Construction Project Manager

Mott MacDonald; London Borough of Croydon; Hybride; GBP 70 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Private medical insurance

Health cash plan

Flexible benefits programme

Annual bonus scheme

Employee ownership

Résumé du poste

Mott MacDonald is recruiting a Senior Construction Consultant/Project Manager to join the APD team in the UK. You will lead complex infrastructure projects, provide constructability input, and drive schedules and delivery across multi-sector programmes.

Key responsibilities include coordinating design development, managing project teams, and maintaining strong client and stakeholder relationships while balancing cost, risk and time constraints to ensure successful outcomes.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in engineering or project management.
• Experience in construction planning and major infrastructure project delivery.
• Professional qualification with the APM, PMI or RICS.
• Membership of the APM.
• Chartered (or on track) with a relevant body (APM, CIWEM, ICE, CIOB, RICS).
• Proven delivery track record in construction within regulatory environments.
• Strong financial awareness and commercial acumen.
• Good leadership, people management and team-building skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Flexible and adaptable to respond to unexpected events.

Responsabilités

• Lead and manage complex projects or portfolios on major infrastructure schemes.
• Provide construction planning and constructability input.
• Support design development with constructability/buildability input.
• Develop construction-related data and schedules.
• Collaborate with clients, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to align timelines, risks and resources.
• Provide leadership and guidance to project teams and protect delivery interests.

Connaissances

Engineering degree or equivalent

Experience in construction planning

APM/PMI/RICS professionalqualification

APM membership

Chartered by APM/CIWEM/ICE/CIOB/RICS

Delivery of construction projects in监管

Financial awareness

Leadership and people management

Communication and interpersonal skills

Flexibility and adaptability

Formation

Engineering degree or related project management degree

APM/PMI/RICS qualification

APM membership

Chartered status with APM/CIWEM/ICE/CIOB/RICS

Description du poste

Location/s:

UK-wide

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

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.

Overview Of The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Construction Consultant/Project Manager to join our Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) business to provide project management support and construction planning/constructability input across multiple sectors. The role will include holistically managing and planning project delivery, supporting design development through constructability/buildability inputs and developing construction related data and schedules. Early stage input and constructability advise is required for planning authority consultation on the UK’s most significant and complex infrastructure programmes.

Involvement will be focused on long term, high impact projects that offer the opportunity to be part of something meaningful and fundamentally shape how future UK’s major infrastructure projects are delivered.

As Senior Project Manager you will be leading and managing your own complex project or portfolio of projects on major infrastructure schemes.

Additionally, we are looking to increase our internal capability to provide construction planning support and deliver construction and logistics outputs for early stage project delivery. You’ll be central to driving project maturity, ensuring design development recognises constructability issues and constraints whilst working closely with Clients, key stakeholders, technical and commercial teams to ensure timelines, risks, and resources are all aligned.

You will provide leadership and where required management to the project team, by demonstrating consistency in managing processes and by helping protect the commercial and delivery interests of the business.

Candidate specification

• A degree or similar qualification in engineering or project management subject
• Experience in construction planning and major infrastructure project delivery
• A relevant professional qualification with the APM, PMI or RICS
• Membership of the APM
• Chartered (or working towards chartership) with a relevant chartered body eg. APM (ChPP), CIWEM, ICE, CIOB, RICS
• Proven track record of delivery of projects in the construction industry in regulatory environments
• Strong financial awareness, commercial acumen and analytical skills
• Good leadership and people management skills and an ability to build and develop high performing teams
• Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills
• Flexibility and adaptability to respond rapidly to unexpected events, and an ability to develop creative solutions to problems

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.

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.

AI Usage

At Mott MacDonald, we see the value AI can bring, but we take a people-first approach to hiring. While AI tools can help candidates prepare and build confidence, every application and hiring decision is reviewed by our recruitment and hiring teams. We encourage the responsible use of AI while ensuring we get to know the real person behind the application.

Accessibility

We want you to feel supported and able to perform at your best throughout our recruitment process. If there is anything we can do to make applying or interviewing with us more accessible, please contact us at [e-mail] and we'll be happy to discuss how we can help.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

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.

Employee Ownership

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

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.

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.
• 10 days additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers.
• 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.
• We offer policies and dedicated support to help military families balance service life with career and wellbeing.

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.
• We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Gold Award holders in the MOD Employer Recognition Scheme, supported by our dedicated internal Armed Forces Network.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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