Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive salary package

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. Embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. Experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

Become part of an expanding team of Project Managers focused on career growth, delivering diverse projects for global clients in infrastructure, natural environment, water, flood defence, and earth and environment sectors. With over 10,000 colleagues in the UK, our projects include highways, rail, urban infrastructure, energy, flood, water, wind energy, nuclear, defence, and large-scale utilities.

You will be part of the wider Project Management and Commercial Management Team (PMCM), made up of over 400 professionals across the UK, within our Civil Infrastructure and Utilities Group. Your development will be actively supported with access to WSP's full range of training, development tools, and resources. You will integrate into a flexible working culture, balancing home and office working, where safety and wellbeing are paramount.

A typical day includes:
- Ensuring compliance with quality management systems and driving efficiencies throughout project execution
- Providing leadership and guidance to project teams in a multi-disciplinary environment
- Supporting business development, cross-selling, networking, work winning, and marketing of WSP services
- Organising and chairing client meetings
- Planning, monitoring, and controlling projects with values from £10m to £500m with autonomy
- Managing project change and delivering projects within agreed commercial fee arrangements
- Undertaking contract management and administration under various framework and standalone contracts
- Leading and line managing a team
- Taking accountability for delivering projects within agreed financial metrics
- Making decisions on complex issues and providing direction regarding approach and priorities

Experience
- Proven track record delivering complex, high-risk projects successfully, including large infrastructure projects and programmes
- Experience in Project Management, Civil Engineering Quantity Surveying, or Commercial Management with a desire to focus on Project Management
- Demonstrable experience working in collaborative integrated delivery teams
- Competence in stakeholder management, risk, planning/scheduling, and commercial management
- Proficiency in project management tools and software

About you
- Excellent leadership skills with the ability to build and maintain strong relationships
- Natural communicator, negotiator, and champion of good practice
- Desire to develop your project management career to its full potential and demonstrate transferability
- Ability to work autonomously and take accountability for project delivery
- Enthusiastic about contributing to a diverse and inclusive culture

Qualifications
- Professional qualification in project management, quantity surveying, and/or an engineering discipline
- Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Maths (STEM) or similar discipline
- NEC accreditation in Project Management
- Membership of professional institutions, preferably Chartered
- Evidence of higher attainment and professional development in project management or current field