What if you could do the kind of work the world needs?

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

A little more about your role…

As a Design Manager at WSP in the PMCM Rail team you will be responsible for the delivery of complex rail projects of regional, national, and international significance. A Design Manger will lead on the integration of multi-disciplinary design teams, ensuring project delivery of high-quality, timely, and budget-compliant outcomes.

At WSP, our Design Managers are individuals who are adaptable in various situations and possess an innovative mindset, willing to take on new challenges and are comfortable in working within significant and complex projects or programmes of work. We collaborate closely with external Clients and with internal multi-disciplinary project teams and, to deliver most effectively, we utilise WSP offices, Client offices and/or site locations to deliver programmes of strategic regional and national importance.

Our culture encourages and supports a successful work-life balance and we encourage all our people to embrace this approach. You will be based in our Manchester office, but you will also have access to many of our other modern, vibrant offices in great city centre locations across the UK. WSP actively supports flexible working with the expectation for you to be in an office environment a minimum of three days a week to support and integrate with your colleagues and Clients.

With WSP you have the exceptional opportunity to take the next step in your career, build on your experience and qualifications and achieve your ambitions. We offer excellent support in personal development and growth as part of our local teams and across the wider WSP business.

Your Team

Based in our Manchester office, we are a diverse, inclusive and enthusiastic team of Project, Commercial and Design Managers working in the Rail sector, focussed on the common goal of delivering solutions for our clients. Our passion comes from creating and shaping the built environment through tailored project delivery as we strive to be the best in our field. If you are looking for a challenge and professional development within our talented team, then we would love to hear from you.

Your Role

• Working on large scale projects with significant responsibility.

• Planning and keeping track of documentation by putting in place appropriate management and assurance controls for design certainty. Being able to manage your time and the wider teams time effectively and efficiently.

• Ensuring clear communication through collaborating effectively with both internal WSP teams and external stakeholders to support the delivery of projects.

• Facilitating and leading any discussions in Design Team Meetings (DTMs), taking clear and concise minutes and ensuring timely completion of actions by the design team.

• Ensuring project management processes are consistently improved and implemented, e.g. change control. Coordinating relevant disciplines through target led workshops, enabling critical design issues to be resolved in a timely manner.

• Dealing with RFIs, early warnings, and general communications to reduce project risk and ensure a successful project delivery.

• Analysing, processing, and responding to design transmittals consisting of drawings, specifications, reports, and other project related documents.

• Reviewing and evaluating quotations to ensure they align with the project’s scope, budget and client requirements.

• Managing changes and delays that have affected the project and ensuring these are resolved or mitigated accordingly.

• Keeping track of meeting discussions. Through making notes, ensuring accurate documentation of discussions, decision and actions for future reference.

• Updating the design delivery programme, resource, and instructions. Have a thorough understanding of project scope and design responsibility.

• Itemising scope of services, client briefing schedules, documentation and regular assessment against industry standards to help ensure a better set of deliverables.

• Instigate efficiency, appropriate use of innovation, buildability whilst factoring the different design stages with the wider design team.

• Understanding of the design process, roles and responsibilities and be able to coordinate across all disciplines internal and external, ensuring quality and add overall value to the project.

• Multiple package delivery responsibility and team management, reporting to Senior Project Leads.

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree in relevant engineering, design, or management discipline (such as project or construction management, engineering, science, building or quantity surveying).

• Chartered (or approaching) Membership of a relevant professional body.

• ARB / RIBA / MICE / MIET / APM / PMI / PRINCE2 / Six Sigma certifications would be advantageous.

• Contract management experience and/or accreditations would be an advantage.

• Experience of working in major projects with proven Client-side project delivery (design or construction)

• Experience with major UK clients in a design consultancy environment.

• A background of working with organisations such as Network Rail, HS2, TfGM, and other rail-related organisations will be advantageous.

• Ability to develop and manage customer and stakeholder relationships, through effective listening and influencing skills.

• Naturally curious, solution focussed and responsive to client problems.

• Experience of delivering value-plus/cross selling of services.

• Where appropriate, prior compliance with appropriate security clearance levels would be an advantage.

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.

Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all.

Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

With us, you can. Apply today.

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We are one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Our 69,300 passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion. With over 9,000 professionals across the UK and Ireland, we are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

Work-life balance

At WSP, we understand that work is just one aspect of your life. It’s important to make time for you, your family, friends, interests and your community.

Our hybrid working policy offers the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while also providing opportunities to collaborate in our modern offices across the UK.

Inclusivity & Diversity

We welcome applicants with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We enable rewarding careers by encouraging people to bring their whole and authentic selves to work so that our work represents the fullest spectrum of society. We celebrate integrity and treat people with respect, supporting each other and embracing diversity to create a culture of inclusion and belonging at WSP. We have our employee resource groups bring together employees and allies with different backgrounds to promote a culture of inclusivity.

Health & Wellbeing

We are committed to supporting our people, giving you the tools to make improvements to your health and wellbeing through our Thrive programme.

Med24 offers you and your family unlimited telephone access to an NHS doctor, available 24/7, with options for face-to-face video consultations. We also provide reasonable workplace adjustments for those in need. Additionally, you can benefit from the Gymflex scheme, which offers up to 40% off annual gym memberships through our WSP flexible benefits program, as well as a comprehensive menopause support package.

Flex your time

To enhance work-life balance, WSP offers the “WSP My Hour,” allowing you to take one hour each day for personal activities, with the flexibility to make up the time earlier or later that day.

We also provide part-time and flexible working arrangements, the option to purchase additional leave, and the ability to use your bank holiday entitlement to suit you.

Your development

We understand the importance of development and training to you. That’s why we foster a supportive environment that invests in your growth, whether through training, mentoring, or Chartership.

#WeAreWSP

Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.