Senior Consultant - Offshore Wind; Energy

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.

The Senior Consultant – Offshore is a key role within the Renewable Power Generation business, supporting the successful delivery and growth of our offshore wind, subsea and broader renewable generation sectors. The role combines autonomous project and task delivery with client engagement, commercial awareness, technical contribution, business development and support for colleagues.

The role requires a strong understanding of offshore wind projects, their principal components and associated technologies, together with a consultancy and engineering mindset. The successful candidate will be expected to take ownership of their work, provide robust advice, coordinate multidisciplinary inputs and deliver high-quality outputs with limited oversight, independently, drawing on specialist support where appropriate.

You will work as part of the Offshore Wind team within the Energy group, with responsibilities including:

• Project delivery:
  Manage and deliver offshore wind consultancy projects, work packages and tasks safely, efficiently and to agreed scope, programme, budget and quality requirements
• Technical quality:
  Take ownership of technical outputs, applying appropriate checking and review processes and producing clear, well-reasoned reports and advice. Review work produced by more junior colleagues where appropriate.
• Client relationships:
  Build trusted client relationships, respond proactively to client needs and act as a day-to-day point of contact for allocated projects and tasks.
• Commercial management:
  Demonstrate strong commercial awareness by developing scopes, programmes and budgets; monitoring project performance; supporting invoicing; and actively managing project risks and opportunities.
• Business development:
  Identify and develop opportunities, contribute to and coordinate proposals, support client-care activities and represent WSP appropriately in industry discussions and events.
• Technical expertise:
  Apply a good level of offshore wind knowledge across project development, advisory, engineering and operations, while continuing to develop specialist expertise relevant to the team’s strategy and client needs.
• People and collaboration:
  Mentor and support junior colleagues, provide constructive feedback and coordinate multidisciplinary teams across WSP to achieve project objectives.
• Operational management:
  Maintain oversight of workload and resource requirements, use WSP systems and governance processes effectively, and support the Renewables Lead with resource, pipeline and operational planning as required.
• Continuous improvement:
  Promote effective ways of working, knowledge sharing, digital tools and lessons learned to improve quality and efficiency across the team.

• Relevant experience in renewable energy, with demonstrable experience of offshore wind projects and increasing responsibility for project or work-package delivery.
• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Environmental Science or another relevant discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• The ability to deliver standard technical and consultancy tasks autonomously, with sound judgement on when specialist or senior input is required.
• Strong project management and commercial skills, including experience managing scope, programme,…