Senior Project Manager

Mott MacDonald

Position location: London, UK / Cambridge, UK / Manchester, UK
Recruiter contact: Alice 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.

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

Overview of role

The Social Infrastructure team at Mott MacDonald delivers a range of meaningful projects to support vulnerable communities across the UK, relating to key policies in areas such as social care, early years and health.

You’ll be part of a team that oversees every aspect of the project life cycle, from concept and definition to implementation and handover. Our project managers also provide consultancy services to our clients, making the work varied and stimulating.  

Reporting to a Project Principal, you will manage projects or workstreams on major infrastructure projects or national programmes. This opportunity will enable you to support the development of this growing and diverse business whilst progressing your own career. The focus of this exciting new role and opportunity is to help build the growing business and to support our Clients by winning and delivering high quality project and programme management services that contribute to society and make the communities in which we live and work better.

Candidate Specification

• Degree aligned with Social Infrastructure markets (health, education, social care) and/or equivalent project management experience with sufficient expertise and ability to function and be recognised as a professional in chosen field.
• Membership of the APM
• Track record of achievement and innovation, delivering complex projects or new services
• Project management expertise, from the early stages of the project lifecycle, through to procurement and delivery
• Project management experience across a range of disciplines, including contract and procurement, able to provide specialist, high-level advice to more junior staff
• Experience of working for / with Client organisations would be an advantage
• Experience in administering contracts
• Strong client and stakeholder relationship building skills, with client-facing accountability and delivery of outputs
• Effective communication with clients, project teams and business managers
• High degree of commercial acumen and knowledge of planning and project controls
• Capable of working with little or no supervision on complex and non-standard assignments
• Ability to create an enjoyable and fulfilling work environment 
• Excellent written and oral communication
• Able to foster and promote collaborative working within and across Mott MacDonald and with Clients
• Evidence of well-developed external professional network
• Experiencing in managing and supervising work of professionally qualified staff
• Ability to operate both autonomously and as a part of a larger team
• Proven skills in Word/Excel/PowerPoint and experience of wider products such as PowerBI and other digital and data-related solutions

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. 

Social Infrastructure

Our Social Infrastructure portfolio is primarily a UK based business working in key sectors of education, public health and social care. Our work stretches from running training courses attended by individual teachers through to managing the £19m Adoption Support Fund on behalf of the government. 

We support local authorities, central government organisations, and health and social care providers improve service quality, meet increasing demand, and deliver better outcomes for communities. 

Our work stretches from running training courses for individual teachers, through to managing the Government’s £19m Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF). 

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. 

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.