Project Principal

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Role Purpose: Appointed by the Division General Manager and reporting to the Account Leader, the Project Principal provides oversight, independent of the project team, for single or multiple projects, ensuring that the project is delivered successfully for the client and for Mott MacDonald. Successful technical delivery and maintenance of trust between Client and the company is key to commercial and financial success for Mott MacDonald. The Project Principal oversees one or several Project Managers, challenging PMs and Mott MacDonald management as well as mentoring and coaching as necessary with the prime aim of ensuring the projects are able to deliver a successful outcome.

• Key Accountabilities - Project Principals are ultimately accountable for the successful completion of all projects under their oversight. Success means commercial, financial, technical success and realisation of client benefits agreed at WIN stage. Broken down it means:
• Accountable for commercial success. This means ensuring contract terms and risk mitigations from WIN are put into practice; that terms and risk are challenged during WIN to ensure project is feasible
• Accountable for financial success. This means challenging and supporting the PM to contest for sufficient resources to deliver and challenging interventions from P&L owners which reduce the ability to deliver
• Accountable for client satisfaction. This means supporting the PM to ensure that suitably skilled staff are made available by the GMs and Resourcing Managers and that action is taken to resolve significant relationship or issues of trust. It means managing the tension between internal and external needs.
• Accountable for sound project governance. This means instigating formal reviews and application of lessons learnt within the project, assessing whether project structure is fit for purpose, that risks are reviewed and mitigations put in place, and that the PPW is actively used to manage the project.
• Ultimately accountable for Health, Safety and Welfare. This means working to Mott MacDonald’s global standards and reviewing Health Safety and Welfare alongside project commercials and risk.
• Develop and Lead operations within the Project team by working with key stakeholders to develop strategic business plans and budgets in due consultation with Account Leaders, Practice Leaders and Resource Managers
• Grow and nurture external relationships with key clients. Assist Account Leaders in finalising and implementing CEPs for Key Accounts
• Assist Practice Leader in implementing Practice Plan, which will help the business in becoming more efficient
• Assist Project Principals in managing on-going projects- profitability, change orders, stakeholder 
• management and working capital
• Ensure adequate staffing as per business requirements with utilisation as per budget with necessary support from the Division Resource Manager
• Identify the emerging risks and opportunities on projects and escalate to Divisional General Manager with the correct strategies to mitigate
• Establish and nurture an innovative, challenging, collaborative and high performing work environment, which supports and fosters the Mott MacDonald values and culture.

Candidate Specification

• Qualification: B. Tech (Civil/ Mechanical/Chemical) and should have worked on delivery of high end complex design projects
• Led and managed driver’s teams - Project/ Technical/ Operational and multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience in driving resource utilisation/ cost optimisation and meeting the project timelines and deliverables.
• Proactive and quality oriented, with a client-centric outlook, together with a
• high sense of accountability.
• A demonstrable track record of meeting exacting technical standards .
• Good commercial awareness

Flexible working
At Mott MacDonald, we support our staff to create work-life balance which works for them and welcome candidates looking for career flexibility. We are open to discussing flexible working at interview stage.

Our benefits package is designed to enhance your experience:

• Agile working
• Critical illness and compassionate leave
• Paternity Leave
• Group term life insurance, and Group medical insurance coverage
• Career mobility options
• Short and Long-term global employment opportunities
• Global collaboration and knowledge sharing