Location
Glasgow

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.

We are particularly interested to hear from Project Management Professionals with previous experience providing Design or System Network Planning for Distribution and/or Transmission Companies in the UK and Ireland with technical expertise in high voltage substation design.

This role includes:
- Formation and management of project team, and identification of additional support requirements beyond WSP Energy Networks
- Definition and agreement of project deliverables with client and project team
- Responsibility for contract delivery, including management of client and stakeholders (external and internal)
- Creation of project plan and resourced programme for delivery of services
- Control of time and resources against forecast
- Monitoring, control, and reporting of progress against programme
- Cost forecasting and management of project spend
- Leading engineering design resources in development of project deliverables
- Support to the bid team in the development of proposals and tender responses
- Management of risk, change, and quality in project delivery
- Management of consultancy services to clients through frameworks

WSP has a long track record supporting utilities, contracting organisations, developers, owners and government agencies around the globe on transmission and distribution projects throughout the lifecycle. We respond to clients’ needs by harnessing our knowledge, technical leadership and project management skills, serving in diverse roles including as technical advisors, owner’s engineers, development engineers and lender’s engineers to solve complex transmission and distribution problems and produce innovative, high-quality, cost-effective solutions.

We have worked on every major element of power transmission and distribution network systems, including overhead power lines and towers, transformers and reactive compensation equipment, substations and switchyards, underground and submarine (undersea) cables, high-voltage direct current (HVDC) and extra high-voltage (EHV) networks, as well as supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and distribution management systems (DMS).

Energy Networks is a rapidly expanding team, dispersed across the UK and Ireland, supported by our WSP colleagues worldwide in the delivery of projects and services to clients.

Experience
- Leading the project management and delivery of energy transmission and distribution projects
- Prior experience or knowledge of the UK regulated and non-regulated transmission and distribution sectors
- Experience liaising directly with clients and building client relationships
- Proficient in MS Office suite applications, including MS Project
- Experience and competency in Primavera P6 would be an advantage

About you
Professional, proactive and able to manage multiple stakeholders effectively. You are motivated by delivering high-quality project outcomes and thrive in a collaborative environment. You embrace new ideas and diverse perspectives and are passionate about making a positive impact through your work.

Qualifications
- Professional project management qualifications such as APM or PMI
- Higher education qualifications in a relevant engineering discipline