Project Coordinator (Planning & Development) - #1697409

Job Description

What if you could shape a career as unique as you?

At WSP, you can always find opportunities to grow and do what matters to you. Make the most of our global reach to discover new challenges and chances to work with diverse, talented individuals who will help you expand your horizons.

To find out more about our Planning Consultancy business click on the following link and discover what awaits you at WSP: https://www.wsp.com/en-GB/services/town-planning-and-masterplanning

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.

A Little More About Your Role…

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 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.

The role can be based at any of our UK offices. With the main team presence in these offices: Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, London, Hertford, Guildford, Cambridge, Basingstoke or Southampton.

What We Will Be Looking For You To Demonstrate…

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.

Duties

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.

• 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
  
  

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.

About Us

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.