Location
Bristol

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.
Our Regulated Water Asset Design team serves the municipal water sector both in the UK and internationally. We hold long term framework agreements direct with water companies, including Severn Trent Water and South West Water. We also maintain excellent relationships and trading agreements with blue chip contractors, including Costain and Galliford Try, delivering projects across the UK. We provide a full range of design services across wastewater treatment, water treatment, sewerage and water network schemes.
Our hybrid working model enables staff to mix working from home with our top quality office environments.
We are guided by the following principles: We value our people and our reputation. We are locally dedicated with international scale. We are future-focused and challenge the status quo. We foster collaboration in everything we do. We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable.
A little more about your role… Due to a significant increase in demand for our services, we are actively recruiting to support the AMP8 water industry capital investment programme. If you have relevant water industry design experience, we can offer tailored opportunities to fulfil your career ambitions. Equally, if you are working in a different engineering sector, mentoring programmes and training are available to support your transition to the water sector.

Key Responsibilities:
- Take ownership for all aspects of project delivery including health & safety, technical, quality, schedule and budget
- Manage multi-disciplinary teams
- Shape the delivery of our services and identify opportunities to deliver complementary services from the wider WSP business in the UK and overseas
- Build relationships with Clients to ensure project outcomes and customer satisfaction
- Contribute to the identification and delivery of innovative approaches, new services and digital products
- Support the implementation of our Future Ready and Net Zero programme
- Act as an ambassador for best practice within the Asset Design team and on Client sponsored initiatives
- Undertake bid preparation, resource and budget development
- Line manage and support the professional development of graduate engineers and degree apprentices
- Contribute to recruitment and growth of the civil engineering team
- Continue your career journey through ongoing development of your technical, managerial and leadership skills

Experience
- Degree in Civil Engineering
- Chartered status or significant progression towards membership of ICE or CIWEM
- Experience managing engineering design teams comprising civil engineers and supporting disciplines
- Proven track record delivering projects to identified budgets and schedules
- Experience in checking or technical approval roles on linear civil engineering infrastructure projects or industrial/process related design
- Experience mentoring or coaching junior civil engineering staff
- Client-facing experience with strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills

About you
Motivated and collaborative professional with a passion for delivering high-quality engineering solutions. Able to lead teams effectively and build strong client relationships. Committed to continuous professional development and embracing innovation and sustainability in engineering practice.

Qualifications
Degree in Civil Engineering and Chartered Engineer status or working towards it.