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WSP USA Project Manager (Client Engineering & Advisory Services) in Birmingham, United Kingdom
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A bit about us:
At WSP, there’s nothing we love more than pushing boundaries. Harnessing innovation and sharing insights across our diverse, international team to create a tomorrow’s world that's cleaner, greener and safer. Join us and you’ll be part of an organisation that takes pride in its people and purpose: creating long-lasting solutions to meet the needs of generations to come.
Our work is serious, and serious fun. We create homes for penguins, help you get from A to B faster and safer, create inspiring places to live and work, and shape the skylines of our cities.
We value our people and our reputation. Having a diverse and robust workforce enables us to look for answers, not problems, and we pride ourselves on offering clients clever, imaginative, future-facing solutions. If you are interested in finding ways to help society thrive, at home and further afield, an exciting career could be waiting for you here.
Our Rail business designs and delivers solutions for railway infrastructure throughout the world with teams based in offices across the UK, India and Serbia. We work from early development through the entire project lifecycle and our capability encompasses single discipline renewals, nationally significant infrastructure projects and everything in between.
A bit about the role:
Our Rail Client Advisory and Engineering Services group within the Rail business is seeking a proactive client focused Project Manager to join our growing Client Engineering service. This role will be responsible for the internal commercial management of our Client Engineering projects, along with an external client focus in managing commercial and contract arrangements with our clients. In this role you will be required to understand, navigate, and support our clients in accessing the various routes to market.
In this role you will be responsible for managing the relationship with our offshore PMO organisation to facilitate the commercial management of our projects. You will support the management and hiring of contractors to fulfil our client engineering roles. You may also be required to support the recruitment of permanent resources into the growing Client Engineering service.
You will work alongside our Client Engineering Project Directors to develop relationships within our client organisations to help grow our service. In doing this you maybe required to support in tendering for opportunities.
Our Rail Client Engineering Services team helps our clients assure the railway is safe and reliable, whilst deploying resources into client engineering organisation to help solve the most complex rail transportation problems. In doing so we proactively work with our clients to continuously improve and deliver critical client engineering roles in a cost-effective way. To do so you will be expected to challenge the norm and have a drive to develop and instil the right proactive behaviours across all project resources.
A typical week would include:
As a Client Engineering Project Manager, you’ll be used to facing a wide range of technical, commercial, people and other challenges across business and project activities. The role has a series of core responsibilities which are broadly as follows:
Managing commercial and contractual relationship with our clients, engaging with them to ensure project performance.
Managing and controlling project change and contractual variations
Raising and managing opportunities and support the work winning process.
Manging the internal commercial performance of one or more projects depending on scale, proactively engaging, and managing our PMO support
Supporting in responding to client requests, tender enquiries, and mini competitions
Supporting Group Director and Client Engineering Project Directors to develop and grow the Client Engineering service.
Managing contingent workers
In addition, you will be passionate about people development, and support the development of advisors, engineers and leaders coming through the business.
You’ll be passionate, engaging, energetic and articulate when bringing diverse, multi-disciplinary teams together to address the range of challenges our clients face. You’ll also understand the importance of implementing robust systems and processes to ensure that our bid and projects deliver value for money in achieving client goals and requirements as well as and cost and programme targets.
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
A proven track record in project and commercial management
A professionally qualified engineering or project management background
A natural drive to exceed client expectations.
An ability to be proactive and build strong working relationships.
A desire to constantly improve, motivate and encourage others.
A forward-thinking mindset, capable of visualising and planning for the longer term.
Experience in people management and development.
A natural eye for detail, with a drive to ensure quality in everything we do.
A professionally qualified engineering or PM background
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We are WSP - Join us and make your career future ready!
In today’s world it’s important to work for a company that has clear purpose, giving back to communities and supporting what is truly important in the world.
When considering a career move its vital to work for a business that is aligned to your values and goals, a place where you can belong.
To find out more about our business click on the following link and discover what awaits you at WSP: Who We Are | WSP (https://www.wsp.com/en-gb/who-we-are)
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU
Work-life balance?
WSP recognises that work is only one part of your life and making time for other things is important – whether that’s for your families, friends, or yourself.
Our hybrid working policy allows the flexibility to work from the comfort of your own home as well as collaborating in our contemporary offices across the UK.
Inclusivity & Diversity?
We want our people to achieve rewarding careers, bringing their whole selves to work. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing diversity to create a culture of inclusion and belonging at WSP.
Our employee resource groups VIBE (LGBTQ+ employees), CREED (Championing Racial Equality and Ethnic Diversity) and our Gender Balance Group, in tandem with WSP’s Neurodiverse Community Group, WSP Connect Group (visible and non-visible disabilities) help us promote the right environment for you to reach your full potential.
Health & Wellbeing?
We are committed to supporting our people, giving you the tools to make improvements to your health and wellbeing through our Thrive programme.
Med24 gives you and your family unrestricted telephone access to an NHS doctor where you can call day or night or have a face-to-face video consultation.
Flex your time?
For improved work life balance, WSP offers the “WSP Hour” which enables you to take one hour per day to do as you wish and make up the time earlier or later that day. We also offer part time and flexible working arrangements plus the option to flex your bank holiday entitlement to suit you.
Your development?
We appreciate that development and training is important to you and that’s why we have a supportive environment that invests in your development, whether that’s chartership, training or mentoring.
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Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.
Please note WSP reserves the right to close the vacancy before the advertised closing date.