Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
At WSP, you have the opportunity to shape a career as unique as you. We offer global reach and diverse challenges, working alongside talented individuals to expand your horizons. As a Senior / Principal Technical Lead within our Catchment Science team, you will play a key role in delivering and growing our portfolio of high-profile WINEP water resources projects. Your work will address environmental and water resource challenges faced by the water industry in England and Wales, particularly during AMP8.

You will provide technical expertise, ideally with hydro-ecology knowledge, collaborating across Sustainable Water Management and Aquatic Ecology teams to lead robust technical assessments and produce high-quality reports. Your responsibilities will include day-to-day client and regulator engagement, supporting project pipeline development, generating bid proposals, and project management including financial and change control and quality assurance. Promoting a 'safety first' culture in line with WSP's health and safety policies is essential.

This role offers the chance to work with multi-disciplinary experts including hydrogeologists, hydrologists, geomorphologists, and hydro-ecologists. You will have opportunities to contribute to wider projects such as water quality, flood risk management, biodiversity net gain, and environmental impact assessment. There is flexibility to shape the role and seniority to suit the right candidate.

Our Catchment Science team delivers high-quality technical services to government departments, water companies, regulators, and various industrial sectors. With increasing demand forecast for AMP8, we provide a dynamic and supportive environment for motivated professionals to grow and succeed.

Experience
- Proven technical leadership and/or management of water resources WINEP investigations or similar projects
- Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams to deliver robust technical assessments
- Clear understanding of regulatory requirements, especially Water Framework Directive related to WINEP investigations
- Experience assessing impacts of abstraction on the water environment, ideally with hydro-ecology expertise
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to engage and influence at all levels
- Strong commercial awareness and experience in business development and proposal preparation
- Excellent report writing and technical review skills

About you
- Experienced and enthusiastic self-starter capable of working independently and collaboratively
- Highly motivated with excellent communication skills
- Able to apply own technical knowledge and leverage collective expertise to solve complex challenges
- Flexible and open to working across disciplines and on a variety of related projects

Qualifications
- MSc and/or BSc degree in a relevant discipline such as earth sciences, environmental science, geography, or aquatic ecology
- Chartered or working towards chartership with a relevant professional body