Associate

About the Role

This strategy is key to the WSP in India Buildings Mechanical Electrical Public Health (MEP) business. The role is the cornerstone of establishing an MEP Design Capacity in Noida, working and adhering to WSP Global standards and promoting technical excellence. This will involve recruiting, leading, and developing a team of Engineers. 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Liaise with WSP in India design teams to ensure satisfactory completion of essential role elements.
• Agree and confirm project briefs to anticipate and identify needs and expectations.
• Agree project deliverables and programmes.
• Agree on the resource in India required to undertake designs within time and cost targets.
• Agree project fees according to brief, resource, 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 designs are co-ordinated with due consideration of Health & Safety, Construction Design Management, and Quality Assurance standards.
• Regularly communicate and update local Indian and wider Global project teams on programme delivery and quality issues using staff utilization charts and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reporting.
• Review outputs of Computer Aided Design (CAD) analysis and determine additional checking levels.
• Develop 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.
• Ensure all company standards and efficient working practices are adopted.
• Maintain an overview and understanding of team workload and associated resource requirements, working with other team leaders to ensure resources are fully utilized and to identify and address any surplus or shortfall in available staff.
• Take on a Leadership role in project work, focused on delivery to the client and technical excellence.
• Manage a number of projects and become involved in design at an early stage.
• Manage fees, invoicing, project-resource management, mentoring, and coaching junior team members.
• Plan and design deliverables against British Engineering standards for each stage of a project.
• Undertake a short-term secondment to visit key WSP in India offices and personnel to understand the business and acclimatize to WSP in India methods of working.
• Lead the design process, set clear goals, monitor progress, and encourage the team to deliver appropriate and cost-effective solutions.
• Support inexperienced team members through technical review, mentoring, and advice.
• Lead from the front, accepting and giving due consideration to design challenges.

Establishment and Growth of GCC

• Recruit the design team in liaison with the Head of GCC.
• Contribute to the design of operational processes, systems, and measures.
• Ensure hardware, software, workspace, and IT infrastructure are in place, working with Support Services and other disciplines.
• Provide technical training, mentoring, and support to the new team members, ensuring capability in required standards, processes, and software tools.
• Provide highly visible, inspirational leadership and direction for the emerging Buildings team.
• Liaise with the established leadership of the GCC facility across the globe.
• Promote WSP in India Vision and Values.
• Support and promote teamwork within the team and the wider business.

Technical and Project Management

• Raise the level of technical competence within the teams.
• Implement delivery and quality measurement processes.
• Agree KPIs with the Head of GCC, monitor, and regularly report.
• Identify and implement improvements to increase KPIs.
• Promote technical excellence in all projects.
• Undertake technical reviews and contribute to concept design.
• Provide continuous feedback to the Head of GCC on the effectiveness of protocols and processes.

Commercial

• Implement project delivery systems and structures.
• Support management of resource requirements versus project requirements.
• Support liaison with UK business to drive up utilization of the GCC team.
• Support and advise the UK on the implementation of GCC within fee bids.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in the design of Building Services.
• Significant experience in a similar role or demonstration of a good track record.
• Proven experience in the design of Engineering Building Services.
• Conversant with technical mechanical or electrical software, such as IES, Amtech, Hevacomp, Relux, and Dialux.
• Sound understanding of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and Project.
• Fluent in English with an excellent understanding of technical terminology.
• Ideally obtained British Chartered Engineer status or equivalent.
• Ideally possess a degree in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering.
• Ideally possess membership to an accredited engineering body.

Note: Employment with WSP India is subject to successful completion of a background verification (“BGV”) check.