Senior / Principal Project Manager

Mott MacDonald; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 45.000 - 85.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

An established industry player is seeking a Senior or Principal Project Manager to join their Water Consultancy Division. This role offers the chance to lead innovative projects addressing critical water supply and wastewater challenges. You will manage multidisciplinary teams, ensuring projects meet societal demands while maintaining high standards of quality and compliance. The company prides itself on its commitment to employee development and diversity, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. If you're passionate about making a societal impact through engineering, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Servicios

Life Assurance

Professional Membership Subscription

Formación

• Experience in clean/potable water pipeline design and wastewater network design.
• Proven project management capability in multidisciplinary environments.

Responsabilidades

• Lead design of sustainable solutions for water utility projects.
• Coordinate project teams and manage all aspects of project delivery.

Conocimientos

Project Management

Clean Water Design

Wastewater Infrastructure

Collaboration Skills

Communication Skills

Technical Quality Assurance

Change Management

Educación

Civil Engineering Degree

Professional Membership

Herramientas

NEC PS Contracts

CDM Regulations

Descripción del empleo

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

The Water Consultancy Division is Mott MacDonald’s centre of excellence for responding to water and wastewater challenges, offering fantastic opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations and protecting our environment. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies, through outline and detailed design, to construction support and site supervision.

Overview of role

Mott MacDonald is a market leader in the UK water sector, being a key supplier to major water companies and delivering a wide variety of engineering and advisory projects in support of the challenges faced by the sector. Working for a company like ours, with technical excellence at our core, offers you access to industry recognised experts in a variety of disciplines and the support and opportunities you are after for your career progression.

Our Water Consultancy Division has ambitious growth plans in line with AMP8 (2025-2030) investment needs and we are proud of our strong reputation in the industry which is allowing us to expand our business.

We cover all phases of the project lifecycle from feasibility studies through detailed design, construction support, and commissioning to handover. We also provide specialist technical support to colleagues across our global business, offering fantastic opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically complex work.

The scale of investment required in AMP8 is a significant challenge but also a major opportunity to provide a long-lasting legacy to our clients and their regions. It also requires new more efficient ways of delivering our services and for the successful candidate to demonstrate their ability to identify and implement innovations that maintain delivery to programme and commercial targets.

We are looking for a driven Senior or Principal Project Manager to play a pivotal role within our water engineering team.

As a Senior or Principal Project Manager, you will work with and manage a multidisciplinary team of technical specialists, delivering projects in close partnership with clients and contractors, building strong relationships that will enhance the company’s reputation and help secure further work.

In this role, you will lead the design of innovative and sustainable solutions to address leakage challenges, clean water provision, and sewage disposal across our water utility client’s assets, vital to meet the ever-growing societal demands of development, population growth, and climate change. Some of these projects are emergency work and reactive in nature - so you will need to lead fast-paced design, whilst managing change and impacts on the other projects within the wider programme.

You will be expected to coordinate project teams throughout the project lifecycle from design definition through to implementation, fulfilling all aspects to successfully manage projects including business management system compliance, technical quality assurance, programme and cost control management as well as leading client interface.

You will sometimes work closely with contractors, often on site, reacting to queries and changes. You will represent the company in meetings and supervise the work of more junior staff, providing technical and commercial guidance to support their development.

Candidate Specification

We are seeking a Senior or Principal Engineering Project Manager with strong UK clean / potable water and / or wastewater infrastructure experience, able to demonstrate the following attributes:

• Experience in clean / potable water pipeline design and / or wastewater network and associated infrastructure design and / or treatment works.
• Civil Engineering or other relevant degree.
• Full professional membership of a relevant chartered body.
• Experience of working in multi-disciplinary water engineering projects with technical disciplines including environmental specialists, geotechnical, civil, structural, electrical and mechanical engineers.
• Proven project management capability, having managed multiple and / or complex projects in a multidisciplinary environment using a proactive approach coupled with an ability to adapt to changing scenarios.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills to be able to enter into technical discussions in a logical and coherent fashion in both oral presentations and written reports, to colleagues, non-technical staff and clients.
• A drive to be abreast of professional development and knowledge of current and emerging technical solutions.
• Experience with NEC PS contracts.
• Good understanding of designers’ responsibilities under CDM.
• Experience in the UK water sector would be advantageous although not necessary.

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills, and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

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 and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

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

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Life assurance: 2 x salary will be paid to your chosen benefactor in the event of your death whilst employed by Mott MacDonald.
• Professional membership subscription: 1 professional subscription which is relevant to your job / field of expertise can be claimed per year.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.