Consultant - Design Management

• Assist in the management and coordination of the design process;
• Assist in recording design change processes and putting in place effective protocols to support delivery of a design solution;
• Have good understanding of the obligations to a project necessary to fulfil the scope of service agreement under the direction of the UK Design Manager;
• Have knowledge and experience of design management processes including defined project lifecycle frameworks;
• Be supportive to a UK Design Manager to enable him/her to provide leadership to a design process;
• Assist the Design Manager in the assessment of performance metrics by applying tools and procedures that contribute to successful project delivery;
• Make effective contribution to Design Management processes irrespective of the scale and complexity of the project;
• Able to operate independently by planning and prioritising their own work ensuring that scope of service obligations are met;
• Contribute to the design management strategy for assigned projects, so that the approach taken in each case is consistent with the UK Design Manager’s approach by being effective and appropriate to the project needs and client requirements;
• Assist in setting up the design management plan for assigned projects and monitor/record progress against this plan;
• Provide support to project control functions utilising all the tools necessary to ensure efficiency and effective records;
• Compile and maintain accurate deliverables required of the design manager for an assigned project;
• Proactively identify and highlight any threats to progress and scope of service obligations;
• Work with the WSP values to ensure that work complies with all necessary corporate, departmental and legislative requirements and procedures, to guarantee that the necessary consistency and quality of delivery is maintained.

• Good level of spoken and written English evidenced by an internationally recognised English language qualification;
• Being confident in obtaining information from people and being sufficiently proactive;
• Possess an ability to analyse information from different sources and assemble into a meaningful document in the form of a report, programme, spreadsheet, etc.
• Capable of managing, recording and prioritizing their own business activities, recognising and reconciling conflicts to their achievement;
• Be responsive to change and accurately record and communicate variations and their consequences;
• Comfortable with receiving instructions leading to defined tasks and accepting personal responsibility for their actions;
• Understands the criticality of providing support to an overseas manager to fulfil a defined contractual obligation;
• Conversant with Microsoft software such as Project, Excel, Powerpoint and Word;
• Knowledge of industry standards and best practices in Design Management;
• Capable of managing and prioritising own work;
• Possess a commercial awareness;
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English;
• Ability to work in a team environment;
• Routinely able to work to tight deadlines for UK and international projects;
• Comfortable working independently and is highly self-motivated;
• Able to communicate across time zones effectively and efficiently.

WSP is one of the world's leading 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 Transportation & Infrastructure, Property & Buildings, Earth & Environment, Power & Energy, Resources and Industry sectors, as well as offering strategic advisory services. Our talented people around the globe engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

With approximately 4,000 talented people across 3 locations (Noida, Bengaluru & Mumbai offices) in India and more than 73,000 globally , in 550 offices across 40 countries , we engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

At “WSP” we draw on the diverse skills and capabilities of our employees globally to compete for the most exciting and complex projects across the world and bring the same level of expertise to our local communities. We are proud to be an international collective of innovative thinkers who work on the most complex problems. Unified under one strong brand, we use our local expertise, international reach and global scale to prepare our cities and environments for the future, connect communities and help societies thrive in built and natural ecosystems. True to our guiding principles, our business is built on four cornerstones: Our People, Our Clients, Our Operational Excellence and Our Expertise.

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