PROJECT ADMINISTRATOR, MANCHESTER OR LIVERPOOL

About the Role:

At WSP, there’s nothing we love more than pushing boundaries. Harnessing innovation and sharing insights across our diverse, international team to create a tomorrow’s world that’s cleaner, greener and safer. Join us and you’ll be part of an organisation that takes pride in its people and purpose: creating long-lasting solutions to meet the needs of generations to come.

The UK business is organised into four Strategic Business Units (SBU’s) with its core disciplines aligned as follows:

• Planning & Advisory: Environmental, Planning, Transport and Project & Commercial Services;
• Property & Buildings: Building Structures, Building Services and Building Specialists;
• Transport & Infrastructure: Highways, Rail, Civil Structures;
• Water, Energy & Industry: Power, Water and Process Engineering

The Planning Discipline has particular strengths in the following:

Development Sector

• Planning Consultancy – largely focussed on the development sectors
• Development Planning – focussed on transport planning in support of the consenting process across the development and infrastructure sectors
• Development Infrastructure – with a keen focus on development-related infrastructure and associated client commercial drivers and risk mitigation

Infrastructure Sector

• Infrastructure Planning – supporting DCO, TWAO and other regulatory consenting across the highways, rail, energy, water and other infrastructure sectors
• Planning Information Management – largely land referencing plus associated land advisory services in support of major infrastructure projects

Advisory

• Advisory – a fast-growing collection of front-end services including economics, pre-masterplanning, and investor / transaction-related advice

This role sits in the Management Services Team supporting the Development Sector working closely with the Operations Director and Operational Leads of primarily the Planning Consultancy with support to both the Development Planning and Development Infrastructure teams.

A typical week would include:

The Project Co-ordinator would be responsible for supporting the Operations Director and Operational Team Leads to deliver project support around budget delivery, project set up and monitoring and prospect capture.

The successful candidate will be working with project managers to ensure project information is captured within business management systems throughout the project lifecycle. Duties may include:

• Ensuring projects are billed within the month cycle
• Ensuring project forecasting is completed on a monthly cycle
• Recording and updating prospect data in within business management systems
• Setting up prospects and gathering sufficient data to convert to live projects
• Working with Operational Leads to drive data quality across teams
• Setting up clients and suppliers in our business management systems

A proficient administrator or someone starting their project management career who can demonstrate a high level of organisation and collaboration with senior staff. Demonstrates the desire to constantly improve business data and support others to achieve that goal.

Actively champions sharing knowledge and ideas. Facilitate workshops and training sessions around project processes and financial management. Establishing and building professional relationships with relevant internal staff. Apply a systematic process to finding solutions to data errors.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Experience of working in a highly organised and time critical environment
• Hold an introductory APM qualification or willing to obtain in post
• Able to reason logically and apply a systematic process to finding solutions
• Demonstrates an ability to communicate effectively
• Able to establish and build strong professional relationships
• Experience of delivering outcomes in line with business management systems
• Proficient at MS Excel

What if we can?

What if we can have work-life balance? What if we can be rewarded in ways that support our individual needs? What if we can be accepted for who we are? Here at WSP – we can!

WSP recognizes that work is only one part of our lives and making time for the other things in our life is important – be that our families, our friends or ourselves. So, if working from home, working part-time or having flexible start and finish time will help with this let us know as part of your application.

As well as rewarding you with competitive pay, WSP offers standard benefits including 25 days annual leave, pension schemes, life assurance, personal accident cover and paid professional subscriptions, and some not so standard benefits as part of our flexible benefits scheme – so if you would like to hop on a new bike (cycle to work scheme) or thrill the family with your Lego building skills (Discount at Legoland Windsor) – WSP can help!

Be you, be happy - Across our offices in the UK, we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects and maximises the contribution individuals can bring to WSP. We recognise the benefits that people with varying backgrounds and experiences can bring contribute to both our culture and the way we innovate when delivering our projects. We have a number of colleague networks, that everyone is invited to join, including our LGBTQ+ group (VIBE), CREED (Championing Racial Equality and Ethnic Diversity) as well as WSP Connect (visible and non-visible disabilities) and our Gender Balance Group. All groups work with the business to ensure we continue to promote the right environment to enable all employees to reach their full potential and to ensure we create a culture of Belonging@WSP.

Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender confirmation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.

In addition we support our people to achieve their personal health and well-being goals through our Thrive programme.

About us:

WSP is one of the world’s leading engineering professional services firms providing technical consultancy to the built and natural environment. We believe that for societies to thrive, we must all hold ourselves accountable for tomorrow. For us, that means creating innovative solutions to the challenges the future will bring to the communities and environments where we live and work across the UK.

We are locally dedicated 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, programme and construction management professionals. Our experts 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. And safety and sustainability are embedded in everything that we do.

Check out www.wsp.com for more info about the great work we do.

Please note that WSP reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the advertised closing date.

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