Location
Manchester (UK Wide opportunities available)

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? 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.

Onshore renewable energy technologies play a leading role in meeting the rising demand for power, maintaining secure and reliable energy supplies, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and delivering future energy schemes to help create a sustainable world. WSP helps clients plan and execute large-scale renewable energy projects, including solar photovoltaic, onshore wind and battery energy storage systems. Armed with a workforce of highly skilled engineers, scientists and technicians, we partner with clients to meet their clean energy objectives.

As one of the largest environmental consultancies in the UK, you’ll get the opportunity to contribute to major onshore renewable energy projects and support the energy transition towards Net Zero. You’ll be encouraged to explore new ideas in a culture that values curiosity and diverse perspectives.

With increased support at Governmental level across the UK for onshore renewables, the continued growth of this sector will bring increased scrutiny and challenges. As either a Senior Consultant or Principal Consultant in our Environmental Consents team, you’ll play a key role in navigating this landscape—supporting the development of onshore renewables projects through strategic planning, environmental advice, and technical studies.

You’ll contribute to some of the UK’s most significant and transformative onshore renewables projects, delivering services such as planning applications and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), and support for Development Consent Order (DCO) examinations and planning inquiries. This is a post of strategic significance for our business and represents a challenging and exciting opportunity to identify, win and deliver multi-disciplinary inputs for onshore renewables projects.

We need people with creative spirit, a dedicated approach and a solid grounding in environmental design, assessment and management at any stage of the development project lifecycle.

Join a great organisation. As either a Senior Consultant or Principal Consultant, you will collaborate with a diverse team of technical specialists and design professionals to manage environmental contributions across project designs and assessments. You will be instrumental in improving the environmental performance for a range of onshore renewables projects.

The role would suit an enthusiastic individual looking to influence, manage and deliver environmental elements of onshore renewables projects. You will have responsibility for managing projects including tasks relating to bidding, project team management, project delivery, and financial management.

Key responsibilities include managing the delivery of a diverse range of environmental inputs into onshore renewables projects including planning applications, EIA, and support for DCO examinations and/or planning inquiries. You will also build relationships with clients and identify opportunities to provide support in areas such as resourcing, programming, strategy development and project delivery.

Additional duties include undertaking activities to secure new work, preparing proposals, contributing to strategic bid preparation, and participating in business development opportunities. You will support the development of innovative techniques to shape the way we do business, whether through Digital EIA, Technical Excellence, or Future Ready EIA.

Inspiring and upskilling junior colleagues to support their career development and promoting an inclusive workplace are also important aspects of the role. You will demonstrate an understanding of Health and Safety whilst living the values of our health, safety, and wellbeing culture.

Undertaking actions that contribute towards the success of the WSP business strategy, whilst being self-motivated towards goals relevant to the role, team, and your projects, will be expected.

Experience
- Demonstrable experience of undertaking EIA for onshore renewables schemes with limited supervision, including under a range of UK planning regimes such as the Town and Country Planning Act and the Planning Act 2008.
- Experience in coordinating a suite of environmental surveys required to support an EIA for renewables schemes, with knowledge of associated Health and Safety requirements.
- Experience in bid preparation and responding to client change requests with appropriate fee adjustments for renewables projects.
- Ability to lead and contribute to meetings with wider technical teams, external clients and stakeholders.
- Proven ability to apply programme knowledge to effectively coordinate tasks across technical teams, clients, stakeholders, and partner organisations, delivering projects on time and within budget.

About you
- Enthusiastic and dedicated with a creative spirit.
- Strong leadership and project management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong report writing and review capabilities.
- Attention to detail and a focus on quality assurance.
- Ability to inspire and support junior colleagues’ career development.
- Commitment to promoting an inclusive workplace and living health, safety, and wellbeing values.

Qualifications
- Relevant environmental degree level qualification in EIA or similar.
- Achieved or demonstrably working towards Practitioner or Chartered Environmental Status.
- Full membership of IEMA or similar qualification with a relevant professional body.