Senior Project Manager, Water & Environment

WSP; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Project Manager to join its expanding team, focusing on diverse infrastructure projects. This role offers a unique opportunity to lead high-value projects while contributing to a culture that values curiosity and diverse perspectives. You'll engage with global clients and collaborate with talented professionals, ensuring project success through effective management and compliance with quality standards. With strong support for career development, this position is perfect for someone eager to grow within the project management field and make a meaningful impact in the community.

Qualifications

• Professional qualification in project management or engineering discipline.
• Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Maths (STEM).
• Competence in stakeholder management and commercial management.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with quality management systems and drive efficiencies.
• Provide leadership and guidance to project teams.
• Manage projects with values from £1m to £100m.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Risk Management

Planning/Scheduling

Commercial Management

Project Management Tools

Education

Degree in STEM

Professional Qualification in Project Management

Tools

Project Management Software

Job description

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…

Become a part of an expanding team of Project Managers, with a focus on your career growth, delivering diverse projects for a wide range of global clients, focusing on the infrastructure, natural environment, water, flood defence, and earth and environment sectors. With over 10,000 colleagues in the UK, our projects include highways, rail, urban infrastructure, energy, flood, water, wind energy, nuclear, defence and large-scale utilities.

Your Team

You will be part of our wider Project Management and Commercial Management Team (PMCM), made up of over 400 professionals across the UK and sit within our Civil Infrastructure and Utilities Group. Your future development will be actively supported with access to WSP’s full range of training, development tools and resources.

You will integrate into our team’s flexible working culture, offering a balance of home and office working, where safety and wellbeing are paramount.

A typical Day wouldinclude

• Ensuring compliance with quality management systems, and drive efficiencies throughout project execution;
• Providing leadership and guidance to project teams in a multi-disciplinary environment;
• Providing support to work winning and team leaders in marketing WSP services
• Organising and chairing client meetings;
• Work with autonomy (limited guidance) to plan, monitor and control projects with values from £1m to £100m;
• Effectively manage project change and deliver projects within agreed commercial fee arrangements;
• Undertake contract management and administration under a range of framework and standalone contracts;
• Undertaking line manager responsibilities for Assistant, Graduate/Undergraduate PMs;
• Taking accountability for delivering projects within agreed financial metrics;
• Making decisions on complex issues and providing direction regarding approach and priorities

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.

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…

• Professional qualification in project management, quantity surveying and/or an engineering discipline.
• Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Maths (STEM) or similar disciplines;
• Undertaken NEC accreditation and attained the necessary technical and practical skills to lead and administer NEC Contracts;
• Membership of professional institutions such as: Association for Project Management (APM), Project Management Institute (PMI), Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) or Member of Institute of Civil Engineers (MICE);
• A background in water, linear infrastructure and/or environmental projects would be beneficial, but our focus is upon your ability and desire to develop your project management career to its full potential and demonstrateagility and transferability.
• Demonstrate competence in stakeholder management, risk, planning/scheduling, and commercial management.
• Proficiency in use of project management tools and software;
• Evidence of higher attainment and professional development in project management or current field

The opportunity is suitable for an individual with previous experience in Project Management, Civil Engineering Quantity Surveying, or Commercial Management with a desire to focus on Project Management and develop a career in this area.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

With us, you can.Apply today.

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