Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

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.

Are you ready for the next step in your career? Are you eager to develop and help deliver and grow our portfolio of high-profile projects, solving environmental and water resources challenges faced by the water industry? Our water and aquatic ecology teams have a proud track record of supporting water companies in England and Wales with these challenges.

Due to the scale of work required for AMP8, we are looking for experienced and committed individuals to join our water team to manage WINEP water resources projects. Your role will sit within the Catchment Science team in our Sustainable Water Management Consulting group, working with experienced multi-disciplinary teams of technical experts including hydrogeologists, hydrologists, geomorphologists and hydro-ecologists.

The role will be varied and will include:
- Working across the Sustainable Water Management and Aquatic Ecology teams to manage and support the delivery of robust technical assessments and high quality reporting
- Leading day-to-day client and regulator engagement for delivery of WINEP investigations
- Project management including financial and change control and quality assurance through checking and reviewing
- Working with Service Area leads to support development and delivery of our pipeline of WINEP projects
- Generating high quality bid proposals and developing innovative solutions to meet our clients' needs
- Displaying and promoting a 'safety first' attitude in line with WSP's health and safety policy and procedures

We are looking for experienced and enthusiastic self-starters capable of both independent work and teamwork. You will be highly motivated with excellent communication skills, able to apply your own technical knowledge and collaborate with others to analyse problems and find solutions to new challenges.

We encourage cross-disciplinary work, offering opportunities on wider projects such as water resources, hydrogeology, water quality, flood risk management and environmental impact assessment. There is opportunity to shape this role and related seniority to suit the right candidate.

Your Team
Our Catchment Science team works across a wide spectrum of services covering water resources and security, hydrology and hydraulics, water quality, hydro-ecology and hydrogeology. We provide high quality technical services and advice to high-profile customers in the UK and overseas, including government departments and agencies, the water industry, and a wide range of other industrial sectors.

Over AMP7 we have seen significant growth in demand for our skills across the UK Water Company Sector and associated Regulators. This demand is forecast to increase further during AMP8, so we are recruiting additional Senior/Principal level technical and Project Management specialists. We offer a dynamic but supportive environment for motivated and talented individuals to fulfil their potential, recognising that our people are central to our success as a business.

Experience
- Managing WINEP investigations or similar projects, including project and technical management
- Ability to manage a wider team of experts to deliver robust technical assessments
- Clear understanding of regulatory requirements and expectations of WINEP investigations, particularly relating to the Water Framework Directive
- Ideally experience in projects assessing impacts of abstraction on the water environment
- Ability to understand hydrological or hydro-ecological approaches and work with technical experts to deliver projects
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the potential to engage and influence at all levels
- Strong commercial awareness and understanding of client needs
- Experience identifying and developing business opportunities and preparing winning proposals
- Excellent report-writing and technical review skills

About you
Experienced and enthusiastic self-starter who can work independently and as part of a team. Highly motivated with excellent communication skills. Able to apply technical knowledge and collaborate to solve complex challenges. Open to working across disciplines and contributing to wider projects.

Qualifications
- MSc and/or BSc degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. earth sciences, environmental science, geography)
- Gained or working towards chartership with a relevant professional body