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, and experience a world of opportunity to shape a career as unique as you.

As a Senior Environmental Project Manager, you will be a visible environmental leader within WSP's Earth & Environment discipline. Reporting to the Environmental Project Management Team Leader, you will focus on project delivery in a senior leadership capacity, typically as the designated Project Manager or Project Director. You will lead multi-disciplinary projects, some environmental-led and others as part of wider engineering teams, delivering some of the UK's most exciting and nationally important large-scale infrastructure schemes.

Your projects will span key sectors including highways, rail, aviation, defence, nuclear, residential and property, energy generation and renewables, and transmission and distribution. You will support all stages of the project cycle, including planning and construction phases.

Key responsibilities include:
- Acting as Environmental lead project manager on large, complex, and high-value multi-disciplinary projects
- Ensuring implementation of project management fundamentals including programme, commercial, and quality management
- Promoting health and safety, inclusion, and diversity within project teams
- Forming and managing high-performing project teams, inspiring and energising them to deliver exemplary work
- Delivering environmental principles such as regulatory compliance, mitigation and management of environmental impact, stakeholder engagement, and sustainability
- Overseeing baseline data management, survey planning, and interface with enabling works
- Actively managing project change and risks, ensuring adherence to project governance and delivering optimised outcomes

Join a committed and successful Project Management team proud of its friendly, supportive, and collaborative culture that fosters skill development and growth. Be part of a centre of excellence within WSP and contribute to projects that make a positive impact on communities both locally and globally.

Experience
- Proven experience as an environmental consultant with strong knowledge of environmental impact assessments, sustainability, regulatory compliance, baseline data management, survey planning, and construction or enabling works interface
- Demonstrated track record managing multi-disciplinary environmental projects with a focus on client satisfaction and high-quality outcomes
- Experience leading project teams, fostering collaboration, and ensuring successful project delivery within agreed parameters
- Strong commercial and contractual management skills, including handling Professional Services Contracts such as NEC3/4
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to clearly articulate key points to diverse audiences

About you
- Passionate about optimising project delivery and leading inclusive, supportive teams
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to inspire and energise project teams
- Committed to health and safety, inclusion, and diversity principles
- Collaborative mindset with a focus on delivering positive environmental and community outcomes

Qualifications
- Relevant professional qualifications in environmental science, project management, or related disciplines are desirable
- Membership or working towards membership of relevant professional bodies is advantageous