Environmental Project Manager
WSP in Australia
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Job Description
The Opportunity:
The Remediation Program Management team at WSP offers a unique opportunity to apply your skills within a diverse and growing team supporting key clients. We are seeking team members ready to build a career, embrace new opportunities, and bring innovative ideas to solve the biggest environmental remediation challenges for our major clients. You'll have the chance to formulate your career development plan, interact with mentors, and bond over technical, client, and project delivery activities that pique your interest. Join our team and support our passion for environmental remediation, characterization, and reclamation; saving the planet one site at a time.
Why choose WSP?
- We value and are committed to upholding a culture of Inclusion and Belonging.
- Our Flexible Work Policy – we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours. We will support you on and off the job so you can be fully present in both your work and home lives.
- Our Hybrid Work Policy - a combination of in-person and remote working, enables us to purposefully think of how we work, who we need to work with, and where the work should be done.
- A Canadian success story - we're proud to wear the red and white of this beautiful country and show the world what Canada has to offer.
- Enhance the world around you - from the environment to the highways, to the buildings and the terrain, WSP is the fabric of Canada.
- Outstanding career opportunities - we're growing and pushing ourselves every day to be greater than yesterday - we're open to your ideas and trying new things.
- A phenomenal collaborative culture and a workforce filled with genuinely good people who are doing humbly important work. Come find out for yourself what it's like to be a part of our journey.
We offer attractive pay, flexible work options, a great corporate culture, comprehensive and employee-focused benefits including virtual healthcare and a wellness platform as well as great savings programs, and a clear vision for the future.
#WeAreWSP
What You Can Expect To Do Here
- Be part of a Canadian-based firm, applying and expanding your technical, client delivery and project delivery skills.
- As a part of our team, we each bring our lived experiences in hand, where we have the power to design a place where people, friends, families and neighbours can thrive. Maintain a work-life balance, logging in remotely or attending the office in a hybrid work solution of 3 days a week in the office.
- Clearly identify and help the project team understand project objectives, bringing your ideas and solutions to project directors, mentors and reviewing and adjusting well understood specific work instructions and health and safety plans.
- Develop your career by having several different mentors to plan, adjust and grow your career at WSP. Be a mentor to new, talented and enthusiastic people to the environmental industry within WSP, sharing your experiences and knowledge, developing the next generation of consultants.
- Guided by our Zero Harm policy and rigorous Health, Safety and Environment standards, with your knowledge and experience, reviewing and enhancing project health and safety plans.
- Participate and be a member of a 10-20 person client-specific delivery team, while at the same time leveraging the experience and expertise of the entire RPM group.
- Have a really complex technical issue? Engage with a Practice Area Network (PAN) who may have experienced the same issue in Australia, Malaysia, or even exotic locations like Saskatoon.
- Lead some of the most interesting and technically challenging environmental projects in Western and Northern Canada.
What You’ll Bring To WSP
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Environmental Sciences.
- Have a professional engineering or professional science designation.
- 10+ years experience in the environmental industry.
- Asset to have health and safety training related to the oil and gas industry.
- Stops and takes time out of your busy day to help coworkers, especially new team members, understand assignments and help mentor them in their career path.
- A passion for training new staff in the office and the field all the tips and tricks you’ve picked up over your career.
- Have excellent communication skills and somehow find yourself the default person coordinating activities with your friends and family.
- Miss going to the field and getting to see what’s really going on in the ground.
- Likes to rub soil on their teeth to texture it (but doesn’t because it might be contaminated).
- Can’t get enough learning.
Key skills/competency
- Environmental Remediation
- Project Management
- Environmental Characterization
- Client Delivery
- Health & Safety Management
- Team Leadership
- Mentorship
- Stakeholder Coordination
- Engineering Principles
- Environmental Sciences
How to Get Hired at WSP in Australia
- Research WSP's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Tailor your resume: Customize your resume to highlight experience in environmental remediation, project management, and relevant technical skills, using keywords from the job description.
- Showcase Canadian experience: Emphasize your experience with Canadian environmental regulations, projects in Western/Northern Canada, and relevant industry standards.
- Prepare for technical and behavioral questions: Be ready to discuss complex environmental projects, your mentorship experience, and how you ensure health and safety.
- Network effectively: Connect with current WSP employees on LinkedIn to gain insights and express your genuine interest in their Canadian environmental work.
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