Environmental Advisory Manager — Remote & Strategic Lead

Careers at UAE; Dubai; On-site; AED 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job description

Environmental Manager – Environment Advisory

Environmental Manager will be responsible for the following:

• Health & Safety – Oversight of Health & Safety and wellbeing of staff within your discipline.
• Business development – You will be responsible for supporting the other sector leads and pushing forward business development within your discipline. Your role will include liaison with new and potential clients; both internal and external to WSP.
• Commercial – Tracking and reviewing the commercial performance for your discipline to ensure that KPI’s are met. Reporting up to the Environment Advisory and the P&L Director in detail.
• Operations – You will be responsible for ensuring that your discipline works in conjunction with other disciplines supporting a ‘One National Team’ approach. This includes:
  • Oversight of weekly resourcing.
  • Supporting the integration of teams with other disciplines
  • Weekly communications including acting as the main point of flow of communications from higher management.
  • Ensuring that company messaging has been received by the team.(as required)
  • Technical support on projects within your area of expertise. This includes authorisations of deliverables.
• People Management – Regular team meetings with all members of your discipline, mentoring and supporting team members to help progress their careers.

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

• BSc and MSc degree level qualified in a relevant environmental or engineering discipline.
• Membership of a relevant professional body (i.e. IEMA or equivalent) and preferably chartered status.
• Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in managing large complex environmental projects across a number of disciplines.
• Experience of working in an international consultancy.
• Experience in undertaking air dispersion or noise modeling could be advantageous.
• Ability to work across multiple disciplines and a flexible mindset to working.
• Experience in providing technical alternatives and solutions to technical clarifications and design solutions to clients.
• Significant proofing, editing, and report collation experience.
• Excellent written English and verbal communication, presentation and organizational skills.
• Experience in working on multiple projects, simultaneously.
• Robust project management, time management and financial management skills.
• Collaborative mindset and outcome-driven working method.

What’s in it for you?

WSP recognizes that work is only one part of our lives and encourages a healthy work‑life balance. To support flexibility, we offer options for working from home, part time or flexible start and finish times. In addition to competitive pay, we provide standard benefits including first‑class medical cover, generous annual leave and paid professional subscriptions.