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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.\nA little more about your role…\nAs an Associate or Associate Director based out of our Manchester office, you will provide technical leadership to our design teams and will use your knowledge and skills to deliver the right quality to time and budget. You will use those attributes to lead design teams and to mentor and support junior team members.\nIn this role your responsibilities will include:\nTechnical leadership of a variety of civil engineering and highway design projects both in the UK and overseas\nAct as a Project Manager on a wide range of projects, undertaking project reviews to optimise solutions and co-ordinate multi-disciplinary inputs\nManaging resources at project level and managing people within the local team\nAgreeing fees and managing the commercial position on projects\nLeading a culture of technical review and challenge\nDeveloping client relationships and helping them to achieve sustainable goals and future proof developments \nLeading and contributing to tenders/ bids\nSupervision and mentoring of junior members of the team\nSupport our lead for the Region and local Office Place Lead, along with the wider Development team and WSP with leadership & business development \nWork collaboratively with the Development team and our colleagues in the wider Planning and Development team and the wider WSP business to achieve our aims and objectives.\n\nThe Development Team is a well-established and high performing part of the Planning and Development discipline which includes over 800 colleagues focused on project delivery through the whole project life cycle, from initial land acquisition, planning support and design, through to scheme implementation and handover.\nOur vision is to be recognised as the best Development team in the industry. 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