Associate Civil Engineer (Urban Drainage/Wastewater Modelling)

Associate Civil Engineer (Urban Drainage/Wastewater Modelling)

At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

Responsibilities

• We are looking for an Associate to provide leadership on a range of urban drainage projects; know the standards and how to apply them – but also recognise when a different solution is required.
• Provide support to the team lead in managing project delivery, including supervision of tasks and review of deliverables.
• You will develop the urban drainage modelling capability in the team, ensuring we are at the forefront of latest developments in the discipline, and provide training and development support to more junior members of the team.
• Provide technical input on urban drainage projects and support our wastewater team in delivering current and future projects and help influence our future approaches to efficient delivery.
• The role will enable you to further develop and use your technical skills, applying your expertise to help us continue driving forward in terms of both technical quality and service efficiency.
• You will exercise independent engineering judgement and have opportunities to provide innovative solutions to engineering problems. You will be a proactive and collaborative team member.
• Lead people: take responsibility for growing and developing a high-performing team, providing line management and mentorship to maximise everyone’s career development.
• Develop and maintain excellent client relationships at all levels, coordinating and facilitating project meetings internally and with clients.
• Develop and submit successful proposals to bring work into the team, both through existing frameworks, and from new client relationships.
• Promote the WSP brand through appropriate industry forums and conferences.
• You will contribute to the learning of the wider team through knowledge sharing exercises.

Qualifications

• A relevant degree and chartered, or significantly progressed on your journey in pursuing qualification with ICE, IEI, IoW or CIWEM.
• Able to demonstrate clear and successful experience of wastewater hydraulic modelling (InfoWorks ICM) and an ability to check the technical outputs of others prior to issue.
• A good working knowledge of Water Industry Specifications, Code of Practice for the Hydraulic Modelling of Urban Drainage Systems and relevant British Standards.

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.