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Technical Director - Liveable Places

Leeds
Posted 20 days ago
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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.

About The Role...

We are looking to appoint a Technical Director into WSP's Liveable Places team. The role can be based from any of our offices in the Midlands or Northern England - including our Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester or Newcastle offices - with flexible working allowing for a mix of home and in-office working.

WSP's Liveable Places team work with a wide range of local authority & private clients from across the UK to help them achieve their place making ambitions. As a Technical Director within the team you will take the lead on delivering a wide range of schemes from concept to delivery - including public realm, active travel, traffic engineering, road safety, parking, traffic signals and pedestrian / traffic modelling. You will support the leadership team in growing and developing our Liveable Places offering across the region.

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This Is a Varied Role With Responsibilities Including

  • Growing and developing our Liveable Places offering across the region, with a focus on new business whilst also working with existing clients to secure new opportunities.
  • Bringing fresh thinking and opportunities into our Liveable Places team.
  • Act as a Project Director for a range of Transport, Parking and Public Realm projects.
  • Work collaboratively with the Liveable Places team, and with colleagues across the wider WSP business to achieve our joint aims and objectives.

Your team...

The Liveable Places team are based in offices across the country with over 200 staff, currently making up the team and with further growth planned. We enjoy our work and are exceptionally enthusiastic people who are great at what we do. This is an excellent opportunity for you to develop in your career through exposure to a wide variety of experiences.

We have a strong track record working closely with our clients and this role provides a great opportunity to have a pivotal role within Liveable Places and help support and steer its growth going forward.

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We’d Love To Hear From If You Have

  • A civil engineering, landscape architecture, transport planning background or equivalent
  • Chartered membership of a relevant professional body
  • Significant knowledge and experience of delivering multi-disciplinary schemes across the project lifecycle with the proven ability to act as Project Director and Project Manager
  • Proven ability to lead and manage teams
  • Proven experience of managing significant client accounts with public and local authority clients
  • A track record of winning work

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Skills

Project Direction
Project Management
Client Account Management
Business Development
Civil Engineering
Transport Planning
Landscape Architecture
Public Realm Design
Active Travel
Traffic Engineering
Road Safety
Traffic Modelling
Team Leadership
Stakeholder Management
Multi-disciplinary Scheme Delivery

Location

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

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