Senior / Principal Consultant – Minerals and Waste
WSP in the UK & Ireland
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Job summary
WSP in the UK & Ireland is seeking a Senior or Principal Consultant to lead planning and environmental inputs for minerals and waste projects across the UK. You will manage multi-disciplinary teams, guide strategy from feasibility to design, and engage with clients, regulators, and stakeholders to deliver high-quality outputs.
The role emphasizes business development, project leadership, and financial management within a nationwide team.
Qualifications
- Excellent communication and report-writing abilities demonstrated in a multi-disciplinary context.
- Proven ability to collaborate across teams to deliver high-quality outputs.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship-building with clients and regulators.
- Solid understanding of UK planning processes and environmental assessment expectations.
Responsibilities
- Support colleagues across WSP on minerals and waste planning and environmental inputs.
- Contribute to bidding, project management, and delivery within budgets and timelines.
- Lead multi-disciplinary inputs from strategy through feasibility to detailed design and assessment.
- Interface with clients, regulators, engineers, and consultation leads as required.
- Represent WSP to key stakeholders and maintain high-quality project outputs.
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Job description
We have an exciting opportunity to join the minerals and waste specialists in our successful and growing nationwide team. This post represents a challenging and exciting opportunity to contribute, manage and deliver planning and environmental inputs to a range of projects for a wide client base. This includes projects to be consented under both the Town and Country Planning Act regime, but also the Planning Act 2008. Our projects are varied in nature and at the leading edge of professional practice, so this is a great opportunity to use your experience to develop your career and help guide and shape our continued growth.
We have an exciting opportunity to join the minerals and waste specialists in our successful and growing nationwide team. This post represents a challenging and exciting opportunity to contribute, manage and deliver planning and environmental inputs to a range of projects for a wide client base. This includes projects to be consented under both the Town and Country Planning Act regime, but also the Planning Act 2008. Our projects are varied in nature and at the leading edge of professional practice, so this is a great opportunity to use your experience to develop your career and help guide and shape our continued growth.
This is a role which 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 . We need people with creative spirit, a dedicated approach and a solid grounding in environmental design, assessment and management at any stage of the development project lifecycle.
We’re looking for individuals who are passionate about delivering effective advice and positively influencing the performance of minerals and waste development management and planning projects.
As either a Senior Consultant or Principal 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.
The role would suit an enthusiastic individual looking to influence, manage and deliver environmental elements across a range of projects. You will have responsibility for managing projects including tasks relating to bidding, project team management, project delivery, and financial management.
- Supporting colleagues across the WSP business in providing clients with the appropriate technical and consenting advice in relation to minerals and waste elements of our portfolio.
- Supporting colleagues across the WSP business with the minerals and waste aspects of other types of projects – most notably, the provision of minerals/ materials and waste impact assessments in support of a range of development projects (residential projects; major infrastructure projects etc).
- Management of projects and maintaining budgets to deliver high quality outputs to meet both internal and client requirements.
- Interface 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.
- A degree (or equivalent) in Town Planning or relevant discipline.
- Membership of the RTPI or other relevant body e.g. Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA); Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (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, to deliver carefully considered solutions to produce high quality work.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, clients, suppliers, and industry.
Work on landmark projects around the world and embrace opportunities to make an even bigger impact in the communities you care about. What if you could do the best work of your life and create a legacy for yourself?
We are one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Our passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion. With over 11,000 professionals across the UK and Ireland, we are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower.
At WSP, we understand that work is just one aspect of your life. It’s important to make time for you, your family, friends, interests and your community.
Our hybrid working policy offers the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while also providing opportunities to collaborate in our modern offices across the UK.
We welcome applicants with varied backgrounds and experiences. We enable rewarding careers by encouraging people to bring their whole and authentic selves to work so that our work represents the fullest spectrum of society. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing a culture of inclusion and belonging at WSP. We have our employee resource groups bring together employees and allies with different backgrounds to promote a culture of inclusivity.
We are committed to supporting our people, giving you the tools to make improvements to your health and wellbeing through our Thrive programme.
Our Virtual GP service gives you access to an NHS or Irish Medical Council GP at a time and place that suits you – giving you peace of mind and quick access to medical advice when you need it most. We also provide reasonable workplace adjustments for those in need. Additionally, you can benefit from the Gymflex scheme, which offers up to 40% off annual gym memberships through our WSP flexible benefits program, as well as a comprehensive menopause support package.
To enhance work-life balance, WSP offers the "WSP My Hour," allowing you to take one hour each day for personal activities, with the flexibility to make up the time earlier or later that day.
We also provide part-time and flexible working arrangements, the option to purchase additional leave, and the ability to use your bank holiday entitlement to suit you.
We understand the importance of development and training to you. That’s why we foster a supportive environment that invests in your growth, whether through training, mentoring, or Chartership.
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.
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