Associate Consultant, Infrastructure Resilience

About the role

This Opportunity WSP is currently initiating a search for an Associate 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.

Responsibilities

• Support quantitative modeling of exposure, vulnerability, risks, and resilience associated with natural hazards and long-term climate change considerations for a range of clients in infrastructure sectors.
• Participate in multiple projects, helping to deliver 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.
• Support clients and participate in client meetings to understand and meet requirements for projects.
• 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, or other quantitative discipline.
• 1 to 3 years of relevant quantitative risk and resilience experience in a management consulting or technical advisory firm, or an infrastructure sector organization, e.g., public agency (note: relevant research experience may count towards meeting the number of years of experience).
• Experience working with a spectrum of environmental, socio-economic, and infrastructure data sets and large datasets using programming language (e.g., MATLAB, Python, R).
• 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.
• Experience communicating or helping to communicate orally and in writing technical analysis and results to non-technical audiences using data visualization and maps.
• Effective self-leadership with attention to detail, results orientation, and managing multiple priorities in a dynamic work environment.
• Ability to learn new techniques, perform multiple tasks simultaneously, follow instruction, work independently, and comply with company policies.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills required to apply technical knowledge to reach conclusions from testing results, data collation, statistical analysis and arriving at the most effective, economical, and logical solution.
• Proven track record of upholding workplace safety and ability to abide by WSP’s health, safety and drug/alcohol and harassment policies.

Qualifications

• Post graduate education.
• Experience in at least one infrastructure sector (e.g., transportation, energy, digital, water, urban).
• Experience developing or supporting the development of quantitative vulnerability functions (e.g., fragility functions, depth-damage functions, loss functions, downtime functions).
• In-depth understanding of probability theory.

Skills

• Programming language (e.g., MATLAB, Python, R).
• Data visualization and maps.
• Technical analysis and results communication.
• Data-driven analysis and decision-making.
• Project coordination.
• Client meetings and requirements understanding.
• Responsible and ethical decision-making.
• Problem-solving and critical thinking.
• Workplace safety and adherence to policies.

Benefits

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.

Pay

• Expected Salary (all locations): $58,500 - $101,500

Schedule

Full-time position.

Contact Information

For more information about this opportunity, please visit www.wsp.com.