Senior/Principal Consultant - Surface Water Quality
hace 2 días
Basingstoke
What if you could shape a career as unique as you?\n At WSP, you can always find opportunities to grow and do what matters to you. Make the most of our global reach to discover new challenges and chances to work with diverse, talented individuals who will help you expand your horizons. \nYour new role, what's involved?\n We need people to join our rapidly expanding team of Water Quality and Catchment Management specialists so that we can continue to deliver sustainable solutions to the water sector and environmental regulators in the UK and help protect the water environment. \n With a background in earth sciences and working knowledge of water quality and geochemistry / environmental chemistry you should be aware of the UK situation with regard to: \n\n • How river, lake and TraCs water quality is protected through the WFD and other regulatory tools;\n, • Be aware / have working knowledge of water quality modelling tools (SAGIS SIMCAT, InfoWorks, ICM etc.).\n, • Experience of WFD/EIA scoping, reviews and assessments for water/hydrology chapters. \n, • Experience of water environment data collation (field and/or desk based), quality checking and assurance and interpretation.\n, • Experience of water quality permitting and completion or review of H1 and RQP assessments.\n, • Water quality data analysis, conceptualisation and visualisation and clear communication;\n, • Carrying out desk-based investigations / interpretation of datasets.\n, • Helping to design field monitoring campaigns including traditional and non-traditional approaches;\n, • Delivery of technical reports and presentations to clients; and\n, • Winning new work and writing proposals for new projects.\n, • Project and task management.\n, • Access to extensive internal and external training opportunities;\n, • Supporting for volunteering;\n, • A mentoring programme; and\n, • Degree-level qualifications in a relevant subject (e.g. geography, geology, geochemistry, earth/environmental science, civil engineering or similar);\n, • A higher degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. river or lake water quality, water chemistry, hydrogeochemistry, water management, environmental science, or similar), is desirable, but not essential;\n, • You should have excellent analytical skills, and be able to apply them to analysing problems and finding solutions to novel challenges;\n, • Experience in use of MS Office tools (Word, Teams, Excel, Access, Powerpoint) and use of GIS packages, such as ArcGIS or QGIS;\n, • You will collaborate effectively as part of a team and be able to work independently with some steer;\n #LI-DM2 \n#J-18808-Ljbffr