Deputy Team Leader

Role: Deputy Team Leader

Location: Manila Philippines

Role ID: 2026-3271

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo member of WSP is a global strategic environmental and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3000 employees in more than 20 countries we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage the project team including assigning tasks tracking progress and providing coaching and guidance.
• Assist the Project Lead in preparing project plans timelines resources and budgets.
• Assist the Project Lead in oversight of project controls schedules cost and KPIs.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviors to the project team and project stakeholders
• Manage the interface between stakeholders contractors and the project team.
• Develop and maintain positive relationships with project stakeholders such as clients vendors and internal teams.
• Ensure all project governance processes and controls are adhered to.
• Ensure that all project deliverables are completed within the defined scope time and budget.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams (such as design development testing and deployment) to ensure the timely completion of project tasks
• Monitor project progress and report status updates to the Project Lead.
• Identify and mitigate project risks and issues and escalate to the Project Lead as required.
• Prepare project reports and presentations for project stakeholders including senior management.
• Overseeing document control process.
• Abide by applicable workplace health and safety policies and procedures
• Assist the Project Lead in representing Ricardo in The Philippines
• Any other duty assigned to you having regard to your skills training and

REQUIREMENTS:

• Professionally qualified engineer with Masters degree in railway / civil / electrical / mechanical engineering.
• Minimum 15 years of professional experience (project management professional would be valued).
• Minimum 10 years in project management and supervision of international large-scale (>USD 500 million) infrastructure projects in an urban context.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a leading position on project management and supervision of greenfield urban metro/LRT railway projects.
• Experience in ADB or similar international organizations financed projects would be valued.
• Technical writing skills are highly valued.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work whether that is working from home being in the office or as a hybrid worker. Were happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Diversity Equality and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer we believe in each persons potential and well help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity equality and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture we are a recognised as a disability confident employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team viaif you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.