Senior Waste & Resources Consultant — Lead Projects & Mentorship

WRC Group; West of England; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life assurance

Flexible benefits

Job summary

WRc Group seeks a Senior Consultant to join the Waste and Resources team in Swindon. This permanent full-time role (37 hours) offers a clear pathway to Principal Consultant and requires a minimum three days in the Swindon office.

You will provide technical and commercial leadership, mentor junior colleagues, and help grow our consultancy by developing services, costed proposals, and high-quality outputs while ensuring compliance with waste regulation and environmental standards.

Qualifications

• A degree in a STEM discipline.
• Technical leadership of projects to agreed budgets and timeframes.
• Experience leading and mentoring a team to deliver high quality outputs and develop skills to diversify.
• A chemical or environmental degree with extensive experience in waste characterisation, process monitoring and/or optimisation (desirable).
• Strong working knowledge of waste regulation (desirable).
• Significant experience in environmental consultancy, environmental management or regulatory roles (desirable).
• Excellent written and verbal communication and engagement skills, including social media.
• Advanced subject matter expertise in waste characterisation and classification, sorting and recycling processes, emissions monitoring and/or environmental regulation.

Responsibilities

• Support leadership of the Waste and Resources team in planning and delivering high quality consultancy projects with the team
• Develop services to expand and improve current commercial offerings and develop costed proposals to meet customer needs
• Provide mentorship and training to junior colleagues to support and inspire their technical development

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Communication

Waste characterisation

Regulatory knowledge

Environmental consultancy

Social media

Team leadership

Education

STEM degree

Chemical/Environmental degree

Job description

WRc Group seeks a Senior Consultant to join the Waste and Resources team in Swindon. This permanent full-time role (37 hours) offers a clear pathway to Principal Consultant and requires a minimum three days in the Swindon office.

You will provide technical and commercial leadership, mentor junior colleagues, and help grow our consultancy by developing services, costed proposals, and high-quality outputs while ensuring compliance with waste regulation and environmental standards.