Senior, Or Associate Acoustic Consultant

The Opportunity

Join our team of talented and collaborative Changemakers and make your mark on tomorrow!

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior or Associate Acoustic Consultant to join our growing Queensland team, focussing on Environmental and Transportation Noise and Vibration. We are open to hosting this role from either of our Brisbane, Sunshine Coast, or Gold Coast offices and are committed to all modern flexible and remote working arrangements.

This is an opportunity for you to join a supportive, high-performing national team, with an established presence in Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Canberra, Christchurch Gold Coast, Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth, and Sydney. We promote a highly connected team culture and positive working environment, and we have opportunities to support once-in-a-generation transport projects in Queensland, NSW, and Victoria. We strive to be a diverse, supportive and open team with a focus on health and wellbeing. We aim to be the best we can be and encourage you to bring your whole self to work.

Your new role, what's involved?

We have some exciting projects for you to work on, including:

• The largest and most complex transportation (road and rail) infrastructure projects, to transform cities whilst connecting our country.
• Renewable power generation (wind, solar) and transmission, as well as Battery Energy Storage Systems on the scale of towns and cities, to enable the renewable transition.
• Advisory roles for major projects at civilian airports, defence airfields and working with unmanned aerial vehicles (drones).

Collaborate with our Acoustics Directors who will support your development as a project leader, technical specialist, and help you work towards industry recognition, certification and RPEQ.

More specifically, this role will see you responsible for:

• Collaboratively working within WSP's multidisciplinary teams, leading and delivering major projects within our strong and secured national project pipeline.
• Discipline lead roles on environmental acoustics and vibration investigations, including noise and vibration impact assessments, monitoring, site inspections, mitigation and management.
• Building and managing relationships with internal and external clients.
• Completing noise predictions using specialised acoustic models and software and analysing and processing data.
• Preparing technical reports for review.
• Coaching and mentoring junior staff, building leadership opportunities.
• Open and ongoing opportunities to support the largest and most complex building acoustics projects in Australia, if that is what drives you.

We'd love to hear from you:

To be successful in this role, you will have some experience in the following:

• Demonstrated experience leading medium-sized projects with the ambition to lead large projects.
• Coordination of noise and vibration fieldwork and contributing to a safe working environment.
• Previous experience applying acoustics legislation, standards and guidelines. AAS membership. Ideally, RPEQ or equivalent engineering registration.
• Experience delivering best-for-client outcomes to save costs and time or add value.
• Experience in the use of various acoustic software (SoundPlan, CadnaA), proficiency with geospatial and mapping software (Esri ArcGIS, QGIS, AutoCAD).
• Experience providing key technical expertise across a range of project types.

If you have a passion for acoustics, noise and vibration, we'd love to hear from you. WSP is committed to enabling flexible working arrangements and with our broad variety of projects, we can develop a role that suits you, your unique skills and personal goals that allows you to thrive.

About WSP

WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms, bringing together approximately 4,500 talented people across 14 offices in Australia. We have committed to halving the carbon footprint of our designs and advice by 2030. Our sustainable solutions and Future Ready projects will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

WSP prioritises the health and well-being of our people by offering flexible working, 12 months of parental leave, opportunities for global mobility, purchased additional leave, and competitive remuneration among many more benefits designed to help you shine. We are committed to providing an inclusive, diverse and equal-opportunity workplace. We promote Indigenous voices and are actively delivering a 'Stretch' level Reconciliation Action Plan. Accredited by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency as an Employer of Choice, we also support the LGBTQI+ community and encourage all employees to bring their whole selves to work.

To express your interest in this position please apply with your resume and a short cover note outlining your interest and how you feel you can meet the criteria.