Consultant / Senior Consultant - Groundwater Diffuse Pollution
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YOUR NEW ROLE, WHAT'S INVOLVED?
We are looking to grow our established team of Water Quality and Catchment Management specialists to continue delivering sustainable solutions to the water sector and environmental regulators in the UK and help protect the water environment.
The Role Will Include The Following:
* Water quality data analysis, conceptualisation and visualisation, and clear communication.
* Carrying out desk-based investigations / interpretation of datasets.
* Helping to design field monitoring campaigns including traditional and non-traditional approaches.
* Delivery of technical reports and presentations to clients.
* Feeding into winning new work and helping write proposals for new projects.
* Project and task management.
* Being a key member of our water quality team in Sustainable Water Management.
You will be mainly UK based but will work collaboratively with teams across WSP's global business. So, being able to work effectively as part of a diverse team, as well as individually for discrete tasks, is very important to us.
YOUR TEAM
Our Sustainable Water Management team works across a spectrum of services covering water quality and catchment management, water resources and security, hydrology and hydraulics, geomorphology, hydroecology, and hydrogeology. We provide high-quality technical services and advice to high-profile customers in the UK and overseas, including government departments and agencies, the water industry, and industrial sectors, including power, transport, nuclear, mining, commercial, and oil and gas.
WED LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE:
* Degree-level qualifications in a relevant subject (e.g. geography, geology, geochemistry, earth/environmental science, civil engineering, or similar).
* A higher degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. hydrogeology, water management, environmental science, or similar) is desirable, but not essential.
* Prior work experience, either postdoctoral or in consultancy or working in the water sector (regulator or industry).
* Excellent analytical skills, able to apply them to analysing problems and finding solutions to novel challenges.
* Experience in the use of MS Office tools (Word, Teams, Excel, Access, PowerPoint) and GIS packages, such as ArcGIS or QGIS.
* Ability to collaborate effectively as part of a team and work independently with some guidance.
* Excellent communication skills, able to write clearly and/or communicate ideas through visualisations.
With a background in earth sciences and knowledge of water quality and geochemistry/environmental chemistry, you should be aware of the UK position regarding:
* How groundwater is protected through the WFD and regulatory tools (source protection zones, safeguard zones, water protection zones, NVZs, etc.).
* The main pressures acting on groundwater quality and resources.
You should have an interest in problem-solving through interrogation of time series and spatial datasets, good conceptualisation skills, and understand the importance of source-pathway-receptor models and be able to communicate ideas clearly through your writing or visualisations. An awareness of how groundwater and surface water interact would also be useful.
Field experience including sampling network design, risk assessment before fieldwork, and data collation and interpretation (for river and/or groundwater sampling and monitoring) would also be beneficial, along with some knowledge of catchment management/agri-environment schemes.
APPLY NOW AND BE THE FUTURE OF WSP!
Here at WSP, we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. Please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.
Please note WSP reserves the right to close the vacancy before the advertised closing date.
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