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What you’ll doWSP’s Investor and Economic Advisory team are at the forefront of shaping the future of infrastructure, energy, and transport. As part of the Investor and Economics Advisory team you will sit at the precipice between the technical and financial worlds. You will help clients understand technical risks for next era infrastructure projects. A key focus of your role will be in supporting senior managers within the team to coordinate and deliver reports across a range of projects. For example, you could be informing lenders about key project cost risks or assisting a potential investor in undertaking technical due diligence on a target company’s product or process.

The Infrastructure and Economic Advisory team have a strong track record of supporting clients at all stages of the project lifecycle. This could include conducting early-stage Bankability Reviews through to monitoring project delivery on behalf of investors during the construction and operational phases.

Your success in this role will revolve around delivering precise and accurate reports, adhering to an agreed scope of work, and collaborating with the team to identify and understand technical and/or project schedule risk. Development within the role will involve taking on more responsibility in delivering larger sections of reports unaided with guidance and training provided to help you become a more independent consultant.

Your role will allow you to provide a unique technical perspective, and to develop knowledge across the cleantech sector as well as client-facing professional skills at senior to C-suite levels within client organisations.

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate

Experience within a manufacturing / chemical process engineering / technical consulting environment.

Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or closely related STEM subject.

Experience delivering complex assignments and coordinating workstreams to tight deadlines.

Demonstrated ability to communicate specialist and/or technical topics to other commercial business functions (e.g. legal, finance, procurement). For example, the ability to describe to an investor why the yield of a certain process is at a certain level.

Experience working with cross-functional teams comprising technical and commercial disciplines with confidence.

Demonstrated ability to comprehend varied clean energy / infrastructure project related technical documentation and the ability to synthesize information to produce material within a short period of time.

A passion for shaping sustainable infrastructure and supporting the energy transition.

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all. Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

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About UsWe are one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Our 72,800 passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion. With over 9,000 professionals across the UK and Ireland, we are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower.

What’s in it for you?

Work-life balance: Our hybrid working policy offers the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while also providing opportunities to collaborate in our modern offices across the UK.

Inclusivity and Belonging: We welcome applicants with varied backgrounds and experiences. We enable rewarding careers by encouraging people to bring their whole and authentic selves to work so that our work represents the fullest spectrum of society. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing a culture of inclusion and belonging at WSP. We have our employee resource groups that promote culture of inclusivity.

Health and Wellbeing: Thrive programme, Virtual GP service, reasonable workplace adjustments, Gymflex scheme, menopause support package.

Flex your time: WSP My Hour to take one hour each day for personal activities, with the flexibility to make up the time earlier or later the same day. Part-time and flexible working arrangements, option to purchase additional leave, and ability to use bank holiday entitlement to suit you.

Your development: Training, mentoring, or Chartership opportunities.

Key details

Seniority level: Entry level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Consulting, Information Technology, and Sales

Industries: Professional Services

We are committed to welcoming applicants and supporting adjustments; We are Disability Confident and encourage applicants with disabilities to apply.

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