Project Manager

WSP; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy in Leeds is seeking a skilled Project Manager to join their Local Government team. The role involves managing structures and highways related projects while ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. You will engage with clients and stakeholders, prepare reports, and contribute to project excellence. Ideal candidates will have relevant project management experience, strong organizational skills, and a commitment to delivering results. This position offers a hybrid working model, with flexibility between home and office environments.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in project management is essential.
• APM or PRINCE professional qualifications would be desirable.
• Experience in commercial and financial project management required.

Responsibilities

• Manage the delivery of structures and highways related projects.
• Prepare progress reports and engage with stakeholders.
• Contribute to project management excellence and comply with standards.

Skills

Project management

Client engagement

Commercial management

Health and Safety knowledge

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Education

APM or PRINCE qualifications

Job description

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.

A little more about your role…

We are looking to recruit a Project Manager to join our WSP Local Government team. The role can be based from our offices in Leeds or Stockton, with hybrid working allowing for a mix of home- and in-office working. This is a varied role with your core responsibilities being:

• Managing the delivery of structures and highways related projects.
• Managing resources providing scheme investigation, feasibility studies, preliminary/detailed design, tender documents, site inspections, data collection and analysis, and works/construction inspection and supervision.
• Preparing progress reports and attending client project review meetings.
• Engaging with a wide range of project stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery.
• Applying your working knowledge of Health, Safety and Welfare and CDM responsibilities.
• Contributing to project management excellence and innovation within team.
• Complying with ISO standards, client processes and procedures and WSP’s business management system.

Your Team

You will be an integral part of our high performing project management teams in Leeds and Northallerton. Our teams are friendly, collaborative and our ethos is based on trust, integrity and fairness. Both teams are fundamental to our delivery of projects for both private sector and Local Authority clients, including our key local client, Leeds City Council, who we have been in partnership with for over 20 years.

You will have the fantastic opportunity to support our project managers delivering a wide range of interesting and significant projects – from schemes such as the award winning Regent Street Flyover through to a diverse range of bridge refurbishment and maintenance improvements as well as feasibility studies and bridge inspection and assessment work throughout the UK.

You will follow agreed WSP Project Management systems and processes and industry best practice provided by the Association for Project Management (APM).

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…

• Relevant experience in project management.
• APM or PRINCE professional qualifications would be desirable.
• Experience of commercial and financial project management.
• Experience in managing a range of project management activities, systems and processes.
• Proficient in client and project stakeholder engagement.
• Working knowledge of Health, Safety and Welfare.
• Working knowledge of CDM.
• The ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong organisational skills and excellent communications skills.

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

With us, you can. Apply today.