Senior/ Associate Geo-Environmental Engineer

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.

The Opportunity

We’re expanding our Geo-Environmental Engineering team and are looking for a Senior to Senior Associate-level Geo-Environmental Engineer to join our Sydney office.

This hybrid role offers flexibility and the chance to lead a talented technical team, while building strong client relationships across Australia. You’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering projects in civil infrastructure, waste, water, and mining sectors.

You will:

- Lead and deliver projects focused on
- Waste management including landfill design, engineered containment systems, geosynthetic applications resource recovery solutions
- Water infrastructure including dam engineering, earth structures and repair works, and wastewater management ponds
- Mining including tailings management facilities and complex liner systems
- Ground engineering including slope stabilisation and rehabilitation
- Develop cutting-edge solutions for geo-environmental challenges, integrating waste management into broader infrastructure projects
- Prepare and review technical documentation for waste-related projects across planning, design, and execution phases
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients in the waste and geo-environmental sectors, supporting both project delivery and business development initiatives
- Ensure technical excellence in waste and geo-environmental engineering, overseeing quality and risk management
- Undertaking project management to deliver desired outcomes for key clients with a focus on repeat business
- Mentor and guide junior engineers,



fostering a cooperative team environment and sharing expertise in waste management and geo-environmental engineering

Responsibilities of the Role

- Comprehensive working knowledge of the federal, state and local planning systems across Australian jurisdictions, proactively providing guidance on this to other team members and other teams.
- Experience in planning (7+ years) - ideally with in house or consultancy experience.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, and an ability to build relationships and trust with a wide variety of stakeholders.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Commercial acumen and entrepreneurial values.
- Ability to manage complex project issues, managing time, setting priorities and organising the complex logistics of planning activities and outputs.
- Experience in ground mount solar PV, wind and/or other renewable energy/infrastructure projects, including BESS.
- Solid understanding of the project development life cycle from early stage to COD.

About You

In this role, strong detailed design capabilities are essential. You will bring:

- Tertiary qualifications in Civil, Geotechnical, or Environmental Engineering, supported by at least 7 years of relevant industry experience.
- Technical expertise in waste management, including the design of landfills, leachate collection and treatment systems, geosynthetics, capping systems, and resource recovery infrastructure.
- Ability to assess and design for subsurface environmental risks, embankments, complex earthworks, and surface water management systems.
- Proficiency in using design software and tools to produce accurate, constructible, and compliant engineering designs.
- Excellent communication skills,



with the ability to clearly convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience leading and contributing to multidisciplinary project teams, ensuring integration of design elements across disciplines.
- A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with a strong commitment to sustainability, innovation, and technical excellence.
- Proven or developing skills in mentoring and guiding junior to senior engineers, with sound decision-making and project delivery skills.

Experience & Knowledge Required

- Comprehensive working knowledge of the federal, state and local planning systems across Australian jurisdictions, proactively providing guidance on this to other team members and other teams.
- Experience in planning (7+ years) - ideally with in house or consultancy experience.
- Commercial acumen and entrepreneurial values.
- Ability to manage complex project issues, managing time, setting priorities and organising the complex logistics of planning activities and outputs.
- Experience in ground mount solar PV, wind and/or other renewable energy/infrastructure projects, including BESS.
- Solid understanding of the project development life cycle from early stage to COD.

Company Description

Our company is a place where you can be yourself and grow, a place where your ideas and opinions matter. We pride ourselves on being an inclusive community, where every individual is valued and treated with respect.

We have a culture driven by our core values - from operating safely to ensuring our projects are responsible.

We offer a variety of benefits, including annual bonus, retention bank, health insurance, superannuation and other local benefits. Beyond your day-to-day working life at Lightsource bp, there's a variety of initiatives that will contribute to your own personal development. These include our charitable causes, supporting our solar honey project, or volunteering on our VIBES committee to name a few.

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