Senior / Principal Project Manager (Urban Transit)

Location/s: Altrincham, Birmingham, Croydon, Leeds; UK
Recruiter contact: Alice Roostan

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 
We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. From preparing the business case and advising on related issues - such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation - to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it. Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy. 

Overview of the role
This is an opportunity for an experienced, qualified and enthusiastic Project Management professional to join our Transport and Mobility Solutions (TMS) team, to lead on light rail projects which incorporate business case development, infrastructure design, specification production and stakeholder engagement across the UK. As the Project Manager, you will be part of the project senior leadership team with a primary focus on overall quality, safety, risk, change control, programme, resource allocation and commercial performance. You will work alongside a Project Technical Lead and will report to the Project Director and be responsible for coordinating the wider team to delivery outputs in line with scope, quality, budget and programme parameters. 

Your role will require you to co-ordinate multi-disciplinary design teams, draft and manage progress reports, EWNs and variations, monitor cost and schedule, manage the Health and Safety and Quality Assurance aspects of projects, implement our Business Management System requirements (training will be required) and deliver against contract. 

You will be confident in managing multi-disciplinary technical teams, ideally on light rail projects, as well as liaising directly with the client, and key stakeholders.

Candidate specification
Essential:

• Experience of managing multi-disciplinary projects in a complex environment
• Being able to work in a fast paced and dynamic environment, accommodating change and controlling the impact of this
• Demonstrable experience of establishing the project team and developing it, being responsible for the overall success of the project as per company directives and various contractual arrangements
  Experience in the establishment and monitoring of budgets
• Ability to resolve cost overruns, manage project capital and risks
• Experience of acting as principal point of contact with the client’s commercial and procurement teams for all commercial and contractual aspects
• Strong inter-personal and organisational skills, and have a proactive approach

Desirable:

• Experience of successfully working on light rail/tram projects in a project management or other management role
• Have achieved or be actively working towards a recognised Project Management qualification
• Experience producing tender documents and submissions to secure new work
• Experience of working for a variety of client types and project stages, from early business cases through to scheme delivery

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.

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