Graduate

Our Sustainable Water Management team works across a spectrum of services covering water quality and catchment management water resources and security, hydrology and hydraulics, geomorphology, hydroecology and hydrogeology. We provide high quality technical services and advice to high-profile customers in the UK and overseas, including government departments and agencies, the water industry, and industrial sectors, including power, transport, nuclear, mining, commercial and oil and gas.

We offer a dynamic, but supportive environment for a motivated and talented individual to fulfil their potential. We recognise that our people are central to our success as a business. As a consequence, we are committed to a providing a comprehensive framework for the professional development of our staff, including:

• Access to extensive internal and external training opportunities;
• A mentoring programme; and
• Support for gaining chartership through professional institutions.

We are seeking graduate to join our rapidly expanding team of Water Quality and Catchment Management specialists so that we can continue to deliver sustainable solutions to the water sector and environmental regulators in the UK and help protect the water environment. 

With a background in water resources engineering, environmental engineering, earth sciences and an interest in water quality and geochemistry / environmental chemistry you will learn and work upon:

• How river, lake and TraCs water quality is protected through the WFD and other regulatory tools;
• Getting trained on water quality modelling tools (SAGIS, SIMCAT, InfoWorks ICM UPM etc.).
• Learn on national level infrastructure projects, particularly for National Highways. Experience of HEWRAT or drainage would be advantageous.
• Learn about EIA scoping, reviews and assessments for water/hydrology chapters. 
• Gain an understanding of water quality permitting and completion or review of H1 and RQP assessments. 
• Gain understanding of how to conceptualise a water quality problem and knowledge of the available datasets which can be used in problem solving. 

You should have an interest in problem solving through interrogation of time series and spatial datasets, good conceptualisation skills and understand the important of source pathway receptor models and be able to clearly communicate ideas either through your writing or visualisations.  An awareness of how groundwater and surface water interact would also be useful. 

Interest in learning about sampling network design, liaising with UK teams on risk assessment before field work, and data collation and interpretation (for river and / or groundwater sampling and monitoring) would also be beneficial and some theoretical knowledge of catchment management / agri-environment schemes. 

The role will include the following:

• Water quality data analysis, conceptualisation and visualisation and clear communication;
• Carrying out desk-based investigations / interpretation of datasets. 
• Helping to design field monitoring campaigns including traditional and non-traditional approaches;
• Delivery of technical reports and presentations to clients; and
• Winning new work and writing proposals for new projects.
• Project and task management. 
• Being a key member of our water quality team in Sustainable Water Management; 

You will be based in our India office (Bengaluru or Mumbai as per your choice), but will work collaboratively with teams across WSP’s global business and mainly with our UK based teams. So, being able to work effectively as part of a diverse team, as well as individually for discrete tasks, is very important to us.

• Degree-level qualifications in a relevant subject (e.g. water resources, geography, geology, geochemistry, earth/environmental science, civil engineering or similar);
• A higher degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. river or lake water quality, water chemistry, hydrogeochemistry, water management, environmental science, or similar), is desirable, but not essential;
• You should have excellent analytical skills, and be able to apply them to analysing problems and finding solutions to novel challenges;
• Experience in use of MS Office tools (Word, Teams, Excel, Access, Powerpoint) and use of GIS packages, such as ArcGIS or QGIS;
• You will collaborate effectively as part of a team and be able to work independently with some steer;
• You will demonstrate excellent communication skills, being able to write clearly and / or communicate ideas through visualisations.

BGV:

• Employment with WSP India is subject to the successful completion of a background verification (“BGV”) check conducted by a third-party agency appointed by WSP India.

• Candidates are advised to ensure that all information provided during the recruitment process — including documents uploaded — is accurate and complete, both to WSP India and its BGV partner”.