Bridge Project Manager

Lead demanding bridge projects as part of an experienced bridge-design team. You will work as a project manager on demanding bridge projects in Finland and internationally. You will collaborate closely with experienced bridge designers and a multidisciplinary team, lead the project on the client side and keep the overall project under control. Everyday work is straightforward, and help is readily available. Our growth is reflected in our project portfolio and the strengthening of the team. This gives the project manager the opportunity to lead demanding bridge and special-structure projects and develop shared practices with the client, team and other parties. Our expertise is evident in numerous demanding projects in Finland and around the world, such as Kruunuvuorensilta and Chenab Bridge. In this role, you are responsible for the project’s overall progress: leading design work, coordinating solutions and managing schedules, resources, quality, costs and risks. You ensure smooth cooperation with contractors and other stakeholders. The role is tailored to your experience. Depending on your background, it can focus on technical project management or principal design while keeping overall project management at its core. What you will do As project manager, you ensure that the parties involved share an understanding of the situation and have a clear direction from objectives to feasible design solutions. You lead bridge and special-structure design projects, independently or as part of a multidisciplinary project: you define objectives with the client and guide design work towards the agreed goals. You keep design solutions, calculations and design documentation moving forward through the project’s different phases. Depending on your experience, you lead or coordinate condition investigations and define repair solutions. You lead cooperation with clients, contractors and stakeholders, and bring contributions from WSP’s other design disciplines into the project. You develop project-management and design practices and support the team on project leadership matters. You maintain an overview of projects, anticipate risks and ensure that decisions and next steps are clear to the client and project team. The position is available in Helsinki, Oulu, Tampere and Lahti. You can also work flexibly in a hybrid model from other locations. What we hope you bring A relevant university degree, such as an MSc in Technology or an engineering degree from a university of applied sciences, or equivalent. At least 10 years of experience in bridge design and/or special-structure design, and a track record of delivering demanding projects. Strong project-management skills: the ability to lead design as a whole, assess alternatives and bring decisions to completion together with the project team. Readiness to work with clients, lead stakeholder cooperation and ensure smooth collaboration in a multidisciplinary team. Fluent spoken and written Finnish, and the ability to work in English on international projects. Experience with demanding special structures, bridge condition inspections or repair design is an advantage. The following qualifications are also considered an advantage, but are not essential: qualifications for very demanding or exceptionally demanding concrete and steel design, bridge inspection, and repair design. Why WSP Bridges At WSP, you will lead demanding bridge projects in an experienced specialist team. We develop our work for the long term, everyday work is straightforward, and help is readily available. You will have clear project responsibility for demanding bridge projects. You will work with experienced specialists. Design solutions are considered together across professional and office boundaries. You can read more about our work in the article ‘Bridge design is teamwork’. You will join a team whose expertise is reflected in demanding bridge and special-structure projects in Finland and internationally, including Atlantinsilta, Kruunuvuorensilta, Kirjalansalmi Bridge, Chenab Bridge and Thu Thiem 2 Bridge, as well as numerous smaller projects. You will have the opportunity to deepen your expertise on demanding projects and maintain or update qualifications, such as FISE qualifications. You can influence project leadership and design practices and share learning from one project to the next with the team. Hybrid work, flexible ways of working and WSP employment benefits. Interested? Submit your application through the link by 2 November 2026 and attach your CV. Briefly describe your bridge-design background and what interests you about the role. You can also get in touch to ask questions or discuss the role before applying. Juha Saaranen, Department Manager, can provide further information at etunimi.sukunimi@wsp.com. Read more about WSP as an employer and its extensive employment benefits. We are simultaneously seeking specialists for several bridge-related design, repair-design, building-information-modelling and project-management roles. If your skills fit more than one opening, you do not need to choose between them in advance. Tell us about your background and the kind of responsibility you are looking for, and we can discuss the role that suits you best.