Associate Associate Director Technical Director, EIA

About This Role

This is a strategically significant opportunity for an experienced professional to join the nationwide Environmental Consents team. The role involves identifying, winning, and delivering multi-disciplinary inputs to a range of energy projects for a wide client base, contributing to the UK's most important and transformational infrastructure projects aimed at meeting Net Zero commitments. It suits an enthusiastic individual with a creative spirit and a dedicated approach, looking to influence, lead, and deliver environmental elements of engineering projects.

Responsibilities

• Work with a range of technical environmental specialists and design teams across multiple sectors to direct and lead environmental teams and inputs to project designs and assessments
• Be instrumental in improving the environmental performance for a diverse range of projects across multiple sectors
• Direct and lead projects including tasks relating to recruitment, bidding, project team management, project delivery, and financial management
• Play a key role in the expansion and diversification of the offer in the water sector, working alongside sector leads and client account managers to provide thought leadership and win new business
• Provide environmental advice and support to clients, project managers and colleagues
• Work with colleagues, diverse environmental specialists, clients and engineering teams to promote sustainable design and environmental enhancement
• Lead large, multiple, and complex projects, overseeing performance on technical, quality, commercial, and health and safety
• Build relationships with clients and identify opportunities to provide support in areas such as resourcing, programming, strategy development and project delivery
• Proactively seek to develop new client relationships and actively seek new business

About the Company

WSP is one of the largest environmental consultancies in the UK, involved in challenging and high-profile projects ranging from small developments across every sector to major national infrastructure schemes. Its Environmental Management and Assessment Team oversees and manages environmental inputs to these schemes throughout their lifecycle.