Assistant Project Manager

Mott MacDonald

Position location: Dublin, Ireland
Recruiter contact: Alie Roostan 

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. 

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence. 

About the unit 

With extensive experience in the global defence sector, Mott MacDonald’s advisory and programme delivery teams deliver projects ranging from complex infrastructure upgrades to carbon reduction initiatives.   

Our experience in energy ranges from nuclear, renewables, hydro, thermal to electricity and gas, providing services to a global customer base within the energy sector, supporting the delivery of major capital projects and the transition to low-carbon generation. 

About us

The Advisory and Programme Delivery division (APD) delivers consultancy services to projects ranging in scale and complexity from £million’s to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting, education and healthcare management.

Overview of role 

What you will contribute to the team:

• Assist in establishing and delivering project specific objectives,
• Provide key support to the senior leaders in the delivery of commission obligations and internal project performance,
• Contribute to open communications across the project delivery and client teams,
• Establish effective communications across the project delivery, client and stakeholder teams,
• Implement problem solving and decision making,
• Adopt programme and business management systems across project teams,
• Control the internal and external commercial aspects of project across a range of contractual arrangements,
• Mentor less experience colleagues in the skills of project management,
• Contribute to securing opportunities and repeat business through the high quality of service delivery,

As part of our advisory team you will be responsible for:

• Supporting major transmission, distribution and generation developments across the UK and Ireland,
• Providing technical tender support – Project Management and technical matters.
• Actively assisting with business development and client management.
• Attending client and site visits as required – UK and Ireland.
• Working effectively on several projects concurrently to deliver to tight deadlines.
• Support, influence and actively establish a robust project delivery team with transmission, distribution and/or generation skillsets and experience.
• Support and mentor the career development of junior project professionals.

Essential 

• A degree in a construction, engineering or project management subject,
• Working towards a relevant professional qualification with RICS, CIOB, RIBA, APM or engineering discipline,
• Good client and stakeholder relationship building skills,
• Effective communication with client’s project team and business manager,
• Commercially aware,
• Willing to travel to site in Ireland 3 times per week. 

Desirable 

• Experience across all stages of the project lifecycle.
• Experience of Energy sector
• HVDC or AC experience.
• Experience of NEC contracts or similar contract arrangements.
• Excellent IT skills particularly MS Excel/Word/Project and PowerPoint.
• Ability to produce and review technical reports for project teams and clients, attention to detail is paramount.

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.

Agile working 

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

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.