Roads Design Manager | Lead Multi-Disciplinary Projects

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. 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.

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. 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…

As a Design Manager in the SDF (Service Delivery Framework) Roads team you’ll be working alongside a host of talented people ranging from our early career professionals to established engineers and project managers working across the Roads business to improve the local and strategic networks, based in our London & South East region (located in either of our:
Cambridge, London (Westferry Circus), Basingstoke, Guildford or Southampton offices).

What is SDF? The National Highways Scheme Delivery Framework(SDF) isa multi-billion-pound procurement strategy used to maintain, renew, and improve England’s Strategic Road Network (SRN). It enables regional, collaborative, and performance-based contracts for works such as pavement, civil engineering, and technology to enhance safety and efficiency.

Being part of this framework team, you will lead the technical delivery of moderately complex projects, accountable for the quality management of the deliverables on the projects and compliance with WSP’s procedures and client requirements. The role will require an excellent to expert knowledge and understanding of multi-disciplinary project delivery as well as management of technical design teams

The role will offer an interesting and varied workload –

You Will

• Taking ownership for the successful delivery of multi-disciplinary engineering projects on the framework.
• Managing and coordinating design teams and effectively communicating with all parties.
• Identifying and managing design risks.
• Planning and monitoring the performance of projects throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ensuring all deliverables and milestones are achieved to cost/quality/time targets.
• Providing a Check/Review role for technical work to meet WSPs quality management requirements.
• Acting as a role model, line manager and mentor for other staff within the Roads team.
• Championing excellent health and safety practice, including safety in design, site visit safety and compliance with CDM regulations.
• Responding to client directions in a professional and customer focused manner and to develop and maintain relationships with clients, peers and others who are influential in providing future business.

• A University degree relevant to civil engineering, construction, design or related discipline
• Chartered or Incorporated Status (MICE, MCIHT or equivalent) or equivalent demonstrable experience is preferable but not essential.
• Experience of large, technically complex multi-disciplinary airfield civil engineering projects.
• Understanding of both the needs of the client and the business when delivering a major project with a focus on achieving margin and contract compliance.
• Knowledge and understanding of construction contracts (i.e. NEC) and processes is preferable but not essential.
• Excellent communication skills
• Enjoy working in a team environment, sharing ideas and collaborating with colleague sand be able to demonstrate a time when you’ve managed to do this successfully to solve complex problems.