Senior Director, Environmental Construction Delivery

WSP Global Inc.; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP Global Inc. is seeking an Environmental Construction Consultant Delivery Lead to join our Environmental Management & Assessment team in the United Kingdom.

The role focuses on moving projects from post-consent into delivery, guiding environmental licences, permits, and planning requirements to enable construction. You will lead cross-disciplinary teams, coordinate post-consent delivery across major infrastructure projects, and shape service offerings.

Qualifications

• Experience in pre-construction and construction environmental management and delivery, secondary consents, and DCO/TCPA implementation.
• Strong understanding of transition from primary consent to construction, including discharge of requirements/conditions and compliance assurance.
• Experience working client-side, consultant-side or contractor-side during pre-construction and construction phases with management of interfaces and delivery risks.
• Ability to establish governance, reporting and assurance processes for environmental commitments and consent compliance.
• Coordination of secondary permits, licences, authorisations, notifications and consents across major infrastructure projects.
• Strong programme awareness and ability to understand dependencies, determination periods, seasonal constraints, and delivery milestones.
• Proven ability to lead in ambiguous or fast-moving delivery environments with clear direction and momentum.

Responsibilities

• Lead the growth of the environmental construction and secondary consents capability, working with sector leads and account managers.
• Oversee identification, scoping and programming of environmental construction and secondary consent requirements.
• Act as a focal point for environmental construction delivery, providing leadership and consistency across projects.
• Serve as Project Director or senior strategic lead on post-consent and construction commissions, ensuring safe, profitable delivery.
• Advise on discharge of environmental planning conditions and DCO requirements.
• Develop and implement environmental compliance processes through design development stages.
• Coordinate with planners and project controls to integrate secondary consent activities into project programmes.

Skills

Environmental management

Delivery leadership

Governance & assurance

Programme awareness

Risk management

Mentoring juniors

Chartered status advantageous

Tools

Primavera P6

Project controls tools

Job description

WSP Global Inc. is seeking an Environmental Construction Consultant Delivery Lead to join our Environmental Management & Assessment team in the United Kingdom.

The role focuses on moving projects from post-consent into delivery, guiding environmental licences, permits, and planning requirements to enable construction. You will lead cross-disciplinary teams, coordinate post-consent delivery across major infrastructure projects, and shape service offerings.