Overview

Associate Project Manager (Water & Environment) role at WSP in the UK & Ireland. Join to apply for this position and contribute to landmark projects in the water, environment and infrastructure sectors.

What You Will Do

• Become part of an expanding team of Project Managers, with a focus on 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.
• 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 development will be supported with access to WSP’s training, development tools and resources.
• Integrate into our team’s flexible working culture, balancing home and office working, with safety and wellbeing as a priority.

Typical Day

• Ensure compliance with quality management systems and drive efficiencies in project execution.
• Provide leadership and guidance to project teams in a multi-disciplinary environment.
• Provide leadership and support to business development, cross-selling, networking, work winning, and marketing of WSP services.
• Organise and chair client meetings.
• Plan, monitor and control projects with values from £10m to £500m with autonomy.
• Manage project change and deliver projects within agreed commercial fee arrangements.
• Undertake contract management and administration under a range of framework and standalone contracts.
• Undertake leadership and line management responsibilities for a team.
• Deliver projects within agreed financial metrics and make decisions on complex issues, providing direction on approach and priorities.

What We Will Be Looking For

• Professional qualification in project management, quantity surveying and/or an engineering discipline.
• Excellent leadership skills and strong relationship-building and interpersonal abilities.
• Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Maths (STEM) or similar.
• NEC accreditation in Project Management.
• Membership of professional institutions, preferably Chartered.
• Proven record of delivering complex, high-risk infrastructure projects; experience in water, linear infrastructure or environmental projects is beneficial, with a focus on developing a project management career.
• 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 related field.
• Experience working in a collaborative integrated delivery team.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and advocacy of best practice.

About Us

We are a leading engineering and professional services firm with a global scale. Our people are united by a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion, delivering positive, long-lasting impacts in communities worldwide. We offer development opportunities through training, mentoring, and Chartership.

What’s In It For You

• Work-life balance with a hybrid working policy; flexibility to work from home two days a week and access to modern offices across the UK.
• Inclusivity and belonging: we value diverse backgrounds and provide channels for authentic representation.
• Health & wellbeing: Thrive programme, Virtual GP service, workplace adjustments, gym membership discounts, and menopause support.
• Flexible time options and benefits: WSP My Hour, part-time and flexible working arrangements, additional leave, and bank holiday flexibility.
• Your development: support for training, mentoring, and Chartership.

Equal Opportunity

We encourage applications from suitably qualified candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion/belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. We interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria and offer workplace adjustments as needed.