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WSP USA Associate Consultant, Environmental Science in San Diego, California
This Opportunity
WSP is seeking an Associate Consultant Water Resources Scientist or Engineer to help implement our growing storm water consulting projects in San Diego, Orange, and Los Angeles counties. Bachelor's Degree in natural or physical sciences or related engineering field is required, with a minimum of 1 year of experience in surface water quality monitoring or a closely related field. The ideal candidate will help maintain and grow our environmental consulting business and be passionate about the monitoring and implementation aspects of storm water management, TMDLs, indicator bacteria, water quality resources, environmental permitting, and municipal, commercial and industrial NPDES compliance. Specifically, the ideal candidate should have experience working in the field implementing stormwater monitoring and related monitoring projects. Successful candidates will have the ability and desire to implement the technical aspects of stormwater monitoring as well as provide data management, support data analysis and project reporting tasks. The ideal candidate should have a strong attention to detail and organizational skills, and experience in generating high-quality data and reporting work products for clients. .
Your Impact
Assist in implementing stormwater monitoring projects of varying size, including field installations, field monitoring, data management, and reporting
Grow toward leading field teams
Travel to project(s) as needed for the execution of project goals
Coordinate and communicate project schedules and staffing requirements with other project managers
Support technical work scope development
Who You Are
Required Qualifications
Bachelors Degree in Water Resources Engineering or Science (or related field)
1-3 year of relevant experience in the stormwater or surface water monitoring field, preferably in municipal permit compliance or a closely related area
Technical expertise in stormwater or surface water sample and data collection
Demonstrated ability to successfully deliver on tasks and assigned responsibilities
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Maintain flexibility with respect to assigned tasks due to changing deadlines, deliverables, and priorities.
Determined, thorough, and organized
Positive, team-oriented, and self-motivated
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience implementing stormwater and/or related monitoring projects
Knowledge of local (southern California) water resource market
M.S. in Water Resources/Environmental Science (or related field)
WSP Benefits:
WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.
Compensation
Expected Salary: $64,700- $88,880
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.
About WSP
WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.
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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.
At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?
WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.
The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.