Team Lead – Environment

Sigma Earth; India; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP India seeks a senior leader to oversee the Environmental department, representing the team in India and ensuring health, safety, and quality across projects in collaboration with US colleagues.

You will drive project delivery, governance, risk management, and capability building, align with the GCC Charter, mentor staff, and support bids and client relationships.

Qualifications

• Proven knowledge of environment-related services in Australia.
• Senior technical leadership delivering projects for 15+ years.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead project delivery from inception to completion with a focus on timely, high-quality outputs.
• Represent the Environmental department in India and ensure alignment with global standards.
• Oversee health, safety, risk management, information security, and compliance.

Skills

Australian market knowledge

Australian project delivery

Communication skills

Technical leadership

English proficiency

Australian experience

Agility and mindset

Self-starting approach

Self-awareness

Professional conduct

Ethical behaviour

Travel availability

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Environmental Science or related field

Professional status: Engineer (P.E./Chartered) or equivalent (Australia)

Experience level: 15+ years in environmental services/consulting

Job description

Responsibilities

• Project delivery: Manage projects from inception to completion, providing technical leadership and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality outputs in collaboration with internal US colleagues.


• Department representation: Act as the key representative and visible face of the India-based Environmental department.


• Local compliance: Oversee local health and safety, employee welfare, risk management, information security, assessments, and compliance requirements.


• Programme and financial management: Lead project, programme, and financial management activities to ensure delivery against agreed objectives.


• Vision and values: Promote WSP’s Vision and Values across the team and daily operations.


• Charter alignment: Actively promote the Australian E&E GCC Charter and ensure the team delivers on its commitments.


• Multidisciplinary coordination: Interface with multidisciplinary project teams to support integrated project delivery.


• Technical deliverables: Supervise the preparation, review, and checking of documents, reports, and other technical outputs across environmental disciplines.


• Team leadership: Provide visible, inspiring leadership to the GCC Environment teams and ensure alignment with the broader Australia business.


• Professional development: Support team members in progressing toward professional accreditation or equivalent recognition.


• Performance reviews: Conduct staff appraisals and performance development reviews, providing constructive feedback and growth guidance.


• Recruitment and growth: Lead recruitment activities to achieve planned and budgeted team growth.


• Capability monitoring: Review team capability in required standards, processes, and software tools, and identify training needs with technical colleagues.


• Upskilling and capability building: Identify opportunities to upskill current resources or recruit new skills to expand services and strengthen delivery.


• Service expansion: Identify additional capabilities that can be brought into the GCC to enhance environmental service offerings.


• Quality management: Ensure quality procedures are properly implemented, maintained, and continuously improved.


• Performance improvement: Seek regular feedback on team performance and convert criticism into improvement opportunities through lessons learned and corrective actions.


• Client relationships: Build and maintain strong internal and external client relationships to support repeat business and client satisfaction.


• Bid support: Contribute to bids, proposals, and marketing materials.


• Operational process design: Support the design of operational processes, systems, quality measurement methods, and performance KPI frameworks.


• Design coordination: Ensure designs and outputs consider applicable Health & Safety, CDM, and Quality Assurance requirements.


• Standards interpretation: Interpret statutory and industry requirements, standards, and best practices and apply them to strategies and policies.


• Quality reviews: Review adherence to quality processes and implement corrective measures where needed.


• Safety and technical excellence: Lead the local Safety, Quality, Environmental, and Information Security agenda while developing technical excellence through training, mentoring, project reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Client / External Focus

• Colleague relationships: Maintain strong relationships with colleagues and contribute to team performance and client satisfaction.


• Knowledge sharing: Contribute technical insights and knowledge sharing through internal and external forums.


• Market awareness: Stay updated on market trends, competitor activity, and sector developments.

People

• Inclusive leadership: Lead people inclusively by clearly communicating the vision, defining responsibilities, delegating effectively, and providing constructive feedback.


• Team motivation: Inspire and motivate departmental staff to progress technically and professionally.


• Project leadership: Take a self-motivated leadership role in project work, with strong focus on timeliness, quality, and technical excellence.


• Change management: Guide people through change and support succession planning.


• Innovation culture: Encourage and support innovation across the team.


• Conflict management: Handle conflict professionally and constructively.


• Cross-cultural collaboration: Work effectively across cultures and disciplines, respecting and embracing diverse perspectives.

Business Focus

• Health and safety influence: Proactively influence and promote health, safety, and welfare across the team.


• Commercial performance: Deliver successful commercial outcomes by understanding, monitoring, and achieving agreed business targets.


• Technical quality: Take responsibility for the quality of technical outputs in line with WSP standards and client-specific requirements.


• Resource planning: Identify suitably qualified staff to deliver projects within budget and resource constraints.


• Systems and process mentoring: Champion agreed systems and processes and mentor others in their effective use.


• Performance improvement: Explore ways to add value and improve individual and team performance.


• Risk and change management: Manage opportunities, risks, project changes, and variations in a way that benefits the business.


• Budget utilization: Ensure budget utilization targets are met or exceeded.


• Earning capacity: Ensure budgeted earning capacity is achieved or exceeded.

Key Competencies / Skills / Qualifications

Mandatory Skills

• Australian market knowledge: Proven working knowledge of environment-related services and projects in the Australian market.


• Australian project delivery: Track record as a senior technical leader delivering Australian projects for at least 5 years.


• Communication skills: Excellent communication, internal client handling, interpersonal, and listening skills, with the ability to influence and engage people.


• Technical leadership: Strong technical management capability combined with business acumen and leadership skills.


• English proficiency: Excellent spoken and written English.


• Australian experience: Prior Australian experience is mandatory.


• Agility and mindset: Open-minded, intellectually agile and adaptable.


• Self-starting approach: Hard-working self-starter with initiative and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.


• Self-awareness: Understands personal strengths and impact, and adapts behaviour to different situations and individuals.


• Professional conduct: Professional manner and ability to perform effectively under pressure.


• Ethical behaviour: Acts with fairness, honesty, integrity, and ethical judgement.


• Travel availability: Ability to travel to Australia as required for 2 to 4 weeks.

Desired Skills

• Environmental expertise: Significant experience in a relevant environmental field.


• Large team leadership: Ability to lead teams and support operational management of a team of 50+ staff.


• Professional membership: Membership of a relevant professional institution is preferred.


• Innovation capability: Proven ability to apply innovation and advanced techniques to design and construction solutions.


• Infrastructure delivery: Successful track record in infrastructure development within a professional services environment.


• Lifecycle awareness: Understanding of different project lifecycles and the application of lifecycle approaches to project delivery.

Qualifications

• Educational background: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Environmental Science or a relevant environmental discipline.


• Professional status: Professional or Chartered Engineer status, or relevant equivalent recognition in Australia.


• Experience level: Seasoned professional with at least 15 years of diverse experience delivering environmental services within a consulting engineering environment.