Overview

Associate Project Manager (Water & Environment) at WSP. Join to apply for the Associate Project Manager (Water & Environment) role at WSP.

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

A Little More About Your Role… 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.

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.

Responsibilities

• 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;
• Plan, monitor and control projects with values from £10m to £500m with a degree of autonomy;
• 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;
• Make decisions on complex issues and provide direction regarding approach and priorities.

What We Will Be Looking For You To Demonstrate

• Professional qualification in project management, quantity surveying and/or an engineering discipline.
• Excellent leadership skills, and can build and maintain 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 track record of delivering complex, high-risk projects, including large infrastructure projects and programmes. Background in water, linear infrastructure and/or environmental projects is beneficial; focus is on developing project management career and transferability.
• 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. If you don’t meet all criteria, apply and we can assess alignment to this role and other opportunities within the team.

About Us We are one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Our 72,800 passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion.

What’s in it for you

• Work-life balance with hybrid working and flexible offices across the UK.
• Inclusivity and belonging; diverse backgrounds welcomed and supported through employee resource groups.
• Health & wellbeing programs, including Thrive, Virtual GP, and menopause support; Gymflex discount and other benefits.
• Flexible time options, part-time and flexible working arrangements, additional leave options, and adaptable holiday policies.
• Development opportunities through training, mentoring, and Chartership support.

#WeAreWSP We encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, 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 inform us of any workplace adjustments you require.

Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type Part-time

Job function Project Management and Information Technology

Industries Professional Services