Senior/Associate Consultant - Sustainability & Climate ChangeHybrid

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.

The opportunity

Due to anticipated growth resulting from a strong pipeline of work being secured, we are currently looking to engage a Senior or Associate Infrastructure Sustainability Consultant to join our Queensland team. You can be based in our Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Cairns or Townsville offices.

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 requirement to 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.

Your new colleagues

WSP’s Sustainability team is globally recognised for creativity and innovation, with dedicated teams in some of the world’s most progressive markets for sustainable buildings and infrastructure.

In Australia, our team of 40+ consultants—spanning engineering, architecture, environmental science, economics, and renewable energy—works across major sectors and projects like Kangaroo Point Green Bridge, new transport infrastructure, water systems, and urban precinct renewals.

We deliver high-performance building design and sustainable infrastructure solutions, combining technical expertise with creative thinking to meet both regulatory and voluntary certification needs, including Green Star and IS ratings. We value diverse perspectives, curiosity, and innovation to drive better outcomes for our clients and communities.

A typical day for you

• Providing leadership and management of deliverables for medium and large scale projects;
• Contribute to the development and expertise of our QLD 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 QLD Sustainability Sector;
• Applying a deep understanding of sustainability/ESD principles to solve complex problems, particularly on decarbonisation of infrastructure assets;
• Producing, reviewing and QA’ing designs and reports to meet client requirements for projects, and;
• Leading and delivering client meetings and workshops.

What we'll love about you

• 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.
• 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 value your employee experience

At WSP we provide a diverse and inclusive work environment and offer many personal and professional development opportunities that are aimed to help you deliver your best self to the role whilst managing your personal life in balance. We have been recognised for the second consecutive year as a Great Place to Work® with year-on-year increases in employee engagement.

Some of the many benefits we offer our employees include:

• Flexible/family-friendly working hours and working from home;
• Global mobility;
• Parental leave and purchased additional annual leave;
• Corporate employee discounts and offers;
• Salary continuance insurance;
• Wellness at work and social club;
• Workplace giving/volunteering;
• Employee reward and recognition program, and;
• Professional and technical development opportunities.

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 73,000 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 wellbeing of our people, and the programs we’ve designed to help you thrive, go to our Employee Benefits page.

With us, you can. Apply today.

 Please note we will not be engaging the services of recruitment agencies for this role.