Associate, Electrical

About the Role

This role is the cornerstone of establishing a Mechanical Electrical Public Health (MEP) Design Capacity in Noida, adhering to WSP Global standards and promoting technical excellence. The successful candidate will stimulate and manage significant growth in a technically demanding environment, meeting 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 role elements.
• Agree and confirm project briefs, deliverables, and programmes.
• Determine and agree the necessary resource in India for timely and cost-effective project completion.
• Agree project fees based on brief, resource, and programme.
• Be responsible for the quality of detailed design to WSP in India and Global Building Regulations standards, including technical reviews, sign-off, complex calculations, and co-ordination issues.
• Ensure designs are co-ordinated, with due consideration for Health & Safety, Construction Design Management, and Quality Assurance standards.
• Communicate and update local Indian and global project teams on programme delivery and quality issues using staff utilization charts and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) reporting.
• Review Computer Aided Design analysis outputs and determine additional checking levels.
• Develop energy strategies incorporating renewable technologies and low energy designs to satisfy local authority planning requirements and Building Regulations Part L where necessary.
• Inform the Commercial Director of Professional Indemnity issues.
• Ensure adoption of company standards and efficient working practices.
• Maintain an overview of team workload and resource requirements, collaborating with other team leaders for full resource utilization and addressing staff surpluses or shortfalls.
• Take a leadership role in project work, focusing on client delivery and technical excellence.
• Manage multiple projects and engage in design from an early stage.
• Manage fees, invoicing, project-resource management, and mentor/coach junior team members.
• Plan and design deliverables against British Engineering standards.
• Participate in a short-term secondment to WSP in India offices and to meet personnel to understand the business and acclimatize to working methods.
• Lead the design process, set clear goals, monitor progress, and encourage cost-effective solutions.
• Support less experienced team members through technical review, mentoring, and advice.
• Lead from the front, accepting and resolving 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.
• Collaborate with Support Services, local resources, and other disciplines to ensure necessary hardware, software, workspace, and IT infrastructure are in place.
• Provide technical training, mentoring, and support to the new team, ensuring proficiency in required standards, processes, and software tools.
• Provide highly visible, inspirational leadership for the emerging Buildings team.
• Liaise with established GCC leadership 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 protocol and process effectiveness for continuous improvement.

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 GCC implementation within fee bids.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Project
• IES, Amtech, Hevacomp, Relux, Dialux (or similar technical mechanical or electrical software)
• British Engineering standards

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.
• Must be conversant with technical mechanical or electrical software.
• A sound understanding of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Project is essential.
• Must be 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.