Associate Project Manager

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…

This is your opportunity to manage the delivery of large-scale projects in our Land discipline. Our clients are leading names in the aviation, highway, rail, energy & water industries, who rely on WSP to provide them with expert advice to ensure their large-scale infrastructure projects get off to the best possible start.

WSP has recently been appointed to several large-scale projects and needs a strong Project Manager to join us. Working within our Project Management Office (PMO), based in any of our UK offices, you will manage projects for our Land Services team, which is based in offices around the UK and in India.

You will be responsible for overseeing the delivery of projects and ensuring the objectives are clearly defined, appropriately resourced and successfully delivered within the agreed time, cost, and quality constraints. You will follow our Business Management System in terms of project and commercial governance and will work with external and internal stakeholders to ensure that project success criteria are managed and realised. You will work with the Project Director and Technical Leads to support the client through complex processes, anticipating their needs, managing their and our risks and ensuring that everyone’s expectations are aligned. You will have Assistant project managers at your disposal and be responsible for ensuring their tasks and objectives are clearly defined and are being met within the workload.

You, along with the Project Director will be responsible for the Safety, Health and Well-being of everyone working on the project. You will enable a diverse environment and culture where everyone feels included and follow WSP’s guiding principles at all times. 

Our hybrid working policy allows the flexibility to work from the comfort of your own home as well as collaborating in our contemporary offices across the UK.

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…

We are looking for an individual who can demonstrate extensive experience in being a client-facing Project Manager on high value projects. You will need a degree or appropriate PM qualifications and experience of NEC contracts. If you are not a member of a Professional Institution, you will need to demonstrate an ability and willingness to become one. Ideally, you will have some knowledge and experience of UK planning processes or demonstrate your ability to learn quickly.

Desirable

Working knowledge of the planning process including, but not limited to, Development Consent Orders, Compulsory Purchase Orders, Town and Country Planning Acts or the hybrid bill processes, to support technical delivery. 

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world. 

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