Environmental Manager

Job Description

Our Earth & Environment team, require a team player with the leadership, technical and commercial skills, knowledge and experience to take overall responsibility of the discipline including oversight of capture and delivery of projects, ensuring technical quality and adherence to budget and programme, to manage and mentor staff.

The Environmental Manager will be responsible for the following:

• Health & Safety – Oversight of Health & Safety and wellbeing of staff within your discipline.
• Business development – You will be responsible for supporting the other sector leads and pushing forward business development within your discipline. Your role will include liaison with new and potential clients; both internal and external to WSP.
• Commercial – Tracking and reviewing the commercial performance for your discipline to ensure that KPI’s are met. Reporting up to the Environment Advisory and the P&L Director in detail.
• Operations – You will be responsible for ensuring that your discipline works in conjunction with other disciplines supporting a ‘One National Team’ approach. This includes:
• Oversight of weekly resourcing.
• Supporting the integration of teams with other disciplines
• Weekly communications including acting as the main point of flow of communications from higher management.
• Ensuring that company messaging has been received by the team.(as required)
• Technical support on projects within your area of expertise. This includes authorisations of deliverables.
• People Management – Regular team meetings with all members of your discipline, mentoring and supporting team members to help progress their careers.

• BSc and MSc degree level qualified in a relevant environmental or engineering discipline.
• Membership of a relevant professional body (i.e. IEMA or equivalent) and preferably chartered status.
• Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in managing large complex environmental projects across a number of disciplines.
• Experience of working in an international consultancy.
• Experience in undertaking air dispersion or noise modeling could be advantageous.
• Ability to work across multiple disciplines and a flexible mindset to working.
• Experience in providing technical alternatives and solutions to technical clarifications and design solutions to clients.
• Significant proofing, editing, and report collation experience.
• Excellent written English and verbal communication, presentation and organizational skills.
• Experience in working on multiple projects, simultaneously.
• Robust project management, time management and financial management skills.
• Collaborative mindset and outcome-driven working method.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.