Highways Project Manager

Description:

At WSP, there’s nothing we love more than pushing boundaries. Harnessing innovation and sharing insights across our diverse, international team to create a tomorrow’s world that's cleaner, greener and safer. Join us and you’ll be part of an organisation that takes pride in its people and purpose: creating long-lasting solutions to meet the needs of generations to come.

As a Project Manager, you will join our Local Government Highway’s team, based in Northallerton. You will have the opportunity to work on a range of significant projects and you will be pivotal in driving the quality and timeliness of the service we provide.

Whatever project you are involved with, you’ll find yourself challenged in more fascinating and far-reaching ways than ever before, and with the full support of one of the largest engineering consultancies in the world you will have every opportunity to broaden your professional horizons and develop your career as a Project Manager.

WSP provides professional services on multiple long-term framework commissions and significant projects with a team of highly skilled Project Managers and Directors, we form a market leading force of Project Management excellence to support our clients ensuring efficiency with rigorous attention to detail as a core principle. Our business model is designed to give a clear and structured career path for aspiring Project Managers.

About Us

We’re committed to building an inclusive culture that respects the contribution that individuals make to our company. That means we don't just look at your CV. We're just as focused on who you are and the potential that you'll bring to WSP. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we're happy to discuss flexible working. We will do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

Just as our guiding principles include everyone, we believe that diversity and inclusion, includes everyone. Belonging@ WSP is an integral part of our approach to making sure that whatever similarities and differences we have, or whatever your background, we can all bring our whole selves to work and celebrate our differences.

A Typical Week Would Include

You will be required to assist with management of projects and programmes of work. Duties will include:

• Coordinating between various project team members ensuring projects are delivered on time, to budget and to the agreed quality standard.
• Preparing progress reports and attending client project review meetings.
• Engaging with a wide range of project stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery.
• Developing your understanding of the technical/engineering risks and mitigations for your projects.
• Developing project management plans including project scope, baseline programme, fee estimate, roles and responsibilities, risk analysis, technical review requirements and managing progress meetings, and producing weekly/monthly reports.
• Complying with ISO standards, client processes and procedures and WSP’s business management system.