Senior Environmental Project Manager

Job 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. Embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. Experience a world of opportunity and shape a career as unique as you.

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A Little More About Your Role

As part of the Environmental Project Management leadership group, you will be a visible environmental leader for WSP, reporting to the Environmental Project Management Team Leader. Your work will focus on project delivery in a senior leadership capacity, often as Project Manager or Project Director. You will lead multi-discipline projects within our Environment business, sometimes as part of wider project teams with other units.

The projects we deliver are varied and include some of the UK’s most significant infrastructure schemes, such as National Grid’s Great Grid Upgrade, East-West Rail, and Sizewell C, along with developments in the built environment. Our clients include public and private sector entities across sectors like highways, rail, aviation, defense, nuclear, residential, energy generation, renewables, and transmission.

Role Summary

• Lead environmental aspects on large, complex projects, ensuring project management fundamentals are met, including programme, commercial, and quality management, with a focus on health, safety, inclusion, and diversity.
• Build and manage high-performing project teams, inspiring delivery of exemplary work.
• Ensure environmental principles are integrated into projects, including compliance, impact mitigation, stakeholder engagement, and sustainability, with knowledge of environmental disciplines and services.
• Promote environmental betterment and future-ready, net-zero strategies within project teams.
• Manage project change and risks, ensuring adherence to governance and contractual scope.
• Provide strategic direction for technical improvements and documentation, including project management plans, risk registers, and schedules.
• Draft commercial proposals, defining project scope, resources, and budgets to support competitive bids.
• Contribute to business development through client meetings, relationship building, and sector insights.

Our Team

• We are a dedicated, successful environmental project management team, proud of our collaborative culture that fosters skill development and growth.
• As a center of excellence within Earth & Environment, we provide leadership and support across all project stages, including PMO, project controls, and leadership roles.

What We Are Looking For

• Proven experience leading environmental projects, achieving key metrics related to schedule, budget, quality, safety, and environmental benefits.
• Strong understanding of future-ready and net-zero strategies, with a passion for environmental improvement.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying key points to teams and stakeholders.
• Experience in business development, including tendering and client relationship management.
• Strong commercial awareness, with experience in contracts like NEC3/4, and financial management skills.
• Knowledge of programme management tools and techniques, with ability to interpret project schedules.
• Membership in professional bodies (e.g., PMI, APM, MIEnvSc, MIEMA, MRICS) and working towards or holding chartership.

Join Us

Be part of a community of talented individuals committed to making a positive impact. Our global team of over 69,000 employees works to improve communities worldwide.

Apply today to start your journey with WSP.

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