Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity to join the minerals and waste specialists in our successful and growing nationwide team. This role offers a challenging and rewarding chance to contribute, manage, and deliver planning and environmental inputs across a wide range of projects for a diverse client base. Projects include those consented under both the Town and Country Planning Act regime and the Planning Act 2008. Our projects are varied and at the forefront of professional practice, providing an excellent opportunity to use your experience to develop your career and help shape our continued growth.

This position is strategically significant for our business and involves identifying, winning, and delivering multi-disciplinary inputs that influence the performance of minerals and waste development management and spatial planning projects. We seek individuals with a creative spirit, dedication, and a solid grounding in environmental design, assessment, and management throughout the development project lifecycle.

As a Senior or Principal Consultant, you will collaborate with a diverse team of technical environmental specialists and design professionals to deliver inputs across project lifecycles—from early strategy development, through feasibility and optioneering, to detailed design and assessment. You will manage projects including bidding, team leadership, project delivery, and financial management. You will support colleagues across WSP by providing clients with technical and consenting advice related to minerals and waste elements and assist with minerals/materials and waste impact assessments for various development projects, including residential and major infrastructure schemes.

Responsibilities include managing projects and budgets to deliver high-quality outputs that meet internal and client requirements, interfacing with wider project stakeholders such as engineering teams, consultation leads, and legal advisors, and representing WSP and its clients to key stakeholders, regulators, and industry bodies as required.

Experience
- Proven experience contributing to the delivery of minerals and waste projects in the UK.
- Strong understanding of the UK planning system.
- Knowledge of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process.
- Experience managing projects, including bidding, team coordination, delivery, and financial oversight.

About you
- Passionate about delivering effective advice and positively influencing minerals and waste development management and planning projects.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders, clients, suppliers, and industry professionals.
- Ability to work collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams to deliver carefully considered, high-quality solutions.
- Creative, dedicated, and proactive approach to work.

Qualifications
- Degree or equivalent qualification in Town Planning or a relevant discipline.
- Membership of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) or other relevant professional bodies such as the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA) or the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).