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.
Overview Of The Role
Due to the expansion of our defence business, we have exciting opportunities for project management professionals to join our fast‑growing team in the UK. 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 within the infrastructure and equipment domains. All of the programmes are long‑term opportunities allowing you to grow and develop your career throughout.
Responsibilities
* Lead the safe and successful delivery of projects to agreed time, cost and quality parameters
* Lead the development and delivery of business cases
* Prepare and maintain schedules, including dependencies and resources
* Identify and monitor project risks and opportunities
* Ensure quality management processes for project activities and outputs
* Manage senior stakeholder relationships
* Lead project governance reviews
* Provide leadership and direction across all commercial, procurement and general project control functions, providing the necessary project management input to deliver projects within the agreed project parameters
* Administer the NEC suite of contracts (or similar) for professional and contractor commissions as dictated by the projects, addressing performance to ensure contractually successful outcomes
* Liaise with the projects health, safety and wellbeing representative, acting on advice provided to ensure that project / contractor CDM and Health and Safety compliance matters are satisfactorily discharged and/or adhered to
* Contribute to the business growth of the organisation
Candidate Specification
Essential
* Experience working on large defence infrastructure (or equipment) projects, or equivalent across other sectors
* Significant project management expertise across a range of disciplines, contract/procurement routes and market sectors
* Hold APM Chartered Project Professional status, or equivalent Chartership
* Full membership of the APM
* Hold NEC accreditation (3 or 4)
* Line management or team leader experience
* Operate with strong commercial acumen and knowledge of planning and project controls
* Ability to operate both autonomously and as a part of a larger team
* Excellent IT Skills – Word/Excel/PowerPoint
* Expert communication skills including writing reports and presenting
* Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with clients, stakeholders, colleagues and the supply chain
* Ability to demonstrate a flexible approach to work
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. 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 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.
Accessibility
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.
Benefits
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 programme, 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.
Location: Edinburgh, GB or Glasgow, GB
Contract Type: Permanent
Work Pattern: Full Time
Market: Defence and security
Discipline: Project programme and commercial management
Job Ref: 10143
Recruiter Contact: Danielle Judd
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