Senior Consultant - Project Management
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Qualifications
- Degree qualified or equivalent professional experience.
- PMP, APM PMQ, or equivalent project management qualification preferred.
- Chartered status or working towards chartership desirable.
- Essential
- Experience managing complex infrastructure, engineering, digital, or multidisciplinary projects.
- Strong project controls, risk management, governance, and commercial management experience.
- Proven stakeholder and client management skills.
- Ability to lead geographically distributed and multidisciplinary teams.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
- Desirable
- Experience in transportation, highways, rail, utilities, or Intelligent Infrastructure environments.
- Familiarity with NEC contracts and project controls.
- Experience in digital delivery, systems integration, or technology-enabled infrastructure projects.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of Intelligent Infrastructure projects, ensuring agreed scope, programme, cost, quality, and performance objectives are achieved.
- Develop and maintain project plans, budgets, resource forecasts, risk registers, and delivery controls.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and change.
- Build and maintain strong client and stakeholder relationships, acting as a key point of contact for project delivery matters.
- Manage project finances, including forecasting, resource planning, fee management, change control, and contractual compliance.
- Ensure compliance with internal processes, governance requirements, quality standards, and client obligations.
- Maintain effective project reporting, documentation, risk management, and assurance activities.
- Provide leadership, mentoring, and support to project teams, promoting collaboration and high performance.
- Support business growth through client engagement, bid support, work-winning activities, and identification of new opportunities.
- Contribute to continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and the development of project management best practices across the business.
- Key Accountabilities
- Successful delivery of projects to agreed scope, schedule, cost, and quality targets.
- High levels of client satisfaction and stakeholder engagement.
- Effective commercial management and financial performance.
- Robust management of project risks, issues, and change.
- Development of team capability and contribution to business growth.
Skills & Experience
- Essential
- Experience managing complex infrastructure, engineering, digital, or multidisciplinary projects.
- Strong project controls, risk management, governance, and commercial management experience.
- Proven stakeholder and client management skills.
- Ability to lead geographically distributed and multidisciplinary teams.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
- Desirable
- Experience in transportation, highways, rail, utilities, or Intelligent Infrastructure environments.
- Familiarity with NEC contracts and project controls.
- Experience in digital delivery, systems integration, or technology-enabled infrastructure projects.
Preferred Qualifications
- PMP, APM PMQ, or equivalent project management qualification preferred.
About WSP
WSP is a global professional services firm headquartered in Montréal, providing engineering, advisory, and science-based expertise. It serves clients across transportation and infrastructure, property and buildings, earth and environment, energy, water, and other sectors.
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