Associate, Public Health

About the Role

This strategy is key to the WSP in India Buildings Mechanical Electrical Public Health (MEP) business, positioning the company to address the challenges of a changing global economy. The role is the cornerstone of establishing 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, and developing a team of Engineers over a relatively short period. 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 essential role elements.
• Agree and confirm the project brief to anticipate needs and expectations.
• Agree project deliverables and programme.
• Agree the required resources in India to undertake designs to complete the project brief in time and cost.
• 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 utilisation 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 utilised and to identify and address any surplus or shortfall.
• 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.
• Include a short-term secondment to visit key WSP in India offices and personnel to better understand WSP in India as a business and acclimatise to WSP in India methods of working.
• Lead the design process, set clear goals, monitor progress closely, and encourage the team to deliver appropriate and cost-effective solutions within the agreed programme. Support less experienced staff through technical review, mentoring, and advice.
• Lead from the front, accepting design challenges and giving them due consideration with the support of others to achieve resolution.

Establishment and Growth of GCC

• Responsible for the recruitment of the design team, in liaison with the Head of GCC.
• Contribute to the design of operational processes, systems, and measures.
• Working with Support Services, local resources, and other disciplines to ensure all hardware, software, workspace, and IT infrastructure are in place.
• Provide technical training, mentoring, and support to members of the new team, ensuring capability in the use of required standards, processes, and software tools at the earliest opportunity.
• Provide highly visible, inspirational leadership and direction for the emerging Buildings team, ensuring the Noida-based team feels part of the wider 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 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with the Head of GCC, monitoring and regularly reporting. 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 for continuous improvement.

Commercial

• Implement project delivery systems and structures.
• Support management of resource requirements versus project requirements.
• Support liaison with the UK business to drive up utilisation 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 with 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 is essential.
• 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.

Background Verification (BGV)

• Employment with WSP India is subject to successful completion of a background verification (BGV) check conducted by a third-party agency.
• Candidates are advised to ensure all information provided during the recruitment process is accurate and complete.