Design Consultant

Global Consultancy | Tier 1 Clients | Exclusive projects
- Work for a global company passionate about Making a Difference
- Join a team of experts that thrive on challenge and unconventional thinking.

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

In this role, you’ll assist in the provision of Waste Management and Circular Economy consulting services in support of the technical and commercial needs of the wider WSP business.

**Property & Buildings**

Our Property and Buildings team is a world-leading management and technical consultancy operating across all sectors. We are passionate about tackling the complex and sophisticated challenges of the built environment and delivering innovative and sustainable solutions to create accessible, resilient and liveable communities.

The Waste and Circular Economy Team sits within Property and Buildings and includes leadership and project delivery staff. The leadership team are primarily responsible for business development, project management and team management. This role sits within the project delivery team.

The main activities and responsibilities of the role include project delivery, assisting junior staff and business development.

**What you’ll do**:
Project Delivery tasks
- 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 research regarding emerging circular economy principles and materials
- Attendance at project meetings accompanied by Circular Economy Leader
- Analysis and interpretation of waste generation data from client supplied case study data.
- Assume responsibility for the results of simple projects or sections of larger projects.

Staff Assistance tasks
- Staff feedback, training /teaching and knowledge sharing on a regular basis.
- Support broader Waste and Resource Recovery team on waste projects.

Business Development tasks
- 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.

**About you**:
**Qualifications**:

- Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Environmental Science/Science, Architecture, or equivalent discipline (e.g. industrial design)

Experience and skills
- 2-3 years’ experience in Circular Economy, Sustainability and/or Construction Materials
- Including extensive experience in Waste Management and Resource Recovery
- 1 year+ consulting experience
- 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
- 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

**About WSP**

WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms, bringing together approximately 4,500 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 LGBTQI+ community, and encourage all employ