Principal or Associate - Acoustics

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 to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebratesnew ideasand diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

To find out more about our acoustics team click on the following link and discover what awaits you at WSP:

• This is a fantastic opportunity for the right candidate to help shape and grow our acoustics presence in the Midlands, with opportunities to support the growth of the team and their own career from our Birmingham office.
• We are seeking an experienced Principal / Associate in Birmingham to lead and deliver our flagship and technically complex projects which range from those of national significance tothose more locally-focussed. Weprovidethe opportunity to work across a variety of sectors including residential, commercial, industrial, sports and leisure, renewable energy, and infrastructure.
• Leading by example by placing people and project sat the forefront of our working, includingmentoringjunior staff,contributing to the team’s technicaladvancementsand taking a client-centric approach.
• Promoting theWSPcultureby takinga dynamic and collaborative approach to problem solvinganddeliveringclient focused global best practice with anemphasison selling value not time.

At WSP,you’llexplore new and inspiring opportunities to make the most of your expertise, broaden your professional horizons and create exciting new possibilities for people,ourcitiesand our environment.

We havea large, highlyexperiencedand professional acoustics teamshowcasingtheirexpertiseona diverse range of interesting projects acrossa number ofsectors within the UK for both private and public sector clients.

Ourteam prides itselfon the integrated support offered by working alongside our in-house environmental and sustainability specialists,and regularly collaborating withour structural, railand mechanical engineers, to deliver commercially balanced,innovative and integrated solutions.

Our team prides itself on being welcoming,friendly and supportive.

“Working in the WSP Acoustics team for the last six years has allowed me to realise my goals and ambitions. The team arereally friendly and helpful, supporting me towards achieving chartership as well as my ongoing professional and personal development.” – WSP Senior Acoustic Consultant, IEng MIOA

“A position at WSP gives the right candidate the chance to work on some of the most challenging engineering projects in the world today, backed by a world class team of acoustics engineers.” – WSP Acoustics Technical Director

The WSP Acoustics team are the winners of the 2020 ANC Award for Vibration Control and Prediction. The judges praised the creative and innovative approach to using

Findwaveto give the client the information they needed toproceedwith a time critical project, with good collaborationdemonstratedthroughout.

The WSP Acoustics team were highly commended in the 2022 ANC Awards in the ‘Environmental Noise:

Non Infrastructure’ category for Eden Project North, for undertaking a novel approach for this new mixed use leisure development in Morecambe to allow the

Client flexibility on the number of permissible events whilst giving the EHO confidence that significant adverse effects would be avoided.

The WSP Acoustics teamare the winnersofthe 2023 ANC Award in the ‘Environmental Noise:

Non Infrastructure’ category for Hinkley Point Power Station, for providing noise monitoring and expert advice during the offshore piling work, which has received a significant numberof complaints from the local community. Our advice contributed to managing the noise impacts with the local community and enabled the client to meet their programme without incurring substantialadditionalcosts.

We are proud of our wide-ranging knowledge andexpertisecovering environmental acoustics,architecturalacousticsand complex vibration assessments. Equally important to us is nurturing an inclusive team…