Project Officer jobs in United Kingdom

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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 would include:

• 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 leadership and support to business development, cross-selling, networking, work winning, and supporting the marketing of WSP services;
• Organising and chairing client meetings;
• Work with autonomy to plan, monitor and control projects with values from £10m to £500m;
• Effectively manage project change and deliver projects within agreed commercial arrangements;
• Undertake contract management and administration under a range of framework and standalone contracts;
• Undertaking leadership role and line manager responsibilities for a team;
• 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.
• Excellent leadership skills, and can build and maintain relationships with good interpersonal skills;
• Degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Maths (STEM) or similar disciplines;
• Undertaken and obtained NEC accreditation in Project Management;
• Membership of professional institutions, preferably Chartered;
• A record of delivering complex, high-risk projects successfully including working on large infrastructure projects and programmes. 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 demonstrate 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.
• Demonstrable experience in a collaborative integrated delivery team.
• Natural communicator, negotiator, and champion of good practice.

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.



About Us

We are one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Our 69,300 passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and . With over 9,000 professionals across the UK and Ireland, we are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

Work-life balance

At WSP, we understand that work is just one aspect of your life. It’s important to make time for you, your family, friends, interests and your community.

Our hybrid working policy offers the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while also providing opportunities to collaborate in our modern offices across the UK.

Inclusivity & Diversity

We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We enable rewarding careers by encouraging people to bring their whole and authentic selves to work so that our work represents the fullest spectrum of society. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing to create a culture of inclusivity and belonging at WSP. We have our employee resource groups bring together employees and allies with different backgrounds to promote a culture of inclusivity.

Health & Wellbeing

We are committed to supporting our people, giving you the tools to make improvements to your health and wellbeing through our Thrive programme.

Med24 offers you and your family unlimited telephone access to an NHS doctor, available 24/7, with options for face-to-face video consultations. We also provide reasonable workplace adjustments for those in need. Additionally, you can benefit from the Gymflex scheme, which offers up to 40% off annual gym memberships through our WSP flexible benefits program, as well as a comprehensive menopause support package.

Flex your time

To enhance work-life balance, WSP offers the “WSP My Hour,” allowing you to take one hour each day for personal activities, with the flexibility to make up the time earlier or later that day.

We also provide part-time and flexible working arrangements, the option to purchase additional leave, and the ability to use your bank holiday entitlement to suit you.

Your development

We understand the importance of development and training to you. That’s why we foster a supportive environment that invests in your growth, whether through training, mentoring, or Chartership.

#WeAreWSP

Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of disability, gender, gender identity, reassignment, or belief, marital status, or maternity/paternity. As a confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria; please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.