Description
As an Associate at WSP, you will lead and manage the Waste Water Modelling Team, overseeing engineering design work and ensuring compliance with best practices and UK regulations.
You will work closely with the UK business and with the Team Leader – Waste Water Modelling to help with resourcing needs and commercial aspects of projects. You will report to the Team Leader for Asset Consultancy.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage the Waste Water Modelling Team
- Provide technical assurance, win work, manage and control projects and project budgets
- Help with recruitment and work with Principal Engineers on team's skill development and KPIs
- Oversee engineering design work and ensure compliance with best practices and UK regulations
- Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, technical leadership abilities, and commercial acumen
- Manage projects and processes to ensure preparation and checking of documents, reports, and technical outputs
- Lead preparation of design solutions and develop methodologies, technical reports for various design stages for drainage projects
- Identify further technical skills that could be brought into the GCC to deliver additional services or enhancements
- Ensure process and governance such that all projects comply with Health and Safety, CDM, and Quality Assurance Standards
- Undertake the Principal Designer Role in large size schemes
- Win work and align the business to secure major opportunities
- Undertake continuous professional development
- Carry out audits of adherence to WSP Management and Quality processes and implement corrective measures
- Promote the UK GCC culture within the team and ensure staff deliver on promises
- Mentor team members towards professional accreditation
- Assist in recruitment to achieve budgeted and programmed team growth
- Ensure the Business Management System is implemented and maintained
Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Civil and/or Environmental Engineering
- Professional accreditation from ICE or CIWEM or pursuing
- Good understanding of water and wastewater projects, preferably with exposure to standards and specifications in the UK Water Industry
- Chartered Engineer status of a recognised professional institution (e.g., ICE, CIWEM) is preferred
- Experience of one or more areas of UK Water distribution industry projects, urban drainage modelling/waste water modelling, model verification, needs assessment & optioneering
- Experience in appropriate modelling software Infoworks ICM and GIS software
- Good written and verbal communication skills in English