Senior Environmental Delivery Director

WSP in the UK & Ireland; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP in the UK & Ireland seeks an environmental construction consultant delivery lead to join our Environmental Management & Assessment team. You will guide post-consent and secondary consents delivery across major infrastructure projects, shaping decisions from design through to delivery.

The role requires leadership, programme awareness and the ability to coordinate multiple disciplines, ensuring safe, compliant, high-quality outcomes for clients.

Qualifications

• Experience in pre-construction and construction environmental management and delivery, secondary consents, and DCO/TCPA implementation.
• Strong understanding of the transition from primary consent to construction, including discharge of requirements/conditions, environmental management plans, contractor interfaces and compliance assurance.
• Working client-side, consultant-side or contractor-side during pre-construction and construction phases, including management of contractor interfaces and delivery risks.
• Establishing governance, reporting and assurance processes to manage environmental commitments, consent compliance and construction-stage risks.
• Coordinating secondary permits, licences, authorisations, notifications and consents across major infrastructure projects.
• Strong programme awareness, with the ability to understand dependencies, determination periods, seasonal constraints, delivery milestones and project-critical risks.
• Experience of problem-solving and conflict resolution.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex consenting requirements into clear actions for clients, contractors and project teams.
• Proven ability to provide leadership in ambiguous or fast-moving delivery environments, bringing clarity, structure and momentum.
• Strong commercial awareness, including the ability to scope commissions, support proposals, manage budgets and understand resource requirements.
• Proven ability to mentor and lead junior colleagues, helping build capability and resilience across teams.
• Chartered status, or working towards chartership, with a relevant professional body would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Lead the growth of WSP's environmental construction and secondary consents capability, working with sector leads, account managers and service line directors to identify market opportunities and shape future service offerings.
• Oversee the identification, scoping and programming of environmental construction and secondary consent requirements, ensuring they are understood early and translated into clear delivery plans.
• Act as a recognised internal and external focal point for environmental construction and secondary consents delivery, providing technical leadership, guidance and consistency across projects and sectors.
• Act as Project Director or senior strategic lead on key post-consent and construction commissions, ensuring safe, profitable and high-quality delivery.
• Advise on the discharge of environmental planning conditions and/or DCO requirements.
• Develop and implement environmental compliance processes throughout design development stages.
• Work with planners and project controls teams to integrate secondary consent activities into project programmes, including determination periods, seasonal windows, survey requirements, design dependencies, land access and contractor mobilisation.
• Work with discipline leaders and project teams to forecast demand, identify resource constraints and develop recruitment, secondment and capability-building plans.
• Identify resource needs early, support project resourcing discussions and help develop internal capability through mentoring, training and knowledge sharing.
• Promote a positive, inclusive and safe working culture, with a strong understanding of health, safety and wellbeing requirements in construction-facing and site-related environments.
• Contribute to WSP’s business strategy by helping build a scalable, consistent and commercially robust post-consent and construction offering.

Skills

Environmental management

Project leadership

Programme management

Stakeholder management

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

WSP in the UK & Ireland seeks an environmental construction consultant delivery lead to join our Environmental Management & Assessment team. You will guide post-consent and secondary consents delivery across major infrastructure projects, shaping decisions from design through to delivery.

The role requires leadership, programme awareness and the ability to coordinate multiple disciplines, ensuring safe, compliant, high-quality outcomes for clients.