We are delighted to welcome WSP to our membership community. Here you can read about what they do and what makes their organisation successful...
WSP is one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms. We are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower. We are technical experts and strategic advisors including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors and environmental specialists, as well as other design, program and construction management professionals. We design lasting solutions in the Property & Buildings, Transportation & Infrastructure, Environment, Industry, Resources (including Mining and Oil & Gas) and Power & Energy sectors as well as project delivery and strategic consulting services. With 7,800 talented people in the UK and more than 43,600 globally, we engineer projects that will help societies grow for lifetimes to come. WSP has been involved in many high profile UK projects including the Shard, Crossrail, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Manchester Metrolink, M1 Smart Motorway, the re-development of London Bridge Station, and the London Olympic & Paralympic Route Network.
WSP has grown from 2000 employees to over 7,000 since 2010, through mergers and acquisitions. Shared Services has always prioritised the facilitation our Engineers in the delivery of services to our Clients, leading to great cross-functional relationships across leadership and operational levels. Shared Services’ offer of flexible working leads to good levels of retention of experience in a competitive market. Evolution of senior leadership across Shared Services is leading to an evolution of strategy (willingness to focus on and invest in standardisation and simplification, to provide a robust platform on to which a significantly larger organisation can be anchored), closely aligned with the corporate strategy: to continue our rate of growth over the coming years.
