NEC Project Manager

Mott MacDonald; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking consultancy as an NEC Project Manager, where you'll oversee the successful delivery of projects across various stages. This role emphasizes active stakeholder management, effective risk mitigation, and collaboration with delivery teams. You'll be part of a multidisciplinary team, contributing to impactful projects in the water and environment sector. With a commitment to employee growth and well-being, this position offers a dynamic work environment where your expertise will be valued and your career can flourish. Embrace the opportunity to make a difference while advancing your professional journey.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Health Cash Plan

Flexible Holiday Entitlement

Enhanced Family Leave Policies

Professional Development Opportunities

Employee Savings Schemes

Life Assurance

Income Protection Scheme

Annual Bonus Schemes

Wellbeing Support Programs

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering or project management required.
• Experience with NEC contracts and construction projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage NEC contracts for project lifecycle delivery.
• Ensure stakeholder involvement and manage project risks.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Risk Management

Communication Skills

NEC Contract Management

Project Management

Construction Project Delivery

Collaboration

Education

Degree in Engineering or Project Management

Professional Qualification (APM, CIOB, RICS)

NEC3 or 4 ECC Accreditation

Job description

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Discipline: Project programme and commercial management

Job Ref: 8520

Location/s: Cambridge / Peterborough - 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
Our multidisciplinary experts help water, wastewater, and government organisations find sustainable, cost-effective solutions to the challenges of climate change, net-zero, water scarcity and environmental protection. We work with around half of the UK’s regulated water and wastewater companies, and our work stretches across the entire project lifecycle - from pre-contract cost estimating and benchmarking, to post-contract quantity surveying and commercial assurance.

For project and programme management, we deliver capital projects on behalf of our clients, both internal and external that range from several hundred thousand pounds in value to major projects and programmes worth over £0.5bn.

Overview of the role
As an NEC Project Manager (contract management) you will be responsible for administrating NEC contracts on behalf of the client to enable successful delivery of projects through the lifecycle including: appraisal, planning, detailed design, construction and delivery phases.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Active stakeholder management to clarify requirements and agree project objectives and priorities
• Maintain stakeholder involvement in key decisions
• Work with the delivery teams to ensure proactive management of project risk and opportunities effectively - take responsibility for the identification, allocation and management of the project risk and opportunities, taking effective mitigation measures to reduce risk
• Support commercial objectives specific to the project
• Ensure necessary reporting & information is delivered on time, to the required standard
• Maintain excellent communications with the client and wider programme team
• Be responsible for ensuring the change control process is followed including managing and recording all change to time, cost and quality
• Coordinate and manage contract requirements (NEC) relating to design solutions, construction and commissioning
• Undertake assurance activities to ensure the contract is being administrated in line with best practice

Please note whilst our client is located in Peterborough or Cambridge travel from other locations may be covered.

• A degree in engineering, project management or related subject and/or;
• A relevant professional qualification or working towards a relevant professional qualification preferably APM, CIOB, RICS
• Full Membership, or working towards full membership of a relevant chartered body; MAPM, MCIWEM, MICE, MCIOB, MRICS etc
• Practical experience with NEC contracts · Experience across a range of disciplines, contract/procurement
• Experience delivering Construction and Infrastructure projects
• Working knowledge of NEC contracts
• Excellent written and oral communication
• Able to foster and promote collaborative working relationships
• Travel expectation is 3 days in a client office per week – travel may be covered
• Experience working on projects within the Water and Environment Sector
• Background of working within a consultancy/client side environment
• NEC3 or 4 ECC accreditation

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 [e-mail] and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

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.

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