Senior Project Manager

Location/s: Various locations, 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
As a senior project manager in Rail division, you will be responsible for managing the delivery of feasibility studies, design and related professional services to a range of UK rail clients including transport authorities, design and build (D&B) contractors and rolling stock manufacturers. You will operate within a team of 40 project management professionals, managing the delivery of projects by our multidiscipline technical teams.  Infrastructure projects will typically range from small renewals (£100k) through to large (£3m+) D&B schemes involving stations, bridges, access-for-all upgrades, track, signalling, telecoms, electrification and plant, traction power, overhead catenary and tunnel systems.  Rolling stock projects will typically involve either new fleet procurement or fleet life-extension.  Most of our projects will also include a systems engineering and assurance workstream.

We operate in a matrix structure, so you will have dual lines of reporting.  Your discipline line of reporting will be via our Head of Discipline for Project Management.  Each of your projects will have a Project Principal, within the client portfolio(s) to which you are assigned. As we progress through Network Rail’s Control Period 7, we are seeing an increasing proportion of our work being delivered via D&B contractors.  We are therefore looking for senior project managers with a strong understanding of project delivery in a D&B environment.

We play a role in many of the UK’s largest and most complex rail projects.  We offer a great environment in which you can develop your career as a project professional.  Senior project managers who deliver positive outcomes for our clients, our staff and the company, are able to progress to project principal roles (supervising the work of other project managers) or towards roles in our flagship projects in the UK, or elsewhere in the world.

Candidate Specification
Essential:

• Existing experience in project management
• Strong understanding of D&B environment by having:
  • Managed the delivery of professional services (including design) to D&B contractors; or
  • Managed the delivery of professional services (including design) by D&B contractors; or
  • worked in D&B contractor organisations
• Strong understanding and proven experience in the use of project controls (e.g. earned value analysis)
• Strong understanding and proven experience in managing change on projects (administering, negotiating and/or closing)
• Strong analytical and numerical skills including the use of Excel
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English language

Desirable:

• Chartered project professional (or approaching chartered status)
• Knowledge of rail environment (civil/structural, rail systems and/or rolling stock)
• Understanding of how design is performed on railway projects
• Knowledge of Network Rail processes for the delivery of ES1-5 studies/design projects
• Willingness to embrace ways of delivering projects more efficiently
• Experience in setting-up and/or administering NEC contracts
• Experience in agreeing final accounts for projects
• Experience in developing and updating project programmes using Primavera P6
• Experience in managing the technical or commercial aspects of bids/proposals
• Experience supervising early career project professionals

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.

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  

We are happy to talk openly about 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.

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