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Team Leader – MEP

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Role Summary

As a Team Leader, you will be responsible for the Health, Safety & Welfare, leadership and line management, workflow and technical governance within our GCC team.

The Key Activities would include (but not be limited to)

  • People focus: The role has a key responsibility for ensuring the health, safety and welfare of staff. The team leader is expected to demonstrate effective & visible leadership across projects, focusing on the ongoing engagement and retention of employees through the development of individuals and building high performing teams;

  • Business, operational & commercial management – delivering on business plan & budgetary targets;

  • Divisional Resource Management – GCC utilisation;

  • Supporting UK with bidding opportunities

  • Key point of contact with the UK business, direct liaison with UK Project Directors, and promoting the GCC and ensuring its success.

  • Line Manager / Staff Development – PDR Goals, support, training & mentoring

  • Lead, mentor and provide strong technical & people leadership.

  • Develop and maintain technical skills & competency assessment for the team and support their training & development.

  • Grow capability and capacity of the team to meet business growth strategies and maintain a delivery focused environment.

  • Manage goals & objectives, performance reviews, rewards & recognition and personal development plans of team members and support their career progression.

  • Manage staffing, talent retention strategies, succession planning and support talent acquisition.

  • Promote, support and drive a culture of health & safety within the team ensuring adherence to safety protocols and risk management strategies.

  • Engage with wider groups/teams of GCC to understand resources’ capability, needs, availability, focus areas for development and contribute to overall growth of GCC capabilities.

  • Technical governance of the GCC teams output working with UK technical governance of all deliverables

  • 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 require

Mandatory skills

  • Ability to make a difference, pro-actively manage requirements and risks and influence others to deliver successfully.

  • Excellent inter-personal skills, with strong leadership capable of communicating effectively with other members of the project team, stakeholders & Clients.

  • Significant experience of team management responsibilities including line management and day-to-day operations.

  • Experience of operating as a lead client contact for consultancy services and fostering of excellent relationships with Clients and co-professionals

  • Excellent spoken and written English

  • UK and International experience

  • Open minded and intellectually agile

  • Act ethically with fairness, honesty and integrity

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Mechanical / Electrical engineering or related field.

  • Minimum 15 years of experience in building services.

  • Chartered Engineering Status with the UK Engineering Council.

BGV:

  • Employment with WSP India is subject to the successful completion of a background verification (“BGV”) check conducted by a third-party agency appointed by WSP India.

  • Candidates are advised to ensure that all information provided during the recruitment process — including documents uploaded — is accurate and complete, both to WSP India and its BGV partner”.

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