Director - Structural Engineering

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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.

Our portfolio of work is diverse and continues to expand. In the UK WSP specialises in providing consulting, management and design services to a variety of public and private sector clients. The business has successfully completed numerous high profile building projects, both new and refurbished, across a variety of sectors including civic, aviation, rail, commercial, education, health, hotel, industrial, data centres, leisure, residential, retail as well as stadia and arenas.

Our structures teams have been involved in many high-profile UK projects and complex structural engineering challenges such as Buckingham Palace, Claridge’s Hotel, London Bridge Quarter (including The Shard and the re-development of London Bridge Station), Crossrail Bond Street Station and oversite redevelopment, HS2 Stations in London and Birmingham and Alder Hey and Great Ormond Street Hospitals. In The North we continue to deliver major urban regeneration, leisure, residential, commercial, industrial, defence, healthcare, energy, higher education and data centre projects alongside our expertise in refurbishment and heritage projects.

The truly multidisciplinary nature of the organisation means that WSP is able to offer a wealth of experience in all sectors and has cemented their reputation at the forefront of the market. A little more about the role..Structures UK North Our Structures team in the UK Northern Region works from our offices in Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Stockton, Newcastle, Edinburgh & Glasgow with around 110 structural engineers and technicians.  

The Regional team is further split into three Centres, namely Scotland, Northeast & North. North Centre includes our team based in Leeds, Manchester & Sheffield with around 35 structural engineers and technicians. The offices work together as one regional unit and report operationally as one unit. Around the UK each of our Centre teams is led by a discipline team leader (DTL) reporting their respective regional discipline leader.

Structures North Centre is successful because we have maintained a diverse workload in key sectors underpinned by major project delivery in Residential, Commercial, Defence Logistics, Healthcare and Energy sectors.  – We have robust secured workload to support our budgeted team growth in 2026. To support our growth strategy for and beyond 2026, we are recruiting a Director role to be based in our Leeds Office.  

This role will report directly to the North Centre DTL and play a key part in the strategic and operational direction of the regional business.  All responsibilities and accountabilities listed below will be undertaken by the Director in this role, within the framework of the UK P&B strategy and Structures UK leadership.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

Leadership:

Providing highly visible, inspirational leadership, strategic direction and support for the centre Contributing to the national Property & Buildings business - liaising and providing support to other offices and teams. Promoting WSP Vision and Values Leading/support on recruitment, staff development and personal development reviews

Leading and supporting and implementing strategies for resource management

Inspiring the teams through actions and behaviours aligned to the WSP values

Liaising with other parts of WSP and assist in the co-delivery to our clients a range of multi-disciplinary building design, transportation and environmental services

Encouraging open and effective two- way communication and contribution including holding regular team meetings.

Business Development and Marketing:

Build on a culture of Business Development in the centre. Actively secure work through existing contacts and new focused marketing initiatives

Remain a point of contact for key…