Job Description

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. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives enabling you to do the best work of your life. You can experience a world of opportunities to shape a career as unique as you.

WSP is one of the world’s top professional services firms, bringing together some of the brightest engineers, advisors and scientists from across the globe. We exist to shape communities to advance humanity. We see the world through a Future Ready® lens, fuelled by a shared commitment to making a positive impact—one project and community at a time.

Principal Environmental Scientist - Contaminated Land Management

We have an opportunity for a Principal Contaminated Land Specialist to join our team of environmental scientists, either in Wellington or Christchurch. This opportunity is for someone with extensive experience in the contaminated land discipline with a keen eye for technical detail and a passion for training others. We work across diverse multi-disciplinary projects in infrastructure, community development and construction, as such the ideal candidate would also be someone highly competent in the development of bids, tenders and contracts within a consultancy setting.

About you:

• Relevant tertiary qualification in Environmental sciences or Geology
• Minimum 15 - 20 years' experience in environmental consulting with at least 15 in Contaminated Land
• Experienced in the design and implementation of robust field programs, and reporting. With capability in soil, groundwater, surface water and ground gas including PFAS. Strong technical reviewer with extensive knowledge with regard to the NESCS and regional requirements.
• Patient and clear task setter, actively engaged with the ongoing training and upskilling of junior staff.
• Strong client and project management skills, confident and articulate communication skills with experience liaising with clients and wider WSP team.
• Current CEnvP – SC or working towards certification required.

We are proud to have the blueprint of Aotearoa New Zealand in our DNA and our 2,000+ expert professionals in 24 offices are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve.

Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 75,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

With us, you can. Apply today.

We will review applications as they come in, so if this opportunity sounds like you, don’t wait to apply!

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WSP is one of the world's leading professional services firms. Our purpose is to future proof our cities and environments.

We have over 65,000 team members across the globe. In Canada, our 12,000+ people are involved in everything from environmental remediation to urban planning, from engineering iconic buildings to designing sustainable transportation networks, from finding new ways to extract essential resources to developing renewable power sources for the future.

At WSP

• We value our people and our reputation
• We are locally dedicated with international scale
• We are future focused and challenge the status quo
• We foster collaboration in everything we do
• We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable

Please Note:

Health and Safety is a core paramount value of WSP. Given the importance of keeping one another safe it is expected that you comply with our Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) policy at all times as well as client HSE policies when working at client locations.

Offers of employment for safety-sensitive positions involving fieldwork are contingent upon candidates being able to perform key physical tasks of the job as described in the job posting and interview. This may include the ability to work in a variety of environmental conditions, such as remote or isolated areas, working alone, and in inclement weather (within safe and reasonable limits).

WSP welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

WSP is committed to the principles of employment equity. Only the candidates selected will be contacted.

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