Team Manager, Asset Management and Planning

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- Work your own way - flexible work hours and hybrid WFH model
- Join a culture of culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion

**What if you could create the career of a lifetime?**

Our goal is to help you achieve your ambitions by collaborating on projects that will shape our environment for years to come. With WSP’s scale and reach, your future has virtually no boundaries as you can work on the best projects almost anywhere in the world.

We are committed to creating positive, long-lasting impacts on communities through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion. Additionally, WSP offers competitive compensation, a very flexible work model, beautiful and mindfully designed offices, and opportunities for professional growth.

**Our AMP team** - We are a national team that has traditionally delivered consulting work in strategic planning, master planning, detailed planning, business cases and all aspects of asset management service involving water and sewer networks, pumping stations, conveyance, and other water infrastructure. Our clients include Unitywater, Urban Utilities, Gold Coast Water and Waste, Taswater, Sydney Water, Hunter Water, Icon Water, Water NSW, South East Water, Greater Western Water, Gippsland Water, Melbourne Water, SA Water and regional clients. We are in the privileged position of having an impressive backlog of work, which provides us with a stable platform and the ability to be reasonably selective with regards to the broad range of tendering opportunities in the market.

**The Opportunity**:
Reporting to the Water Section Executive, Asset Management & Planning, our client-focused Team Manager will be responsible for the day-to-day management of our growing AMP water team and will interact with clients and potential clients to nurture WSP’s future pipeline of work. The role encompasses:

- Being responsible for the commercial and financial performance of the team. This includes managing team utilisation and project governance
- Leading the business development and positioning activities for pursuits, and preparing key tenders for the AMP water team
- Maintaining performance in accordance with strategic performance goals
- Being responsible for maintaining staff well-being and leading the professional development of direct reports
- Supporting and mentoring staff
- Promoting diversity and inclusion and encouraging a healthy balance for team members
- Translating strategic plans into action plans, and implementing key actions
- Planning the team’s short-term and long-term resourcing to maximise efficiency
- Active involvement in shaping the industry and events through committees, industry bodies, publishing papers.
- Maintain 50% billability on project work

**What we'll love about you**:
This role is strategically important to our future growth and impact. We are looking for a leader who can support and develop the team and provide an environment where the team can thrive and be successful.
- Previous team management experience desirable
- Well-connected within the Water utilities market (Strong preference for Victorian water market)
- Project Management experience
- Experience in commercial aspects of projects in a consulting environment
- Experience in infrastructure planning and/or detailed planning of water, recycled water, and sewerage infrastructure.
- Proven ability to develop strategic plans for growth and development of the team in line with greater business
- Proven ability to successfully interpret strategic plans into action plans and achieve the action plans
- Track record of winning work in this market sector
- Experience in dealing with and solving client issues and concerns relating to projects and project teams

**About WSP**

WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services firms, bringing together approximately 6,000 talented people across 15 offices in Australia. We are technical experts who design and provide strategic advice on sustainable solutions and engineer Future ReadyTM projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come.

At WSP, we want you to embrace your curiosity and work in a culture celebrating different perspectives. With access to global scale and reach, you’ll connect with the brightest minds in the field to make the best work of your life.

We believe that in imagining a better future for us all, you’ll imagine a better future for you.

To find out more about our commitment to the health and wellbeing of our people, and the programs we’ve designed to help you thrive, go to our Benefits page.

**WSP. With us, you can.**

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