WSP - Head - Development Infrastructure

About Us:

WSP is one of the world's leading engineering 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 Property & Buildings, Transportation & Infrastructure, Environment, Industry, Resources (including Mining and Oil & Gas) and Power & Energy sectors as well as project delivery and strategic consulting services. With 42,000 talented people in more than 500 offices across 40 countries, we engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

With 700+ talented people in Noida & Bengaluru offices across India, we engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come. www.wsp.com.

There has never been a more rewarding time to be a WSP employee. The launch of our new brand is a direct reflection of what we have accomplished, where we are today and our vision for the future. It reflects our uncompromising determination for excellence and focus on connecting our employees, clients and other stakeholders to deliver complex and sustainable projects, paving the way for a future where society can thrive.

Job Requisites:

Role Summary:

We are seeking a Head for our India based team. The individual we seek will take responsibility for the technical delivery of projects, will act as the primary interface between the UK and India, will have line management responsibility and will be fundamental in growing our ICRC capability. Reporting to the Head of Development Infrastructure based in the UK this role is considered business critical.

Responsibilities:

- A working knowledge of UK standards

- Be experienced in 2 of the following 3 disciplines highways, drainage and earthworks

- Have demonstrable line management capability

- Demonstrate an ability to deliver projects to the correct technical standard within times and budgets agreed with the UK

- Demonstrate a financial understanding of project delivery

- Can actively communicate with colleagues in the UK

- Be willing to undertake periodic visits to the UK

Key Competencies / Skills:

Mandatory skills:

- Collaboration & Teamwork

- Commercial Acumen

- Technical Capability & Delivery

- Adaptability & Learning

- Work/ resource planning and allocation

- Demonstrable report writing expertise

Qualifications:

- 15+ years- experience preferably CENG

- Have the enthusiasm and energy to drive our growth strategy forward over the next 5 years in conjunction with our UK Head of DI. We seek to grow our current team by a factor 8 by the end of 2021

Our Guiding Principles:

We value our people and our reputation.

We make extraordinary efforts to attract, develop, engage and retain the best professionals in our fields of expertise because this is what makes us great. We put the highest ethical standards at the centre of all we do. Professionalism is inherent in our offering. We are humble and act with moral and intellectual integrity, keep our word, treat everyone with respect, support our colleagues, and embrace diversity. We care about individuals and their progress and offer the most fulfilling career development for our professionals. We promote our young recruits because we believe fresh perspectives bring great ideas and new energy.

We are locally dedicated with international scale.

Our strength is our ability to adapt to our client culture and local markets. We provide our clients with the same personalized services as a specialist firm while at the same time leveraging our worldwide expertise to undertake the most complex projects and assist our clients to realize their ambitions. We achieve this by remaining agile, with a common-sense approach, and by keeping our structure and business model simple and lean. Our focus on growth also allows us to better serve our clients by expanding our offering, expertise and geographical reach.

We are future-focused and challenge the status quo.

We anticipate trends in order to propose innovative ideas for our clients to meet their business objectives. We ask questions, look at complex problems from different angles and find solutions that break paradigms. We are problem-solvers who evolve, improve, modernize and excel. We know our solutions will shape the communities of tomorrow and help societies thrive sustainably. We embrace change and have an uncompromising determination to achieve excellence.

We foster collaboration in everything we do.

Our international agility is founded on our collaborative working environment. Our devotion to teamwork creates unique international networks of outstanding professionals who understand that great achievements come from collaboration. We embrace and support a high-performing culture, always strive to learn from others, and foster a stimulating work environment. We put the interest of our team ahead of our own and joining us is the best way to fully understand the collegiality that defines our firm.

We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable.

We are empowered to turn challenges into opportunities while being held accountable to standards beyond the norm. Our proactive leadership empowers us to be client-focused, agile and responsive, while at the same time being accountable to our clients, our peers and our shareholders. The profitability of our firm is essential to our future and this is why we manage our business responsibly as if it were our own.