Project Coordinator - Nature & Environmental Projects

WSP in the UK & Ireland; Manchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP in the UK is seeking a Project Coordinator to join our National Nature Services Team in Manchester. You will coordinate project programmes, manage budgets, support bids, and nurture client relationships across interdisciplinary teams.

This role offers the chance to work on diverse projects with a collaborative team, developing in an office-based environment and contributing to successful delivery for a broad range of clients.

Qualifications

• Has an appropriate academic qualification in a related discipline.
• May be an ecologist (or work within another technical environmental discipline) who wishes to develop in an office-based project management and coordination direction.
• Is highly organised and be able to produce project programmes.
• Has good commercial awareness and an understanding of contract administration.
• Is solution-focussed and proactive communicator.

Responsibilities

• Overall resource planning – fortnightly comms with ecology PMs on key deadlines and survey resourcing and maintaining project programmes and managing project budgets, managing land access processes.
• Contributing to bids and tenders for new work alongside the other Team Members.
• Annual checks and renewal of subconsultants; preparation of subconsultant contracts and raising Purchase Orders.
• With the assistance of the Team, identify skills and resource gaps and consider outsourcing to other parts of the business and externally and training/upskilling requirements, or recruitment opportunities.
• Assistance with and helping facilitate Risk Assessments and Method Statements.
• Helping to nurture an enthusiastic, supportive, productive and fun working environment.
• Supporting on project communications with internal/external clients.
• Managing projects via Horizon including but not limited to project reviews monthly, associated project budget checks, amendments and uplifts, invoicing, scope creep and compensation events.
• Bidding feedback and client liaison.
• Establishing and maintaining client relationships;
• Where appropriate, participating in external and internal stakeholder engagement for project delivery and business development;
• Where appropriate, reviewing client deliverables and quality management across all aspects of project delivery;
• Providing solutions to client business challenges and improving performance through the analysis of existing organisational problems and development of plans for improvement;
• Facilitating implementation of business recommendations in strategic planning, operational efficiency and change management

Skills

Project coordination

Budget management

Contract administration

Client liaison

Risk assessment

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Related discipline degree

Tools

Horizon

Job description

WSP in the UK is seeking a Project Coordinator to join our National Nature Services Team in Manchester. You will coordinate project programmes, manage budgets, support bids, and nurture client relationships across interdisciplinary teams.

This role offers the chance to work on diverse projects with a collaborative team, developing in an office-based environment and contributing to successful delivery for a broad range of clients.