Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
What if you could shape a career as unique as you? At WSP, you can always find opportunities to grow and do what matters to you. Make the most of our global reach to discover new challenges and chances to work with diverse, talented individuals who will help you expand your horizons. The WSP Pavement Engineering team is seeking a Project Manager to be part of this established and experienced team working on exciting large-scale projects. Due to recent successes, the team is growing and offers excellent opportunities for the right candidate seeking new and exciting challenges. The successful candidate will join an existing team to project manage pavement design and maintenance projects for clients both in the UK and overseas. You will assist the engineering team in delivering projects through various stages of design from feasibility and option studies to detailed design and construction. You will support discipline leads to ensure projects are delivered safely, to a high quality, on time, and within budget.

A little more about your role…
- Support pavement engineering discipline leads to deliver client expectations.
- Coordinate project meetings and target-led workshops, resolving critical issues promptly.
- Establish robust processes and procedures to manage projects in conjunction with client teams.
- Act as primary point of contact for clients, ensuring their needs and expectations are met throughout design and construction phases.
- Compile monthly project reports to provide senior managers with clarity on project status.
- Facilitate regular project meetings, presentations, and progress reports.
- Manage contracts in accordance with contract rules of engagement, including NEC3 and NEC4.
- Manage project budgets, including cost estimation, tracking, and reporting.
- Manage project changes and delays, ensuring resolution or mitigation through change control.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, ensuring effective collaboration between pavement, drainage, structures, geotechnical, environmental, and traffic disciplines.
- Support commercial management activities including Early Warnings, Compensation Events, change control, forecasting, and budget management.
- Define project scope, goals, and deliverables in collaboration with clients, project teams, and stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with CDM 2015, health and safety requirements, client standards, and relevant industry specifications.
- Prepare, maintain, and monitor project programmes using MS Project, Primavera P6, or similar software.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all. Work on landmark projects around the world and embrace opportunities to make an even bigger impact in the communities you care about. What if you could do the best work of your life and create a legacy for yourself? With us, you can. Apply today.

Experience
- Proven experience managing NEC3 and NEC4 contracts.
- Experience delivering significant projects with demonstrable client-side project delivery (design and build).
- Experience working with organisations such as National Highways, TfL, or other highways clients is advantageous.
- Proven ability to manage successful workstreams within a multidisciplinary delivery team.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Knowledge and competence in Oracle Cloud Application and CEMAR (Contract Management and Reporting Software) is advantageous.

About you
- Strong leadership and communication skills to coordinate multidisciplinary teams.
- Client-focused with the ability to act as a primary point of contact and manage expectations.
- Highly organised with strong commercial awareness and ability to manage budgets and contracts.
- Proactive problem solver with the ability to resolve issues and manage project changes effectively.
- Committed to health and safety compliance and quality delivery.

Qualifications
- Relevant project management qualifications or equivalent experience preferred.
- Competence in project management software such as MS Project or Primavera P6.