12 Oct
WSP in India
Kolhapur
OB REQUISITES
Role Summary
- Key point of contact for UK-based business, including direct liaison with Sustainability & Safety advisory business’s directors
- Commercial management and reporting, workload forecasting and planning of resources for the team
- Supervising and directing local delivery to support projects and assisting in the professional and technical development of Environmental colleagues
- Providing operational and technical leadership in the coordination and successful delivery of our work delivered by the full range of Sustainability & Safety advisory disciplines, supporting projects in the UK and elsewhere.
The current team in the sustainability and safety advisory comprise of three different service lines with following key skill set:
- Sustainability and Climate change - Net zero, climate resilience and adaptation, green building certification, microclimate assessment, industrial decarbonisation, ESG strategy, Energy audits, sustainability advisory services , sustainability reporting , SDG planning and management
- Health & Safety – Construction safety , process safety, Product stewardship, CDM 2015 and H&S; related services, EHS and H&S; Audit, Asbestos Risk & Survey assessment.
- Strategic advisory – Responsible consumption and production, circularity and resource management, environmental permitting and compliance, Environmental Policy & Economics, EHS Regulatory Update Support
- Ensuring client satisfaction and providing support in the production of outputs, as required
- Incumbent to have responsibility for the leadership of local Sustainability and safety advisory team ensuring team development, career progression and satisfaction is achieved
Responsibilities
Team leader Sustainability & Safety Advisory will lead the Sustainability & Safety Advisory team in the Earth & Environment discipline in UK iCRC. Key responsibilities for the position include leadership skill, team management, Project management. The person will
- Act as the face of the India-based Sustainability and Safety advisory team
- Represents the interest of the team that he/she leads ,
- Record of leadership of projects and teams, and providing consultancy services at a high level to client.
- Have proven successful project management record of larger, multiple and/or more complex projects and tasks
- Possess excellent commercial skills and accountability and drives commercial excellence within their projects and teams
- Have proven track record of technical oversight and guidance of people, teams, proposals, and projects
- Proven track record in producing clear and well written bid documents/ reports and communicates professionally and concisely to clients and co-workers
- Ensures and maintains a high-quality standard of work from all team and project members through robust review and constructive and developmental feedback
- Understands the challenges and works collaboratively to find, and implement solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Promote WSP Vision and Values
- Actively promote the UK iCRC Charter within the team and that the staff deliver on the Charter promises
- Interfacing with multi-disciplinary project teams
- Provide highly visible,
inspirational leadership and direction for the iCRC sustainability and safety advisory team and ensuring that it is aligned with the wider UK business
- Identify opportunities to upskill existing technical resources or recruit new capabilities to deliver additional services or enhance existing ones
- Seek regular feedback on team performances, ensure criticisms are positively converted into opportunities for improvement, lessons learned exercises with appropriate changes implemented
- Develop / maintain excellent client 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 performance KPIs
Client / External focus
- Maintain strong colleague relationships and contribute to the teams’ performance of client satisfaction
- Contribute to knowledge sharing in internal and external forums
- Remain up to date with market and competitor knowledge
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 Safety (Safety by Design)
- Deliver successful commercial performance by clearly understanding and monitoring the area of work and ensure agreed targets are met
- Be responsible for the quality of technical outputs to WSP standards including any specific UK 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 utilizations is met or exceeded
- Ensure budgeted earning capacity is met or exceeded
▶️ Team leader - Sustainability & Safety Advisory - UK
🖊️ WSP in India
📍 Kolhapur