Team Leader (Roads)

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At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

The Team Leader is responsible for leading day to day operational matters associated with their teams; you will support the Regional Director in leadership of people, projects, clients and business performance.

The role of a Team Leader is to embed a strong client and project culture around a technically excellent and efficient delivery model, balanced with the need to satisfy client, staff and commercial expectations.

The Team Leader will operate with moderate direct supervision from the Regional Director, and will be expected to take appropriate action in all aspects of the role to meet the expectations of the business.

A little more about your role…

Leadership

• Exhibit and demonstrate behaviours and attitudes in accordance with company values through effective team working with transparent and open communication.
• Visible and exemplary Health, Safety and Wellbeing leadership, including the completion of at least one formal health and safety focussed leadership engagement activity per month.
• Provide operational support to the Regional Director.
• Provide leadership and operational management, demonstrate an efficient delivery model balanced with the need to satisfy staff, client and commercial expectations.
• Lead teams to support the implementation of best practice.
• Provide co-ordination across the Group to ensure sharing of best practice and innovation.

Responsibilities:

• Support the Group by supporting and demonstrating a client and project centred culture in the Group. Represent the business internally and externally as appropriate.
• Manage risk and opportunity through implementation of effective control and review measures.
• Actively involved in building and maintaining key client relationships by supporting the Regional Growth Lead.
• Support bids by contributing to submissions to ensure added value both commercially and technically.
• Identify opportunities, develop capture strategies and plans, engage other teams to create winning proposals.
• Responsible for the management and leadership of teams in day to day operational matters.
• Maintain an overview of workload, utilisations and associated resource requirements and work with team leaders as appropriate to ensure resources are fully utilised within technical capability.
• Support all aspects associated with Quality/Health & Safety/Environment/Corporate within their teams.
• Responsibility and ensure compliance with SHEQ management systems.
• Support and ensure the integration of UK wide best practice ie. BMS, SHEQ.
• Ensure best practice relating to project reviews (technical and commercial).
• Interface with our GCC and promote its effective use within the region.
• Promote the PDR process and support career development; encourage training and learning in association with the Regional Director.
• Interface with the Regional Director on all staff matters requiring such support.
• Communicate recruitment needs to meet project and budget targets/demands to the Regional Director.
• Manage and support team leaders for extraordinary performance issues.
• Ensure effective implementation of commercial risk management controls, governance, reviews (bid, contract, project, business, etc), guidance and direction.
• Supporting the annual budget development, sign up and delivery.

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…

• Demonstrate excellent inter-personal skills with good leadership and management abilities; capable of communicating effectively with all parts of the business.
• Preferably with direct knowledge of the technical project delivery activities.
• Good stakeholder management and related relationship and excellent team management skills.
• Demonstrates the desire to constantly improve, motivate and encourage others; leads and implements change programmes; inspires colleagues and drives an innovative and supportive culture. Acts as a catalyst for change.
• Possesses a broad range of project experience, both within discipline and multi-disciplinary.
• Demonstrates an ability to communicate effectively and uses own knowledge to support and coach others as required. Actively champions sharing knowledge, ideas and intelligence. Strong presentation skills, able to lead and facilitate workshops, training sessions and one to one learning. Influential and persuasive internally and externally; encourages open dialogue and feedback within their teams.
• Able to establish, build, sustain and share strong, professional relationships with relevant internal and external groups. Driven to exceed client expectation.
• Able to reason logically and apply a systematic process to finding solutions; proactive in responding to problems; able to apply sound logic in situations of ambiguity and use problem solving methodologies across a range of circumstances.

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