Location
London Westferry Office

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. This is a fantastic opportunity to join WSP as part of an expanding team delivering a variety of prestigious projects. Join our team to help design and construct the tallest buildings in the world, iconic sports venues, reimagine historic structures and develop new ways of working by creating kit-of-parts. We have a diverse portfolio of projects working across all sectors, making this a great opportunity to progress your career working in a friendly, inclusive team on some of the world’s most exciting projects.

You will be joining our expanding Building Structures team as a full-time Associate, responsible for project management, technical leadership and delivery of schemes from inception through to handover of the completed scheme to the client. In this role you will:
- Develop innovative and sustainable designs from concept for a wide range of challenging UK and international multi-disciplinary design projects including high-rise, stadia/arenas, urban regeneration, healthcare, commercial & mixed use, major refurbishment and data centres
- Take a key technical leadership role on multi-disciplinary design projects from concept through detailed design, coordinating with Architects, Engineers and specialist consultants
- Participate in or lead tender bids and business development opportunities
- Participate in fee agreements and manage the commercial position on projects
- Exercise independent judgement and resolve technical issues
- Access a world-leading network of industry experts
- Mentor and develop junior team members working towards their Chartership

You will work closely with a diverse and talented team that owns and leads the design process, encouraging delivery of solutions to agreed programmes and supporting less experienced colleagues through technical review, mentoring and advice. You will take a strategic lead role on large multi-disciplinary projects as well as providing bespoke structural solutions to niche and architecturally led concept designs. You will form working relationships with other WSP disciplines, external design consultants, stakeholders and clients. Your responsibilities will include managing processes to ensure technical issues and risks are resolved in a timely and cost-effective manner, providing sustainable structural solutions from concept through to detailed design and construction, and offering specialist advice on sustainable design, net zero carbon, MMC and DfMA.

Reporting to a senior member of the team, you will have the opportunity to work on some of the most exciting and high-profile major multi-disciplinary development projects across the UK and internationally. Our client base spans private and public sectors, encompassing regional and national clientele.

Experience
- Proven track record of successful design delivery on major and challenging multi-discipline building projects, particularly in concept design and project inception stages
- Project management and technical delivery leadership experience on medium to large schemes
- Ability to establish productive working relationships with colleagues, stakeholders and clients, communicating technical and non-technical information effectively
- Experience in commercial and technical management of projects using appropriate business tools
- Team management experience including line management and day-to-day operations
- Experience acting as lead client contact for consultancy services and fostering client relationships
- Solid experience in structural engineering design across all materials
- Detailed working knowledge of national codes and standards
- Proven understanding of the design process with working knowledge of brief/scope documents, design concepts and producing calculations
- Experience with structural design software such as ETABS, RAM Structural System, Tekla Structural Designer and Tedds
- Experience using Revit, Rhino and Grasshopper

About you
Motivated and collaborative professional with strong leadership skills and a passion for delivering innovative, sustainable structural solutions. You thrive in a multi-disciplinary environment and enjoy mentoring junior colleagues. You are adaptable and eager to contribute to a diverse portfolio of projects at both national and international levels.

Qualifications
- Degree or HNC/HND qualification in a relevant discipline
- Chartered status (MIStructE / MICE) or working towards chartership