Associate Director - Water Quality & Infrastructure Lead

WSP Global Inc.; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP Global Inc. invites an Associate Director/Technical Director to lead water quality projects within the Catchment Science team across UK infrastructure initiatives.

You will oversee technical delivery, project direction, and supervision of junior staff while shaping client solutions. Although based in the UK, you will collaborate with WSP teams globally, developing training, scopes of services, and new business opportunities, ensuring safety and high-quality outputs across major

Qualifications

• Degree-level qualifications in a relevant subject (e.g. geography, geology, geochemistry, earth/environmental science, civil engineering or similar);
• A higher degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. river or lake water quality, water chemistry, hydrogeochemistry, water management, environmental science, or similar), is desirable, but not essential;
• You will have gained, or be working towards chartership with a relevant professional body

Responsibilities

• Leading the technical delivery of projects covering all aspects of water quality
• Project Direction including financial and change control and quality assurance through checking and reviewing
• Mentoring, developing and supervising junior colleagues with opportunities for formal People Management
• Working with the Water Quality Service Lead to develop a programme of water quality training
• Working closely with the team and the Water Quality Service Lead to develop and agree scopes of services
• Generating high quality bid proposals and developing innovative solutions to meet our clients' needs
• Undertaking and supervising the production of, high quality client- and public-facing deliverables, demonstrated through excellence in communication and an ability to present the visualisation and interpretation of complex data
• Working collaboratively with other sectors/disciplines to deliver the water quality aspects of a wide range of challenging and engaging projects
• Displaying and promoting a 'safety first' attitude in line with WSP's health and safety policy and procedures

Skills

Water quality

Project management

Client engagement

Bid proposals

Numerical analysis

Data interpretation

Mentoring

People management

Commercial awareness

Technical reporting

Education

Geography / Geology / Environmental science

Higher degree in water quality / hydrochemistry (desirable)

Chartered status or towards chartership

Tools

HEWRAT

CEMPS

EMPS

Job description

WSP Global Inc. invites an Associate Director/Technical Director to lead water quality projects within the Catchment Science team across UK infrastructure initiatives.

You will oversee technical delivery, project direction, and supervision of junior staff while shaping client solutions. Although based in the UK, you will collaborate with WSP teams globally, developing training, scopes of services, and new business opportunities, ensuring safety and high-quality outputs across major