Senior/Associate Project Manager
WSP in Africa · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom ·
- Seniority
- Senior
- Category
- Project management
- Company size
- 1000+
Oversee large infrastructure projects, aligning delivery with client goals and ensuring high standards across teams. Lead stakeholder engagement and strategic planning for transport and civil structures.
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A little more about your role…
As an Senior or Associate Project Manager in the Structures team, you will oversee complex projects or programmes of significant scale, providing strategic leadership, aligning delivery with organisational and client objectives, and ensuring high standards of performance across projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Direct delivery of complex projects and programmes, setting short- and medium-term strategic direction.
- Align technical and delivery strategies across teams, ensuring consistent, high-quality outcomes.
- Provide governance oversight, shaping risk, schedule, cost, and quality frameworks.
- Lead strategic stakeholder engagement, negotiating terms, and managing high-level communications.
- Drive innovation, sustainability, and efficiency initiatives across projects.
- Mentor senior project managers, supporting talent development and succession planning.
Your team…
You will be part of our wider Civils team, made up of over 800 professionals across the UK and sit within our Transport & Infrastructure business unit. Your future development will be actively supported with access to WSP’s full range of training, development tools and resources and be part of transforming UK infrastructure.
You will integrate into our team’s flexible working culture, offering a balance of home and office working, where safety and wellbeing are paramount.
What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…
Qualifications & Experience
- ChPP or equivalent chartered status; MSP or MoP qualifications desirable.
- Proven track record overseeing large, complex infrastructure or structural engineering projects.
- Strong ability to align project strategies with organisational and market objectives.
- Experience mentoring and developing project managers, fostering high-performing teams.
- Advanced skills in risk management, stakeholder engagement, and strategic planning.
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