Mott MacDonald
Position location: Liverpool / Manchester
Recruiter contact: Danielle Judd
We're a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients' businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.
A fundamental part of this is respecting each person's differences and striving to meet their needs.
Our values:
P
rogress,
R
espect,
I
ntegrity,
D
rive,
E
xcellence.
Overview Of Role
Our transportation portfolio is primarily a UK based business working in three key sectors of rail, highways and aviation. We deliver programme, project and commercial management services to clients in mainland Europe, Africa, Middle East, India and Australasia and supporting other parts of the transportation business across the globe. Our vision is to deliver major transportation projects as part of a global business and to establish our wide-ranging consultancy as 'credible' and 'preferred' for our existing and new clients.
As
Project Manager
you will take accountability for the role of successfully delivering a variety of projects, from multi-disciplinary internal teams to external client secondments. Our vision is to deliver excellence to our stakeholders and be the clients first choice provider of PPCM in the ports sector.
We encourage cross sector opportunities to expand knowledge and experience. There will be opportunities to work on rail, highways and energy projects.
Main duties
The successful management of the development, design stages, delivery and handover of projects as instructed, ensuring:
* Processes and procedures are applied, and any governance protocols followed
* A project management plan is developed and maintained for each project
* Projects are scoped in accordance with agreed project objectives,
* Deliverables are clearly identified and executed,
* Key parameters of cost, time and quality are achieved providing a coherent and realistic action plan against deficiencies,
* Liaise with the projects H&S&W and CDM Representative, acting on advice provided to ensure that project / contractor CDM and Health and Safety compliance matters are satisfactorily discharged and/or adhered to,
* Establish effective stakeholder and communication management processes and structures across the project, Client and stakeholder teams, undertaking stakeholder mapping and understanding the role of project influencers, developing strong working relationships where appropriate. Specifically consider all necessary actions in terms of liaison, process mapping and reporting with statutory and technical assurance bodies, mitigating potential delays and costs to project performance through timely submissions and consenting requirements,
* Liaise and work across all commercial, procurement and general project control functions, providing the necessary project management input to deliver projects within the agreed project parameters,
* Assess the necessary level of resources and competence in the supply chain teams, taking all necessary reactive measures where required to ensure the required performance,
* Successful administration of the NEC suite of contracts for professional and contractor commissions as dictated by the projects, addressing performance to ensure contractually successful outcomes.
Candidate Specification
1. Degree in project management, or alternatively relevant experience.
2. Membership of APM, CIOB or RICS
3. Substantial project management expertise, some or all in a ports environment.
4. Understanding of administering contracts including use of NEC.
5. Strong client and stakeholder relationship building skills
6. Effective communication, with clients, project team and