Senior Consultant - Connected and Automated Vehicles; CAV

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

You’ll be part of our 300-strong technically diverse Intelligent Infrastructure business, delivering for a range of transportation and infrastructure clients – Intelligent Infrastructure services (I&I) | WSP.

Our operations and safety group comprises around 70 committed experts from a range of engineering, science, academic and applied backgrounds. We are growing our vehicle automation team at an exciting point for the industry, as policy, technology, safety and operations come together to shape how automated mobility will be deployed in the real world.

Our work in operational safety is centred on understanding the safety impact of design, operation and technology in infrastructure, in support of reduction of harm to transport users, workers and other impacted parties. Through hazard identification, risk assessment and safety evaluation we put a safe systems approach into practice and support our clients’ decision making and safety governance.

• Take a systems view and understand the context - whatever the policy, process, technology or governance change we recognise that it will be only one part of a wider system.
• Put people at the heart of our designs and decision making – any policy, process or technology needs to be designed around people and the capability, opportunity and motivations that shape behaviours.
• Make safety inclusive – to ensure people feel comfortable and safe when using products and services and accessing transport, including populations with protected characteristics and neurodivergent needs.

The successful candidate will work collaboratively with other specialists across WSP, on commissions which may range from short-term advisory projects to long-term multi-disciplinary engineering design schemes; from responsive risk assessment and evaluation in the face of emerging challenges, through to shaping higher level safety governance approaches and application.

Working in step with UK Government policy and direction, we are helping clients navigate this fast-moving area with confidence: making safe, timely and proportionate decisions while exploring the new possibilities that automation can create.

The successful candidate will work alongside senior experts and specialists across WSP, contributing to projects across roads, rail, energy, active travel and emerging mobility. You will be part of a friendly, fun and hardworking team with a flat structure, where people are trusted to take responsibility, use their initiative and make a real contribution. For the right person, the opportunity to grow is significant: if you are ambitious, self-motivated and willing to get stuck in, there is scope to take on meaningful responsibility and shape your own progression.

The focus of the role is to deliver high-quality technical work across the Intelligent Infrastructure discipline, while continuing to develop your expertise across the wider automated vehicle discipline, including systems analysis, operational safety, engineering, new technology and real-world operations. Your attitude, enthusiasm and foundational skills will be more important than prior experience in automated vehicles. You will need excellent written and verbal communication skills, a practical can-do mindset, and the confidence to work both independently and collaboratively as part of…