Waste Management and Circular Economy Consultant

Work in a rapidly evolving industry, delivering circular economy principles in projects.
- Join a team of experts that thrive on a challenge and unconventional thinking.
- Fantastic city office and team who is supportive in your career

**The Opportunity**:
Join our team of intelligent and collaborative Changemakers and make your mark on tomorrow In this role, you’ll work with the Waste and Circular Economy Team. This is a National team made up of leadership and project delivery staff. They are a passionate and cohesive team made up of the leadership group (primarily responsible for business development, project management and team management) and the project delivery group (primarily responsible for project delivery, assisting junior staff and some business development). This role sits within the Project Delivery group.

**In this role you will**:

- Advise clients on trends within the waste and circular economy sector
- Advice clients on embedding circular economy principles into projects
- Preparation of circular economy reports, strategies, policies and guidelines
- Perform and guide research regarding emerging circular economy principles and materials
- Attendance at project meetings as Circular Economy Advisor
- Analysis and interpretation of waste generation data from client supplied case study data.
- Assume responsibility for the results of medium projects or sections of large projects.
- Allocate tasks/projects and assist junior team members
- Staff feedback, training /teaching and knowledge sharing on a regular basis
- Prepare bids and tenders including developing a scope of work and pricing for proposals
- Attend industry functions including company representation at seminars, conferences, networking events or forums

**Ideally you will have**:

- Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Environmental Science/Science, Architecture, or equivalent discipline (e.g. industrial design) - Minimum requirement.
- Strong experience in Circular Economy, Sustainability and/or Construction Materials, including experience in Waste Management and Resource Recovery
- Must have previous experience in consulting
- Strong experience with policy and strategy projects (guidelines, document responses, advisory documents)
- Ideally have worked in more than one of these industries: infrastructure/built environment, government, or sustainability sector
- Strong stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills
- Ability to work within a team
- Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written).
- Excellent report writing, analytical skills (including Microsoft Word and Excel expertise) and attention to detail.

**Personal Attributes**
- Is passionate about waste management, resource recovery, circular economy and/or sustainability.
- Is organised and demonstrates attention to detail
- Demonstrates enthusiasm to develop and learn skills in relevant discipline
- Demonstrates ability to work with a range of stakeholders at team and manager level
- Demonstrates ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast paced work environment
- Open to and actions feedback
- Strives to deliver quality outcomes

**Location**
- This position is based in our Melbourne office, flexible work arrangements will be negotiated based on experience but ideally this is a face to face role where you are primarily needed to work in the office with your team.

**About WSP**

WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms, bringing together approximately 4,300 talented people across 14 offices in Australia. We have committed to halving the carbon footprint of our designs and advice by 2030. Our sustainable solutions and Future Ready projects will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

Our vibrant workplace culture is an important part of what makes this a great place to work. It is supported by our Guiding Principles:

- We value our people and our reputation.
- We are locally dedicated with international scale.
- We are future focused and challenge the status quo.
- We foster collaboration in everything we do.
- We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable.

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 LQBTQI+ community, and encourage all employees to bring their whole selves to work.

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