Senior Environmental Planner

Description

• Ensures that confidentiality is respected and maintained at all times; Consistently demonstrates trustworthiness, integrity, professionalism and honesty.
• Model WSP Guiding Principles.
• Write fact-based reports with objective assessment of proposed developments (and its potential impacts) in relation to government (central and local) policies and plans.
• Promote best practice within the team and individual projects; Provide technical and operational support to others within the Environment Team.
• Undertake tasks associated with lodging applications for resource consent eg, public consultation, considering issues, identifying a regulatory way forward; Prepare and process resource consent applications, assessment of environmental effects, notice of requirements and outline plans.
• Undertake statutory assessments within the context of relevant plans and legislations; Assist with and undertake community engagement on behalf of clients.
• Provide input into the planning of infrastructure and civil engineering projects and assist project managers with project scoping with appropriate inputs, outputs and verification activities.
• Work within multi-disciplinary teams, advising them of potential inter-dependencies and interactions between specialist areas, identifying where a change in one area might impact another (e.g. ecology and air quality).
• Contribute to planning advice and input to Initial and Detailed Business Cases for transport projects, including Multi-Criteria Analysis scoping, plan reviews, and business case writing support.

Requirements

• Employment with WSP India is subject to the successful completion of a background verification (“BGV”) check conducted by a third-party agency appointed by WSP India.
• Able to identify mitigation measures that would reduce potential negative impacts and enhance potential beneficial impacts.
• Membership of a SocEnv licensed professional organisation like IEMA, CIEEM etc; Chartered status preferred.
• Able to work effectively and competently with people at all levels; within and external to the organisation; Able to work collaboratively and perform effectively as part of a team across a geographically spread matrix structure.
• Demonstrable experience in using ArcGIS or QGIS and insightful, data-based storytelling using PowerBI or R Studio etc.
• Postgraduate Degree in Environmental Planning (eg. from SPAs etc.) or Environmental Engineering/Science (eg. from IITs/NITs/IISc etc.)
• Have a good appreciation of relevant legislation and maintains knowledge of appropriate technical standards, legislation, codes of practice and New Zealand norms.
• Able to optimise and prioritise conflicting demands in a busy environment, to achieve deadlines and see responsibilities through to completion; Resilient, comfortable with change and ambiguity.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to collate and comprehend data from multiple disparate sources; Strong GIS skills and able to present complex geo-spatial insights.
• Experience of working on overseas (UK/AU/NZ) assignments preferred. Strong understanding of the UK model will be highly beneficial.
• Experience of working on overseas (UK/AU/NZ) assignments around Stakeholder Engagements, Environmental & Social Impact Assessments, Consenting and Complinace will be given high preference.
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience post qualification in Environmental & Social Impact Assements and Consenting & Compliance
• Fluent in spoken and written English and able to present ideas, complex technical information and advice in a way that is understandable to a wide range of audiences.
• Demonstrate sound knowledge of resource management planning and formulate advices for clients on resource management plans and policies; Produce innovative and original resource management planning outcomes that are well thought through; Distil information into recommendations regarding next steps.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance