Associate/ Associate Director Environmental Planner - Onshore Renewables

WSP; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Associate/Associate Director to join their Environmental Planning team. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead onshore renewable projects, including wind and solar, while working closely with multidisciplinary teams. You'll engage with clients and stakeholders, ensuring effective planning and environmental advice is delivered. Join a community of passionate professionals dedicated to making a positive impact in the renewables sector. If you are driven by sustainability and innovation, this role is perfect for you, providing a platform to shape your career and contribute to significant projects across the UK.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering onshore renewables projects in the UK.
• Understanding of the UK planning system and EIA process.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary teams in providing technical advice on renewables.
• Manage projects and budgets to deliver high-quality outputs.

Skills

Environmental Planning

Project Management

Communication Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Collaboration

Education

Degree in Town Planning

Membership of RTPI or IEMA

Job description

Description

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

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.

WSP is a multidisciplinary environmental and engineering company and includes one of the UK’s largest planning and EIA practices. We provide a range of environmental planning and assessment services to public and private sector clients and have a proven track record in securing consents for some of the largest and most complex major development projects in the UK.

A little more about your role…

We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate / Associate Director to join our successful and growing Environmental Planning nationwide team, to lead our work in the onshore renewables sector. This post represents a challenging and exciting opportunity to contribute, manage and deliver environmental planning inputs to a range of projects, principally for onshore wind but to also cover solar, BESS and related developments for a wide client base. Our projects are varied in nature, take place across the whole of the UK and are at the leading edge of professional practice: this is a great opportunity to use your experience to develop your career and help guide and shape our continued growth.

We’re looking for individuals who are passionate about delivering effective planning and environmental advice and positively influencing the performance of renewables development projects.

Your team…

The role will involve working as part of multidisciplinary teams to deliver inputs across project lifecycles from site feasibility works, application compilation and submission through to discharge of conditions in the construction phase of developments. Most notably the work within the team involves:

1. Leading and supporting colleagues across the WSP business in providing clients with the appropriate technical and consenting advice in relation to onshore renewable projects.
2. Management of projects and maintaining budgets to deliver high quality outputs to meet both internal and client requirements.
3. Interface with the wider project stakeholders including the client’s engineering team, consultation leads, lawyers etc.
4. Representing WSP and its clients to key stakeholders, regulators and industry as required.

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…

Experience criteria

1. Experience of contributing to the delivery of onshore renewables projects in the UK.
2. A good understanding of the UK planning system.
3. Knowledge of the Environmental Impact Assessment process.
4. Excellent reporting skills and the ability to work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team, to deliver carefully considered solutions to produce high quality work.
5. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, clients, suppliers, and industry.

Qualifications

1. A degree in Town Planning or relevant discipline.
2. Membership of the RTPI or other relevant body e.g. Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA); Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

If you don’t meet all that we are looking for please still consider applying. Not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need.

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 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

With us, you can.

Apply today.

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