Associate

This strategy is key to the WSP in India Buildings Mechanical Electrical Public Health (MEP) business as we position ourselves to address the challenges of a changing global economy. The role is the cornerstone of the establishment of a MEP Design Capacity in Noida working and adhering to WSP Global standards and promoting technical excellence, in addition to creating and building a team. This will involve recruiting, leading, developing a team of Engineers over a relatively short period of time. The successful candidate will stimulate and manage significant growth in a technically demanding environment to time, cost and quality targets. Cultural awareness, an open mind and excellent communication skills are essential requirements for the role.

Responsibilities

A major element of this role is to liaise with the WSP in India design teams to ensure that the following essential elements of the role are satisfactorily completed: -

• Agree and confirm the project brief to anticipate and identify needs and expectations in conjunction with others.
• Agree the project deliverables and programme.
• Agree the resource in India that will be required to undertake the designs to complete the project brief in time and cost.
• Agree the project fees according to brief, resource required and programme.
• Be responsible for the quality of detailed design to WSP in India and Global Building Regulations standards ensuring technical reviews and sign off including complex calculations and co-ordination issues.
• Ensure design are co-ordinated and due consideration of Health & Safety, Construction Design Management and Quality Assurance standards.
• Regularly communicate and update the local Indian and wider Global project teams on programme delivery and quality issues through use of staff utilisation charts and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reporting etc.
• Review outputs of Computer Aided Design analysis, and determine additional levels of checking needed.
• Where necessary, development of energy strategies incorporating renewable technologies and low energy designs to satisfy local authority planning requirements and compliance with Building Regulations Part L.
• Inform the Commercial Director of Professional Indemnity issues in line with WSP in India policy.
• Ensure all company standards & efficient working practices are adopted.
• Maintain an overview & understanding of the team workload & associated resource requirements, and work with other team leaders to ensure resources are fully utilised, identify & address effectively any surplus or shortfall in available staff
• The successful candidate will be a dynamic self-motivated individual who will take on a Leadership role in project work, focused on delivery to the client and technical excellence.
• The role requires management of a number of projects and becoming involved in design at an early stage.