Location
London & South East

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
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.

WSP are seeking an enthusiastic and talented Project Manager to join the Roads team based in London & South East. Your role will be at the heart of our high performing team, using your project management skills and expertise to help us continue to successfully deliver projects effectively and efficiently for our clients.

You can expect your role to involve:
- Managing the delivery of highways projects for public and private sector clients across the UK, through planning, design and construction stages.
- Ensuring compliance with quality management systems, and driving efficiencies throughout project execution.
- Providing guidance and support to a team of experienced and developing technical staff of various grades.
- Contributing to the development of the team’s internal knowledge base.
- Mentoring and upskilling junior staff, helping them develop professionally and progress towards professional qualifications.
- Working with limited supervision to plan, execute, monitor and control projects as well as effectively managing project change.
- Undertaking contract management and administration under a range of framework and standalone contracts.

Your clients will range from local authorities in the South East and London area, national infrastructure agencies and private developers in a diverse range of sectors. Your team will comprise Engineers in the UK supported by remote resources in India – this worldwide representation brings a diverse culture to your team.

You will be active on several varied multi-disciplinary project/client accounts at any given time and work collaboratively with clients, key stakeholders and internal teams, as necessary to deliver the schemes/projects.

Experience
Professional qualification in project management and/or an engineering discipline.
Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Maths (STEM) subject.
Undertaken NEC accreditation and attained the necessary technical and practical skills to lead and administer NEC Contracts.
Membership of professional institutions such as Association for Project Management (APM), Project Management Institute (PMI), Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) or Member of Institute of Civil Engineers (MICE).
Background in highway/linear infrastructure projects is beneficial but not essential.
Competence in stakeholder management, risk, planning/scheduling, and commercial management.
Proficiency in use of project management tools and software.
Experience complying with Designers Duties under CDM regulations.

About you
Ability and desire to develop your project management career to its full potential.
Demonstrate agility and transferability in your skills.
Enthusiastic and motivated to work within a diverse and collaborative team environment.

Qualifications
Professional project management or engineering qualifications as outlined above.
NEC accreditation preferred.
Membership of relevant professional institutions.