Consultant, Climate Resilience

The Opportunity

WSP is currently initiating a search for a Consultant to support our company’s growing Resilience Services Practice and our Climate, Resilience and Sustainability team. This is a full-time position located in any of our offices in the United States.

This new technical position is for a team member that will support our analysis of climate and environmental data, use geospatial tools for the visualization of data, and conduct research to support the appropriate thresholds that define climate impacts on infrastructure and communities.  You will work with other experts from our Resilience Services Practice, including climate scientists, engineers, planners, economists, policy specialists, and risk modelers, and expand our organization to meet our growing portfolio of clients, for whom we identify their risk to climate-related hazards, including socio-economic impacts, and develop resilience strategies and plans to reduce these risks.

Your Impact 

• Apply and develop technical workflows for analyzing environmental data, including downscaled climate model output, to assess current and future exposures, including researching appropriate climate stressor thresholds for climate impact assessments and examining environmental data for best-use purposes and appropriate applications.
• Provide quantitative analysis of exposure, vulnerability, risks, and resilience associated with long-term climate change considerations for a range of clients such as municipalities and infrastructure agencies.
• Prepare documentation that succinctly summarizes methodologies and results for technical and lay audiences.
• Participate on multiple projects, delivering on project commitments through effective coordination with internal colleagues, external resources and agencies, and consulting team partners.
• Contribute to a diverse team of experts working to advance the Resilience Services Practice through effective data-driven analysis and decision-making.
• Exercise responsible and ethical decision-making regarding company funds, resources and conduct, and adhere to WSP’s Code of Conduct and related policies and procedures.
• Perform additional responsibilities as required by business needs.

Who You Are

• Bachelor’s degree Meteorology, Atmospheric science, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Data Science, or a related field.
• 3-5 years of experience working with tools and/or workflows for effective data visualization of environmental data, particularly atmospheric data.
• Experience routinely working on coding projects in Python, adapting scripts, notebooks, and programs written by colleagues, enhanced by a strong aptitude in standard programming practices. 
• Proficiency with Python libraries used to process and store labeled arrays, such as NumPy, xarray, xclim, dask, and zarr.
• Familiar with geospatial processing tools (e.g., GDAL, QGIS, ArcGIS, Google Earth Engine)
• Proven capabilities for technical project delivery.
• Experience communicating orally and in writing technical analysis and results to non-technical audiences using data visualization and maps.
• Attention to detail; commitment and skills to identify and detect errors; commitment to thorough quality reviews and checks; and commitment to accuracy, correctness, and excellence.
• Ability to innovate on challenging topics to produce client-tailored products.
• Experience working both independently and on efforts requiring remote collaboration.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Graduate degree in Meteorology, Atmospheric science, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Data Science, or a related field.
• Experience working on climate data to inform hazard and impact analyses.
• Experience analyzing the impacts to assets, infrastructure, and communities caused by climate-related hazards.
• Experience with high-performance computing (HPC) and parallel processing in cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
• Proficiency in version control systems (e.g., Git, GitHub) for managing code and collaborating on projects.

WSP Benefits:

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a 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 (all locations): $64,00 – $125,400

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.

Expected Salary (Colorado only): $64,000 – $117,700

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and 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.

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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.