Senior/ Principal Consultant - Strategy & Feasibility - Rail, Light Rail, Freight, Local Authorities

Description

• We are looking for consultants to join the Rail Strategy and Feasibility team at WSP. The team provides strategic rail advice to our clients. You will be responsible for providing advice to external and internal clients. You will be involved in multi-disciplinary projects and you will often take a central coordinating role.
• Engaging with our clients and taking a pro-active role in the WSP UK and global communities. We will expect you to build and use your network both externally and internally to solve problems and contribute to winning new work.
• Being responsible for developing our rail-focussed service offering in one of the following areas: rail, light rail, freight, local authorities.
• Being responsible for planning, managing and delivering tasks that contribute to large projects, and you may also take responsibility for planning, managing and delivering projects. You will have the opportunity to be involved with bidding for new work.

Requirements

• Experience working on rail, transport, light rail, freight or within transport for local authorities. An understanding of legislative and funding processes that relate to rail scheme development.
• Professionally qualified or working towards professional qualifications.
• An ability to think strategically, able to see the “big picture” and keep an eye on details when needed.
• Organisational skills, able to plan and manage tasks using a project management approach. Good stakeholder management, ability to manage project delivery teams.
• Understanding across a range of rail areas e.g. operational planning and strategic planning, business case development and engineering feasibility.
• An awareness and understanding of the consultancy environment.
• Microsoft proficiency.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance