Environmental Risk Assessor

**Work options**: Hybrid

Option to work from home up to 2 days per week

**The opportunity**

Join our team of intelligent and collaborative Changemakers and make your mark on tomorrow

Our Environment team is solving some of Australia’s biggest challenges. We are preserving and improving our built and natural environments, finding ways to use and re-use our resources, and building safe and future ready infrastructure to support places where communities can thrive.

Our recent projects/clients include:

- ** University of Melbourne **- environmental assessment and remediation of the complex former Holden site in Port Melbourne, to support redevelopment of this prize location as a future learning campus
- ** Orica Australia **- environmental assessment, probabilistic cost and volume modelling, and soil and groundwater remediation to support Audit of the two main Orica sites in Victoria: Yarraville and Deer Park
- ** Viva Energy** - geotechnical and environmental assessment, environmental management and compliance, boundary containment system operation and maintenance, contamination management and operations environmental services

As a Environmental Risk Assessor, you will be part of a group of multi-skilled professionals, conduct fieldwork across Melbourne and be involved in supporting human health and ecological risk assessments (HHERA) in client projects, including environmental investigations, assessments and remediation of contaminated sites driven by risk to human health and environment.

You will be based in our **Melbourne CBD office** with the option to **work from home up to 2 days per week**.

**What you’ll do**
- Assist with the collection of data that supports contaminated site investigations, chemical assessments, human health and ecological risk assessments
- Conduct literature searches, and reviews and interpretation of scientific information (e.g., biology, chemistry, toxicology and ecotoxicology studies)
- Manage and evaluate chemical and biological datasets, generate statistical metrics, and run simple models
- Manage the preparation and presentation of data outputs (such as graphs, pie charts, box plots)
- Undertake quality assurance and validation data checking
- Contribute to the preparation of human health and ecological risk assessment reports
- Support the preparation of proposals that relate to risk assessment and/or contaminated site investigations

**About you**

You’re enthusiastic, reliable, great at building collaborative working relationships, and you’re keen to take the next step up in your career.

You’re likely to have a background in Environmental or Biological Sciences and 2-7 years of environmental (consulting) experience.

We typically look for people with experience/knowledge in:

- Relevant guidelines, procedures, and environmental regulations for risk assessment in Australia
- Proficiency in use of Microsoft Office, in particular Excel
- Experience with data management systems and statistical software will be an asset (e.g. ESDAT)
- Experience in use of modelling tools to estimate chemical and biological effects and/or contaminant migration
- Python, R, statistics or similar
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, analytical and problem-solving skills

**About WSP**

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

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