Entry Level Climate Change Jobs in Reston, VA (NOW HIRING)

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.

This is a technical position that requires entry-level experience in quantitative risk and resilience in the context of natural hazards and climate change. This experience may include assessing the probable impacts caused by natural hazards and climate change to infrastructure assets, their services, and our society. You will collaborate with other experts from our Resilience Services Practice, including climate scientists, natural hazard modelers, engineers, planners, economists, policy specialists, and risk modelers, and expand our organization to meet our growing portfolio of clients.

Your Impact

• 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.

Who You Are
Required Qualifications

• 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.
   

Preferred 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 

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): $58,500 - $101,500

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): $58,500- $95,200

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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