Technical Director Engagement

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WSP has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our growing Consultation and Engagement team. We drive best practice in engagement, community relations, consultation and stakeholder management in the delivery of some of the country’s largest infrastructure projects as well as delivering expertise within the water, health, energy and environmental sectors.

With notable contract and framework awards from National Grid as part of the Great Grid Partnership as well as awards from many other clients, we have a great foundation for growth in 2026.

Our key clients include National Grid as part of the Great Grid Partnership, East West Rail Co, Nuclear Waste Services, EET Fuels, Eni UK, Environment Agency, Scottish Power Energy Networks and many more.

Within our Planning and Consents business, your primary focus will be providing the engagement services for the development consent order (DCO) process across a number of large infrastructure projects across the UK. You will do this by:

Advising project teams and clients on stakeholder and community engagement and consultation strategies for multi-disciplinary Nationally Significant Infrastructure projects including:

• Meeting all legislative and regulatory requirements of the planning application process including delivering DCO reporting requirements – and responding to the changes and opportunities presented by the Planning and Infrastructure Act (2025).
• Identifying opportunities to embed global communications and engagement best practice.
• Planning and delivering stakeholder communication and consultations, including managing risks and issues, having oversight of the organisation and management of public information events, and managing outputs to achieve engagement and consultation objectives.

Managing and enabling members of the team to successfully deliver engagement and consultation activities across a range of multidisciplinary DCO projects including:

• Developing and implementing a DCO competency focussed training programme for the team.
• Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver projects.
• Line management of engagement specialists.

Taking project management and commercial responsibility for significant infrastructure projects within the team including:

• Managing tender production and business development opportunities
• Project management of schemes including resourcing, budget management and ensuring delivery to programme.
• Responsible for delivery of projects including resources, budgets and risk, in order to ensure projects are delivered on time and to budget.

YOUR TEAM

You will be joining a UK-wide team of 65+ communication and engagement specialists who are passionate about what we do. Reporting to the Head of Consultation and Engagement, you will lead a regional team of communication and engagement experts. You will be a leader within the business responsible for managing existing projects and client relationships and build new partnerships.

We offer flexible working with a number of team days in person mixed with working from home days.

WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE

Preferred qualifications / education:

• Demonstrated experience in leading the consultation and engagement process across large multidisciplinary infrastructure projects.
• At least degree-qualified, or with relevant work experience in a related field.
• Membership of relevant professional or trade body is desirable.
• Experience in the road, rail, utilities, water, environment or energy…