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Location/s: Exeter, Plymouth
Relocation supported: Not supported, but internal applications are welcome
Recruiter contact: Danielle Judd
Hiring manager contact: Becky Penn
Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.
We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.
Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.
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.
We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world-leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services.
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.
Defence & Energy
With extensive experience in the global defence sector, Mott MacDonald’s advisory and programme delivery teams support a wide range of clients including the UK Ministry of Defence, NATO, and international partners. Our work spans complex infrastructure upgrades, strategic asset management, and carbon reduction initiatives across land, air, maritime, and nuclear domains. Recent projects include the modernisation of submarine facilities at Devonport and Clyde, infrastructure delivery for theUS Visiting Forces (USVF)at RAF Lakenheath, and support for the AUKUS submarine partnership,as well as defence infrastructure across the UK.
In the energy sector, our expertise covers nuclear, renewables, hydro, thermal, and electricity and gas. We provide services to a global customer base, supporting the delivery of major capital projects and the transition to low-carbon generation. Our teams are helping shape the future of energy through innovative solutions that promote sustainability, resilience, and energy security.
Overview Of The Role
Owing to the organic expansion of our Defence portfolio we have a unique opportunity for Project Managers to join our fast-growing teams in the Southwest. This is a unique opportunity to be involved in some of the most complex and challenging projects in the UK today. We are looking to attract the finest talent to be part of this journey as we mobilise for a number of key opportunities across a broad portfolio of Defence programmes.
What You Will Contribute To The Team
* Ownership of and responsibility for the successful delivery of your project
* Development and delivery of business cases
* Preparing and maintaining schedules, including dependencies and resources
* Identifying and monitoring project risks and opportunities
* Quality management processes for project activities and outputs
* Managing stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests
* Establishing and maintaining project governance reviews
* Developing and managing teams
* Managing suppliers
* Required for the position of Project Manager
* Educated to Degree level or equivalent in a relevant subject
* Full UK Driving Licence
* APM PMQ level qualified or equivalent (e.g. Managing Successful Programmes, PRINCE2 Practitioner)
* Member of the Association for Project Management (MAPM)
* Flexible to travel with the potential of over night stays
Preferred, But Not Required
* Excellent oral and written communication and organisation skills
* Good analytical thinking and research skills
* Well-developed planning and organisational skills and ability to continue to completion existing projects and initiatives
* Essential soft skills include; self-motivation, taking initiative, leadership, adaptability and flexibility, effective listening, collaboration, influence and persuasion, insightfulness
* Computer literacy in Microsoft applications
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
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your 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. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.
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 to 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.
We Offer Some Fantastic Benefits Including
Health and wellbeing
* Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
* Health cash plan to support you with every day 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.
Financial wellbeing
* We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
* Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x 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.
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.
Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.
Location(s):
Plymouth, GB Exeter, GB
Contract Type: Permanent
Work Pattern: Full Time
Market: Defence and security
Discipline: Project programme and commercial management
Job Ref: 10548
Recruiter Contact: Danielle Judd
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Project Management and Information Technology
* Industries
Civil Engineering
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