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Environmental Project Manager

Manage and deliver UK environmental projects across sectors, overseeing scope, budget, and teams.

City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Full Time
Expert & Leadership (13+ years)

Job Highlights

Environment
Hybrid

About the Role

You will lead smaller projects while supporting senior managers on larger programmes, gaining exposure, development and room to grow. The position also offers opportunities to line‑manage and mentor junior colleagues and to contribute to the team’s strategic direction. • Develop project proposals, defining scope, resources, schedule, and budgets. • Create and maintain project management documentation and plans. • Monitor project schedule, staff hours, budgets, forecasts, and progress. • Ensure health and safety information and internal approvals for site visits. • Manage contract administration and oversight. • Control project changes and risks, ensuring governance compliance. • Lead, mentor, and develop multidisciplinary environmental project teams. • Drive delivery of environmental improvement and net‑zero strategies. • Represent Environment and Consents with clients and internal stakeholders, building relationships.

Key Responsibilities

  • project proposals
  • documentation management
  • schedule monitoring
  • contract administration
  • risk management
  • net‑zero delivery

What You Bring

The ideal candidate has proven experience as an Assistant Project Manager or Project Manager, preferably in the environment or sustainability sector, and a genuine interest in land‑based sustainable development. You should be a confident communicator, possess strong programme‑management knowledge (MS Project/Primavera P6 or similar), demonstrate commercial and contractual awareness, and hold membership of a relevant professional institution or be working towards chartership.

Requirements

  • project management
  • ms project
  • primavera
  • communication
  • commercial awareness
  • chartership

Benefits

What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives, experiencing a world of opportunity and shaping a career as unique as you. We offer a hybrid working policy, generous work‑life balance initiatives, inclusive employee resource groups, health and wellbeing programmes such as Thrive and Virtual GP, flexible “WSP My Hour” for personal activities, part‑time and flexible working options, and continuous development through training, mentoring and chartership support.

Work Environment

Hybrid

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