Principal Ecology

Job Description

• Key point of contact for UK-based business, including direct liaison with Nature Services & Arboriculture 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 Nature Services colleagues
• Providing operational and technical leadership in the coordination and successful delivery of our work delivered by ecology iCRC colleauges
• Ensuring client satisfaction and providing support in the production of outputs, as required
  
  
  

Responsibilities

Project management, technical leadership and timely delivery of technical outputs from inception to completion with a range of internal UK colleagues including:

• Act as the ‘ technical face’ of the India-based Ecology team
• Local health and safety, welfare, risk, information security, and assessment / compliance
• Project, programme and financial management
• Represents the interest of team which he/she leads
• Record of leadership of projects and teams, 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 GCC 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 Ecology 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
  
  
  

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
  
  
  

Qualifications

Significant experience in a relevant Environmental/ Ecology field

• Membership of relevant professional institution
  
  
  

Proven ability to apply innovation and advanced techniques to design and contract solutions

Successful track record of delivery in the infrastructure development sector within the context of a professional services provider

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