Overview In this senior role, you lead environmental programmes within major infrastructure and development projects. You will guide multidisciplinary teams, shape delivery strategies, and strengthen client relationships as part of WSP’s Environmental Project Management team. You’ll influence governance, risk, and assurance to ensure high-quality outcomes that align with project briefs. This is an opportunity to mentor peers, expand your leadership footprint, and contribute to impactful, community-oriented projects at scale.
Pay / Benefits - work-life balance
- hybrid working policy
- inclusive culture
- Thrive wellbeing programme
- Virtual GP service
- gymflex scheme and menopause support
Responsibilities - Provide leadership across major infrastructure and environmental programmes, setting direction and delivering high-quality outcomes
- Lead multidisciplinary team integration with robust project management, clear accountability, and effective delivery governance
- Oversee assurance, governance and compliance to ensure projects are well controlled and on brief
- Influence client, project and stakeholder decision-making, driving engagement and shaping strategy
- Strengthen client relationships to grow future opportunities and position WSP as a trusted delivery partner
- Mentor future leaders within the EPM team and raise delivery standards
Key requirements - Proven experience leading environmental projects or workstreams within complex infrastructure or multidisciplinary programmes
- Strong background in environmental areas such as EIA or contaminated land
- Track record of leading multidisciplinary teams and integrating environmental inputs
- Solid project leadership across governance, planning, risk, programme and delivery management
- Confident, collaborative leader with client engagement and stakeholder management experience
- Chartered, or working towards chartership, with a relevant professional institution
- confident and collaborative leadership
- stakeholder management
- mentoring and people development
- environmental project leadership
- EIA
- contaminated land
