Head of Energy & Water | WSP | Jobs in Bangalore

Company Name: WSP

Job Title : Head of Energy & Water

VacancyID: 11970

Location: Asia - India - Bangalore

Type: Permanent

Closing Date:9/30/2017





Introduction

• Key point of contact for our UK-based business, including direct liaison with our Energy and Water Business Stream Directors and Technical Directors
• Commercial management and reporting, workload forecasting and planning of resources for the India based team
• Supervising ensuring the competence, quality and timely submission of detailed engineering deliverables and coordinate inputs from other areas across the business both in India and the UK
• Liaising with project managers you will play a key role in both managing technical input to our projects and ensuring that deliverables are appropriate and fit-for-purpose. Ensuring client satisfaction and providing support in the production of outputs, as required
• Incumbent to have responsibility for the leadership of local Energy and Water teams ensuring team development, career progression and satisfaction is achieved

Responsibilities

• Project management, technical leadership and timely delivery of technical outputs from inception to completion with a range of internal UK colleagues including:
• Act as the ‘face’ of the India-based Energy and Water team
• Local health and safety, welfare, risk, information security, and assessment / compliance
• Project, programme and financial management
• Promote WSP Vision and Values
• Actively promote the UK iCRC Charter within the team and that the staff deliver on the Charter promises
• Interfacing with multi-disciplinary project teams
• Supervising the preparation and checking of documents, reports and other technical outputs / deliverables from a variety of Energy and Water related disciplines 
• Provide highly visible, inspirational leadership and direction for the iCRC Energy and Water team and ensuring that it is aligned with the wider UK business
• Mentoring team members towards professional accreditation or equivalent
• Carry out and report on staff appraisals and performance development reviews 
• Recruitment to achieve budgeted and programmed team growth
• Monitor and review team capability in the use of the required standards, processes and software tools and, with technical colleagues, identify training required
• Identify opportunities to upskill existing technical resources or recruit new capabilities to deliver additional services or enhance existing ones
• Identify further skills that could be brought into the iCRC to deliver additional services or enhancements to the Energy and Water businesses
• Promote the team's achievements within the team, Energy and Water business, WSP UK and the wider business via targeted profile raising activities
• Ensuring that quality procedures are implemented and maintained
• Seek regular feedback on team performances, ensure criticisms are positively converted into opportunities for improvement, lessons learned exercises with appropriate changes implemented
• Develop / maintain excellent client relationships ensuring repeat business and client satisfaction, internally and externally 
• Contribution to bids and marketing material
• Contribute to the design of operational processes, systems, quality measurement processes and achievement of performance KPIs
• Ensure designs are coordinated with due consideration of any applicable Health & Safety, CDM or Quality Assurance standards
• Interpretation of statutory and industry requirements, standards and practices to our Strategies and Policies 
• Carry out audits of adherence to WSP Management and Quality processes and implement corrective measures where required

Client / External focus

• Maintain strong colleague relationships and contribute to the teams’ performance of client satisfaction 
• Contribute to knowledge sharing in internal and external forums
• Remain up to date with market and competitor knowledge
• People
• Inclusively lead people, clearly articulating the vision, defining responsibilities, delegating effectively and providing constructive feedback
• Inspire and motivate departmental staff towards technical progression
• Be self-motivated to take on a leadership role in project work with a clear focus on timeliness, quality and technical excellence.
• Managing people through change and develop succession plans
• Create and support innovation
• Deal with conflict appropriately
• Work across cultures (e.g. international and/or multi-disciplinary projects), embracing diverse points of view
• Business Focus
• Proactively influences Health and Safety (Safety by Design)
• Deliver successful commercial performance by clearly understanding and monitoring the area of work and ensure agreed targets are met
• Be responsible for the quality of technical outputs to WSP standards including any specific UK client standards
• Identify appropriately qualified staff to deliver projects with regard to the constraints of project budgets
• Champion and mentor others in use of agreed systems and processes
• Explore ways to add value and improve personal and team performance
• Manage opportunities, risks and project changes / variations so that these deliver advantage to the business
• Ensure budget utilizations is met or exceeded
• Ensure budgeted earning capacity is met or exceeded

Requirements
Mandatory:

• A good working understanding of all thermal power technologies & fuels including boilers, gas turbines, reciprocating engines and gasifiers gained either in an OEM, EPC or consultancy environment
• Experience of working on detail design projects and ensuring the quality and accuracy of deliverables such as drawings, bills of materials and other related schedules
• Excellent communication, internal client handling, interpersonal skills and listening skills with the ability to influence and interact with people 
• Comfortable leading internal engineering discussions and the experience and ability to understand, evaluate and explain complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical professionals
• Technical manager with management acumen and strong leadership skills
• Excellent spoken and written English
• UK and International experience 
• Open minded and intellectually agile
• A hard working self-starter with initiative and ability to work within a team environment 
• Understand own strengths and impact, adapting behaviour according to different situations and individuals
• Professional manner and able to work effectively under pressure
• Act ethically with fairness, honesty and integrity
• Capacity to visit UK every 2 to 3 months for up to 2 weeks

Desired:

• Membership of relevant professional institution
• Proven ability to apply innovation and advanced techniques to design and contract solutions
• Successful track record of delivery of large detail design projects in the Energy and Water sector within the context of a professional services provider
• Awareness of different lifecycles and the implementation of lifecycle approaches to projects

Qualifications

• Educated to Bachelor / Master’s degree level in an Energy and Water related discipline such as Mechanical, Electrical or Process engineering.
• Membership of an appropriate professional body an advantage (e.g. IMechE, IET)
• 15-20 years’ experience

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