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Act as the technical lead for the UK Communities Roads team projects

• Local health and safety, welfare, risk, information security, and assessment/compliance

• Project, programme and financial management

• Promote WSP Vision and Values

• Actively promote the UK GCC culture within the team and ensure that the staff deliver on promises

• Interfacing with multi-disciplinary project teams

• Manage the team and processes to ensure the preparation and checking of documents, reports and other technical outputs/deliverables from a variety of Highways-related disciplines meet internal and client requirements and quality assurance standards.

• Provide highly visible, inspirational leadership and direction for the GCC UK Communities team, ensuring that it is aligned with the wider UK business

• Mentoring team members towards professional accreditation or equivalent

• Carry out and report on staff appraisals and performance development reviews

• Recruitment to achieve the budgeted and programmed team growth

• Monitor and review team capability in the use of the required standards, processes, software tools, and, with technical colleagues, identify training required

• Identify opportunities to upskill existing technical resources or recruit new capabilities to deliver additional services or enhance existing ones

• Identify further skills that could be brought into the GCC, India, to deliver additional services or enhancements to various businesses

• Ensuring that the Business Management System is implemented and maintained

• Seek regular feedback on team performances, ensure criticisms are positively converted into opportunities for improvement

• Develop/maintain excellent relationships, ensuring repeat business and client satisfaction, internally and externally

• Contribution to bids and marketing material

• Contribute to the design of operational processes, systems, quality measurement processes, and achievement of KPIs

• Ensure process and governance such that all projects comply with Health and Safety, and Quality Assurance Standards.

• Carry out audits of adherence to WSP Management and Quality processes and implement corrective measures where required

Client / External focus

• Maintain strong colleague relationships and contribute to the team’s performance in client satisfaction

• Contribute to knowledge sharing in internal and external forums, including technical input to your team

• Remain up to date with market and competitor knowledge across the Transportation & Infrastructure

People

• Inclusively lead people, clearly articulating the vision, defining responsibilities, delegating effectively and providing constructive feedback

• Inspire and motivate departmental staff towards technical progression

• Be self-motivated to take on a leadership role in project work with a clear focus on timeliness, quality and technical excellence.

• Managing people through change and develop succession plans

• Create and support innovation

• Deal with conflict appropriately

• Work across cultures (e.g. international and/or multi-disciplinary projects), embracing diverse points of view

Business Focus

• Proactively influences Health, and Wellbeing including for example Safety by Design

• Deliver successful commercial performance by clearly understanding and monitoring the area of work and ensuring agreed targets are met

• Be responsible for the quality of technical outputs to WSP standards, including any specific UK client standards

• Identify appropriately qualified staff to deliver projects with regard to the constraints of project budgets

• Champion and mentor others in use of agreed systems and processes

• Explore ways to add value and improve personal and team performance

• Manage opportunities, risks and project changes/variations so that these deliver advantage to the business

• Ensure budget utilisation is met or exceeded

• Ensure budgeted earning capacity is met or exceeded

Mandatory skills

• You should be able to demonstrate a proven working knowledge of the Design Standards practiced across the UK and experience

• Track record of senior technical experience in Highways discipline.

• Excellent communication, internal client handling, interpersonal skills and listening skills with the ability to influence and interact with people

• Comfortable leading internal engineering discussions and the experience and ability to understand, evaluate and explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical professionals

• Technical manager with management acumen and strong leadership skills

• Open-minded and intellectually agile

• A hard-working self-starter with initiative and ability to work within a team environment

• Understand own strengths and impact, adapting behaviour according to different situations and individuals

• Able to work effectively under pressure

• Act ethically with fairness, honesty, and integrity

• Successful track record of delivery of large detail design projects in the Highways sector within the context of a professional services provider

• The candidate should have demonstrable experience in resource and project management

• The candidate should be aware of current and emerging technologies relevant to the highways sector

• Experience of liaison with clients, co-professionals, and design teams

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Effective time management and strong organisational skills

BGV:

• Employment with WSP India is subject to the successful completion of a background verification (“BGV”) check conducted by a third-party agency appointed by WSP India.

• Candidates are advised to ensure that all information provided during the recruitment process — including documents uploaded — is accurate and complete, both to WSP India and its BGV partner”.