Assistant Soil Science Consultant / Soil Science Consultant
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A little more about your role…
At WSP, you’ll find yourself challenged in more fascinating and far-reaching ways than ever before. You’ll explore new and inspiring opportunities to make the most of your expertise, broaden your professional horizons and create exciting new possibilities for people, organisations and society in general.
Our work involves infrastructure and development projects in most sectors, in particular energy transition, nuclear, rail, highways, and residential/commercial development. You will be working on delivering a broad range of projects at various stages with the responsibility for managing projects (with appropriate supervision) including tasks relating to bidding, project team management, project delivery, and financial management.
Soils are an important finite resource which underpin the majority of environmental services but are poorly understood. WSP is looking for an experienced Assistant Consultant or Consultant Soil Scientist to support the growth of our soil team, particularly working with colleagues in Ground & Water, Nature Advisory, Landscape, Environmental Planning, and Sustainability Policy & Compliance. You will join a small soil team to help expand our capabilities and help embed the understanding of soils across the business.
Your Team
The role will be both office and site based. It is anticipated that there would be significant periods of site work required throughout the year with a roughly 50/50 split between site and office averaged across the year. WSP has offices throughout the country; our priority is to find the right person for this challenging role and therefore the location is flexible. The role offers a flexible mix of working from home, with travel into a WSP office for team and client meetings/project work. You will be someone who is an excellent relationship builder, highly organised, and adaptable with an awareness of commercial demands of consultancy work. Ideally you will have the ambition to assist in the growth of the team to address the rapidly growing demand for specialist soils scientists. At WSP you will find a friendly, supportive and motivated team of environmental and engineering professionals to help you succeed in your role.
You will undertake fieldwork/site visits and support on the production of written reports for Agricultural Land Classification (ALC), Soil Resource Assessment, and tailored assessments for inclusion in Environmental Statements and work with our Nature Advisory and Landscape teams supporting their Landscape and Ecological Management Plans. You will manage data to support technical reporting, provide advice and support to colleagues, liaise with clients, landowners, contractors, statutory authorities and third parties.
The post will be within our Ground & Water team which is a service line in WSP's Earth & Environment business.
A typical week would include:
- Preparing for and undertaking soil surveys or supporting in delivery of reports for DCOs, EIAs and other assessments with the wider environmental teams.
- Supporting colleagues across the UK with project delivery, assisting in data management, survey coordination and risk assessment for site works.
- Learning and being supported by a team of experienced technical staff of various grades and sharing your knowledge with others.
What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…
- Degree level qualification in Soil Science, or similar (physical geology, environmental science) with 3-5 years relevant practical experience;
- Experience in completing Agricultural Land Classification (ALC) surveys, Soil Resource Surveys and site supervision during construction works (ideally to BSSS competency standards);
- A thorough grounding in H&S procedures for site work;
- A team player, happy and able to work with geographically spread team;
- Be able to demonstrate excellent communication and report writing skills;
- Registered with a relevant professional body (e.g. British Society Soil Science);
- It would be desirable for you to have a current working knowledge of UK environmental legislation, the implications of construction projects on agricultural land and an understanding of UK agricultural practice and business issues;
- Enjoy working as part of a team and being accountable for your work;
- A working knowledge of applied GIS; and
- A full driving license and enjoy working outdoors.
Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team
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