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Become a part of an expanding team of Project Managers, with a focus on your career growth, delivering diverse projects for a wide range of global clients, focusing on the 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.

About the Role:

YOUR TEAM

You will be part of our wider Project Management and Commercial Management Team (PMCM), made up of over 400 professionals across the UK and sit within our Civil Infrastructure and Utilities Group. Your future development will be actively supported with access to WSP’s full range of training, development tools and resources.

You will integrate into our team’s flexible working culture, offering a balance of home and office working, where safety and wellbeing are paramount.

A typical Day would include:

• Ensuring compliance with quality management systems, and drive efficiencies throughout project execution;

• Providing leadership and guidance to project teams in a multi-disciplinary environment;

• Providing support to work winning and team leaders in marketing WSP services

• Organising and chairing client meetings;

• Work with autonomy (limited guidance) to plan, monitor and control projects with values from £1m to £100m;

• Effectively manage project change and deliver projects within agreed commercial fee arrangements;

• Undertake contract management and administration under a range of framework and standalone contracts;

• Undertaking line manager responsibilities for Assistant, Graduate/Undergraduate PMs;

• Taking accountability for delivering projects within agreed financial metrics;

• Making decisions on complex issues and providing direction regarding approach and priorities

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Professional qualification in project management, quantity surveying and/or an engineering discipline.

• Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Maths (STEM) or similar disciplines;

• Undertaken NEC accreditation and attained the necessary technical and practical skills to lead and administer NEC Contracts;

• Membership of professional institutions such as: Association for Project Management (APM), Project Management Institute (PMI), Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) or Member of Institute of Civil Engineers (MICE);

• A background in water, linear infrastructure and/or environmental projects would be beneficial, but our focus is upon your ability and desire to develop your project management career to its full potential and demonstrate agility and transferability.

• Demonstrate competence in stakeholder management, risk, planning/scheduling, and commercial management.

• Proficiency in use of project management tools and software;

• Evidence of higher attainment and professional development in project management or current field

The opportunity is suitable for an individual with previous experience in Project Management, Civil Engineering Quantity Surveying, or Commercial Management with a desire to focus on Project Management and develop a career in this area.

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