
• Passionate about developing low carbon, sustainable built environments.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients on sustainability outcomes using IS Ratings and Green Star insights.
• Lead cross-discipline coordination for sustainable design integration.
• Oversee deliverables for medium and large-scale projects.
• Develop and mentor the Perth team to achieve high-performance outcomes.
• Manage project planning, budgeting and controls.
• Build and maintain relationships with clients.
• Lead client meetings and workshops.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Communication

Sustainability expertise

ISC IS ratings knowledge

Education

Bachelor of Engineering

Job description

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?

Work with a top-tier, global leader in the pure play engineering consulting field as a sustainability lead on city shaping building and infrastructure projects.

• Work on city-shaping, major infrastructure projects.
• Join a team of experts that thrive on a challenge and unconventional thinking.
• Flexible/family-friendly hours, including supportive working from home environment.

Due to anticipated growth resulting from a strong pipeline of work being secured, we are currently looking to engage a Senior Sustainability Consultant to join our Perth team.

We are looking for someone that is a natural leader, and it interested to be involved across all aspects of sustainability consultancy from supporting and integrating into a high performance local and national team, leading strategic bids and business development activities, as well as high level conceptual project strategies, to delivering against defined requirements and verifying performance outcomes in operation. This candidate would also have demonstrated experience in project leadership, project management, financial management and people management skills in a sustainability or other consulting field.

The WSP Sustainability team is globally synonymous for prolific creativity and innovation. We have dedicated Sustainability teams established in some of the world's most progressive marketplaces for sustainable buildings and infrastructure.

Our Australian team consists of 40+ consultants, and we come from a diverse background including engineers, architects, renewable energy specialists, environmental scientists and economists. We work across all WSP’s sectors including supporting programs such as Westport and Perth Airport – Airport Central Precinct development, and projects spanning new roads, new rail, new stations, water and urban precinct renewals. Our consultants work across small and large projects nationally, with a wide variety of work to support our clients, including private, government, not for profits and institutional.

Key responsibilities – What you’ll do

• 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.

We incorporate best practice environmental design into all our projects. We influence strategic design decisions and organisational outcomes. We aim to grow our team with individuals from a diverse range of backgrounds as we believe that this will offer a selection of talents, skills and experiences which benefits our team through creativity, greater innovation and the offer of a range of perspectives and ideas.

About You - Required Experience & Skills

• 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;

We place a very high value upon those who strive to push boundaries and maintain a leading edge, channeling their curiosity into developing progressive solutions to their complex issues, all the while applying out of the box thinking.

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 80,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

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. To find out more about our commitment to the health and well-being of our people, and the programs we’ve designed to help you thrive, go to our Employee Benefits page.

• 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.

WSP prioritises the health and wellbeing of our people by offering flexible working, 12 months parental leave, opportunities for global mobility, purchased additional leave, and competitive remuneration among many more benefits designed to help you shine.

We are committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and equal opportunity workplace. We promote Indigenous voices and are actively delivering a ‘Stretch’ level Reconciliation Action Plan. Accredited by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency as an Employer of Choice, we also support the LGBTQI+ community, and encourage all employees to bring their whole selves to work.