Responsibilities
RESPONSIBILITIES
Project management, technical leadership and timely delivery of technical outputs from inception to completion with a range of internal ME colleagues including:
- Act as the face of the India-based Roads & Highways team
- Local health and safety, welfare, risk, information security, and assessment/compliance
- Project, programme and financial management
- Promote WSP Vision and Values
- Actively promote the ME GCC culture within the team and ensure that the staff deliver on promises
- Interfacing with multi-disciplinary project teams
- Manage the team and processes to ensure the preparation and checking of documents, reports and other technical outputs/deliverables from a variety of Highways-related disciplines meet internal and client requirements and quality assurance standards.
- Provide highly visible, inspirational leadership and direction for the GCC ME Roads & Highways team, ensuring that it is aligned with the wider ME business
- Mentoring team members towards professional accreditation or equivalent
- Carry out and report on staff appraisals and performance development reviews
- Recruitment to achieve budgeted and programmed team growth
- Monitor and review team capability in the use of the required standards, processes, software tools, and, with technical colleagues, identify training required
- Identify opportunities to upskill existing technical resources or recruit new capabilities to deliver additional services or enhance existing ones
- Identify further skills that could be brought into the GCC, India to deliver additional services or enhancements to various businesses
- Ensuring that the Business Management System is implemented and maintained
- Seek regular feedback on team performances, ensure criticisms are positively converted into opportunities for improvement
- Develop/maintain excellent relationships, ensuring repeat business and client satisfaction, internally and externally
- Contribution to bids and marketing material
- Contribute to the design of operational processes, systems, quality measurement processes, and achievement of KPIs
- Ensure process and governance such that all projects comply with Health and Safety, and Quality Assurance Standards.
- Carry out audits of adherence to WSP Management and Quality processes and implement corrective measures where required
Client / External focus
- Maintain strong colleague relationships and contribute to the teams performance in client satisfaction
- Contribute to knowledge sharing in internal and external forums, including technical input to your team
- Remain up to date with market and competitor knowledge across the T&I
People
- Inclusively lead people, clearly articulating the vision, defining responsibilities, delegating effectively and providing constructive feedback
- Inspire and motivate departmental staff towards technical progression
- Be self-motivated to take on a leadership role in project work with a clear focus on timeliness, quality and technical excellence.
- Managing people through change and develop succession plans
- Create and support innovation
- Deal with conflict appropriately
- Work across cultures (e.g. international and/or multi-disciplinary projects), embracing diverse points of view
Business Focus
- Proactively influences Health, and Wellbeing including for example Safety by Design
- Deliver successful commercial performance by clearly understanding and monitoring the area of work and ensuring agreed targets are met
- Be responsible for the quality of technical outputs to WSP standards, including any specific ME client standards
- Identify appropriately qualified staff to deliver projects with regard to the constraints of project budgets
- Champion and mentor others in use of agreed systems and processes
- Explore ways to add value and improve personal and team performance
- Manage opportunities, risks and project changes/variations so that these deliver advantage to the business
- Ensure budget utilisation is met or exceeded
- Ensure budgeted earning capacity is met or exceeded
Key Competencies / Skills
Mandatory skills
- You should be able to demonstrate a proven working knowledge of the Design Standards practiced across the ME and experience of at least 5 years in ME highway design (onshore or offshore)
- Track record of senior technical experience in at least one Highways discipline.
- Excellent communication, internal client handling, interpersonal skills and listening skills with the ability to influence and interact with people
- Comfortable leading internal engineering discussions and the experience and ability to understand, evaluate and explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical professionals
- Technical manager with management acumen and strong leadership skills
- Open-minded and intellectually agile
- A hard-working self-starter with initiative and ability to work within a team environment
- Understand own strengths and impact, adapting behaviour according to different situations and individuals
- Able to work effectively under pressure
- Act ethically with fairness, honesty, and integrity
- Capacity to visit the ME every 2 to 3 months for up to 2 weeks
- Successful track record of delivery of large detail design projects in the Highways sector within the context of a professional services provider
- The candidate should be able to lead teams and help with the operational management of a team of 35+ staff
- The candidate should have demonstrable experience in resource and project management
- The candidate should be aware of current and emerging technologies relevant to the highways sector
- Experience of liaison with clients, co-professionals, and design teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Effective time management and strong organisational skills
Qualifications
QUALIFICATIONS
- Educated to Bachelor&aposs / Masters degree level in a highways-related discipline such as Civil Engineering.
- Chartered Engineer status of a recognised professional institution. (e.g. ICE, CIHT)
- Seasoned professional with at least with 20 years experience in design, project management, project delivery or in leadership in a consulting engineering environment
About Us
WSP is one of the world&aposs leading professional services consulting firms. We are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower. We are technical experts and strategic advisors including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors and environmental specialists, as well as other design, program and construction management professionals. We design lasting solutions in the Transportation & Infrastructure, Property & Buildings, Earth & Environment, Power & Energy, Resources and Industry sectors, as well as offering strategic advisory services. Our talented people around the globe engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.With approximately
4,000 talented people
across 3 locations (Noida, Bengaluru & Mumbai offices) in India and more than
73,000 globally
, in 550
offices across 40 countries
, we engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.At WSP we draw on the diverse skills and capabilities of our employees globally to compete for the most exciting and complex projects across the world and bring the same level of expertise to our local communities. We are proud to be an international collective of innovative thinkers who work on the most complex problems. Uni?ed under one strong brand, we use our local expertise, international reach and global scale to prepare our cities and environments for the future, connect communities and help societies thrive in built and natural ecosystems. True to our guiding principles, our business is built on four cornerstones:
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