Senior Environmental Project Manager

Job Description

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.

• Provide strategic direction and oversee the successful delivery of environmental projects from inception to completion, ensuring alignment with sustainability and climate resilience objectives.
• Motivate and empower multi-disciplinary teams, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration and high performance.
• Engage proactively with senior clients and stakeholders, co‑creating solutions and cultivating long‑term trusted partnerships.
• Manage contract delivery effectively, utilising project controls and contract management systems to oversee change, programme milestones, commercial outcomes and risk mitigation strategies.
• Develop and implement robust risk and change management approaches to ensure project resilience and achievement of business goals.
• Promote innovation and best practices, integrating sustainability, safety and digital tools into all aspects of project delivery.
• Support business growth by contributing to high‑quality bids and proposals that secure future opportunities and expand our impact.

• Leadership in delivering standalone environmental projects and managing key environmental work streams within large, multidisciplinary programmes by collaborating with engineering, planning and regulatory stakeholders, and ensuring accountability for environmental outcomes.
• Track record of successfully delivering complex environmental components as part of major infrastructure projects.
• Practical experience with NEC4 PSC contracts (particularly Options A and
  
  E).
• Proven ability to build effective relationships and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams and with senior stakeholders.
• Understanding of environmental consenting and the associated planning regime.
• Possession of or working towards project management qualifications, notably APM PMQ (support towards chartership available).
• Robust project management skills, including:
  • Programme (critical path, dependencies and milestones)
  • Commercial acumen, including financial oversight and budget management
  • Change management
  • Health, safety and quality management and leadership

Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.