Director - Discipline Team Leader - Building Structures

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

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 Scotland we continue to deliver major healthcare, 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.

Our Structures team in the UK Northern Region works from our offices in Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield, Stockton, Newcastle, Edinburgh & Glasgow with 100 + 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 into 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 2027.

As a result of senior staff role changes and succession-planning we need to fill the role of Director Structures North (DTL). The DTL will report to the Head of North but will be fully responsible and accountable for the Structures North team from the beginning of their appointment. All responsibilities and accountabilities listed below will be undertaken by the DTL, within the framework of the UK P&B strategy and Structures UK 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. Attend Structures DTL meetings as required.
• 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…