Location/s: UK-wide
Recruiter contact: Alice Roostan
About the business unit
Mott MacDonald's Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors.
APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.
Overview of the role
We're looking for a Senior Construction Consultant/Project Manager to join our Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) business to provide project management support and construction planning/constructability input across multiple sectors.
The role will include holistically managing and planning project delivery, supporting design development through constructability/buildability inputs and developing construction related data and schedules. Early stage input and constructability advice is required for planning authority consultation on the UK's most significant and complex infrastructure programmes.
As Senior Project Manager you will be leading and managing your own complex project or portfolio of projects on major infrastructure schemes.
Additionally, we are looking to increase our internal capability to provide construction planning support and deliver construction and logistics outputs for early stage project delivery. You'll be central to driving project maturity, ensuring design development recognises constructability issues and constraints whilst working closely with Clients, key stakeholders, technical and commercial teams to ensure timelines, risks, and resources are all aligned.
You will provide leadership and where required management to the project team, by demonstrating consistency in managing processes and by helping protect the commercial and delivery interests of the business.
Candidate specification
* A degree or similar qualification in engineering or project management subject
* Experience in construction planning and major infrastructure project delivery
* A relevant professional qualification with the APM, PMI or RICS
* Membership of the APM
* Chartered (or working towards chartership) with a relevant chartered body eg. APM (ChPP), CIWEM, ICE, CIOB, RICS
* Proven track record of delivery of projects in the construction industry in regulatory environments
* Strong financial awareness, commercial acumen and analytical skills
* Good leadership and people management skills and an ability to build and develop high performing teams
* Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills
* Flexibility and adaptability to respond rapidly to unexpected events, and an ability to develop creative solutions to problems
Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.
UK Immigration
Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.
Agile working
We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces well‑being, flexibility and trust.
Equality, diversity, and inclusion
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all.
Accessibility
We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.
Benefits
We offer some fantastic benefits including:
Financial wellbeing
* We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
* Life assurance equal up to 4 × your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 × your salary.
* Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long‑term illness or injury.
* Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
* As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
Employee Ownership
* Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
* Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
* As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long‑term impact and contribution.
* Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
* For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.
Health and wellbeing
* Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
* Health cash plan to support you with everyday health costs and treatments.
* Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
* A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
* Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
Lifestyle
* A minimum of 33‑35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
* Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years' service.
* Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high‑street retailers.
Enhanced family and carers leave
* Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
* Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
* Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
Learning and development
* Primary annual professional institution subscription.
* A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self‑development options.
Networks, communities, and social outcomes
* Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
* Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.
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