Associate Senior Project Manager, Water

2 months ago


Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom WSP USA Full time

Become a part of an expanding team of Project Managers, with a focus on your career growth, delivering diverse projects for a wide range of global clients, focusing on the infrastructure, natural environment, water, flood defence, and earth and environment sectors. With over 10,000 colleagues in the UK, our projects include highways, rail, urban infrastructure, energy, flood, water, wind energy, nuclear, defence and large-scale utilities.

About the Role:

YOUR TEAM

You will be part of our wider Project Management and Commercial Management Team (PMCM), made up of over 400 professionals across the UK and sit within our Civil Infrastructure and Utilities Group. Your future development will be actively supported with access to WSP's full range of training, development tools and resources.

You will integrate into our team's flexible working culture, offering a balance of home and office working, where safety and wellbeing are paramount.

A typical Day would include:

  • Ensuring compliance with quality management systems, and drive efficiencies throughout project execution;
  • Providing leadership and guidance to project teams in a multi-disciplinary environment;
  • Providing leadership and support to business development, cross-selling, networking, work winning, and supporting the marketing of WSP services
  • Organising and chairing client meetings;
  • Work with autonomy to plan, monitor and control projects with values from £10m to £500m;
  • Effectively manage project change and deliver projects within agreed commercial fee arrangements;
  • Undertake contract management and administration under a range of framework and standalone contracts;
  • Undertaking leadership role and line manager responsibilities for a team ;
  • Taking accountability for delivering projects within agreed financial metrics;
  • Making decisions on complex issues and providing direction regarding approach and priorities

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

  • Professional qualification in project management, quantity surveying and/or an engineering discipline.
  • Excellent leadership skills, and can build and maintains relationships with good interpersonal skills;
  • Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Maths (STEM) or similar disciplines;
  • Undertaken and obtained NEC accreditation in Project Management;
  • Membership of professional institutions, preferably Chartered;
  • A record of delivering complex, high-risk projects successfully including working on large infrastructure projects and programmes. A background in water, linear infrastructure and/or environmental projects would be beneficial, but our focus is upon your ability and desire to develop your project management career to its full potential and demonstrate transferability.
  • Demonstrate competence in stakeholder management, risk, planning/scheduling, and commercial management.
  • Proficiency in use of project management tools and software;
  • Evidence of higher attainment and professional development in project management or current field
  • Demonstrable experience in a collaborative integrated delivery team.
  • Natural communicator, negotiator, and champion of good practice

The opportunity is suitable for an individual with previous experience in Project Management, Civil Engineering Quantity Surveying, or Commercial Management with a desire to focus on Project Management and develop a career in this area.

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When considering a career move its vital to work for a business that is aligned to your values and goals, a place where you can belong.

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WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU

Work-life balance?

WSP recognises that work is only one part of your life and making time for other things is important – whether that's for your families, friends, or yourself.

Our hybrid working policy allows the flexibility to work from the comfort of your own home as well as collaborating in our contemporary offices across the UK.

Inclusivity & Diversity?

We want our people to achieve rewarding careers, bringing their whole selves to work. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing diversity to create a culture of inclusion and belonging at WSP.

Our employee resource groups VIBE (LGBTQ+ employees), CREED (Championing Racial Equality and Ethnic Diversity) and our Gender Balance Group, in tandem with WSP's Neurodiverse Community Group, WSP Connect Group (visible and non-visible disabilities) help us promote the right environment for you to reach your full potential.

Health & Wellbeing?

We are committed to supporting our people, giving you the tools to make improvements to your health and wellbeing through our Thrive programme.

Med24 gives you and your family unrestricted telephone access to an NHS doctor where you can call day or night or have a face-to-face video consultation.

Flex your time?

For improved work life balance, WSP offers the "WSP Hour" which enables you to take one hour per day to do as you wish and make up the time earlier or later that day. We also offer part time and flexible working arrangements plus the option to flex your bank holiday entitlement to suit you.

Your development?

We appreciate that development and training is important to you and that's why we have a supportive environment that invests in your development, whether that's chartership, training or mentoring.

APPLY NOW AND BE THE FUTURE OF WSP

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Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.

Please note WSP reserves the right to close the vacancy before the advertised closing date.



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