Assistant Environmental Project Manager

Overview

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… We’re excited to be recruiting several Assistant Project Managers to join our growing Environmental Project Management team. In this role, you’ll be a key contributor to a wide range of multi‑disciplinary environmental projects, supporting both the Project Manager and Technical Lead to ensure safe, timely and cost‑effective delivery. You’ll report to an Environmental Project Manager and have the opportunity to work across a diverse portfolio of environmentally focused projects throughout the UK, spanning both the public and private sectors.

Our work is highly varied and includes some of the UK’s most exciting and nationally significant infrastructure programmes such as National Grid’s Great Grid Upgrade, Heathrow Expansion, East–West Rail and Sizewell C alongside a wide range of developments within the built environment. We partner with clients across sectors including highways, rail, aviation, defence, nuclear, residential and property, energy generation and renewables, and transmission and distribution.

From shaping business cases and supporting consent and permit processes (including DCO) to influencing design and construction, you’ll be involved across the full project lifecycle, helping to deliver impactful environmental outcomes on projects that matter.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of project proposals including determining project requirements, scope, resources, programme, and cost estimates (budgets) for project delivery.
• Assist the Project Manager in developing project management documentation including project management plans, cost estimates and forecasts, risk registers, project schedules and stakeholder registers.
• Coordinate the monitoring and update of project schedules and progress against milestones.
• Be responsible for ensuring that health and safety information for site visits, including securing internal approvals, are in place
• Schedule meetings, take minutes and track actions.
• Undertake information management activities via industry used Common Date Environments such as SharePoint and ProjectWise.
• Work with multi-disciplinary environmental project teams consisting of technical and professional staff and suppliers.
• Assist in the administration of supplier contracts.

Your team

We are a strong, dedicated, and high‑performing environmentally focused Project Management team, and we’re continuing to grow to support WSP’s robust pipeline of secured projects. We’re proud of our friendly, supportive, and collaborative culture, one that enables our team members to develop, thrive, and build rewarding careers.

As a centre of excellence within our Environment & Consents discipline, we provide leadership and tailored support across our projects. Our work spans PMO, Project Controls, and Project Manager and Project Director roles, contributing expertise throughout every stage of the project delivery lifecycle. With continued success and increasing demand, we are now seeking Assistant Project Managers who are eager to develop their career in Environmental Consultancy.

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…

• Experience working within a Project or PMO environment, ideally with a background and genuine interest in environment and land based sustainable development.
• Qualification in a relevant discipline (such as environment, project management, engineering or quantity surveying) or a combination of relevant project management experience and qualifications
• Evidence of being a confident communicator, both in person and across digital channels.
• Evidence of collaboration, with a proactive approach to learning new skills and solving problems.
• Proven commercial and contractual awareness, with clear evidence of strong financial acumen and analytical capability.

Join us

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.