Become a part of an expanding team of Project Managers, focusing on your career growth and delivering diverse projects for a wide range of global clients, particularly in 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 driving 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;
* Working autonomously to plan, monitor, and control projects with values from £10m to £500m;
* Effectively managing project change and delivering projects within agreed commercial fee arrangements;
* Undertaking contract management and administration under a range of framework and standalone contracts;
* Taking on a leadership role and line management 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:
* A professional qualification in project management, quantity surveying, and/or an engineering discipline.
* Excellent leadership skills and the ability to build and maintain relationships with good interpersonal skills;
* A 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 on your ability and desire to develop your project management career to its full potential and demonstrate transferability.
* Demonstrated competence in stakeholder management, risk, planning/scheduling, and commercial management.
* Proficiency in the 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.
* A 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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