# Project Manager (Environment)

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Manchester, Greater Manchester
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking a Project Manager (Environment) to join our team in Manchester. As a Project Manager, you will play an important part in delivering multi-disciplinary environmental projects, working closely with Senior Project Managers and Technical Leads to keep projects safe, on track and within budget.

Responsibilities:

- Support the development of project proposals, helping to define requirements, scope, resourcing, programme and budget for successful delivery.

- Create and maintain clear, well-structured project documentation such as project plans, cost forecasts, risk registers and schedules taking ownership on smaller projects and supporting Senior Project Managers on larger, more complex work.

- Keep projects on track by actively monitoring progress and helping to drive delivery against agreed timelines.

- Manage project costs day-to-day, including tracking time, budgets, forecasts and spend, ensuring everything stays aligned with progress.

- Ensure health and safety requirements are in place for site visits, including securing the necessary internal approvals.

- Support contract management and administration activities to keep projects running smoothly and compliantly.

- Proactively manage change and risk, working closely with technical teams to ensure projects stay aligned with scope, contractual requirements and governance standards.

- Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams, helping to coordinate and develop colleagues, partners and suppliers.

- Champion environmental outcomes, supporting the delivery of sustainability, future-ready and net zero ambitions across projects.

Requirements:

- Experience working as an Assistant Project Manager or Project Manager within a project or PMO environment within environmental or sustainability sectors.

- A good understanding of programme management principles, including work breakdown structures, dependencies and critical path, with the ability to interpret outputs from tools such as MS Project, Primavera P6 or similar.

- Commercial awareness with the ability to manage budgets, track performance and support effective change control, with experience delivering projects within budget. Familiarity with Professional Services Contracts (e.g. NEC3/4) would be advantageous.

- A confident communicator, both written and verbal, able to share key information clearly and keep project teams and stakeholders well informed.

- Working towards or holding membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. PMI, APM, MIEnvSc, MIEMA, MRICS), with chartership or progression towards it welcomed.

- An interest in the environment and/or sustainable land development, alongside a positive, proactive approach and a genuine desire to grow your career.

## Skills

### Required
- project management
- environmental management
- budgeting
- risk management
- communication

### Nice to have
- MS Project
- Primavera P6
- NEC3/4
- PMI
- APM

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