Project Manager

Mott Macdonald; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy in the UK seeks Project Managers for a unique opportunity in Defence projects. Candidates should hold a relevant degree, APM PMQ level qualification, and be flexible to travel. Responsibilities involve ownership of project delivery and stakeholder management within a hybrid working environment. Comprehensive benefits include private medical insurance and enhanced family leave policies, totaling 33–35 days holiday per year.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Health cash plan

Enhanced family leave policies

Annual bonus schemes

Flexible working arrangement

Qualifications

• Full UK Driving Licence is required.
• Member of the Association for Project Management (MAPM).
• Flexible to travel with potential overnight stays.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of project delivery.
• Developing and delivering business cases.
• Managing stakeholders and establishing project governance.

Skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Analytical thinking

Planning and organisational skills

Self-motivation

Leadership

Education

Degree level in a relevant subject

APM PMQ level qualified

Tools

Microsoft applications

Job description

What You Will Contribute To The Team

Owing to the organic expansion of our Defence portfolio we have a unique opportunity for Project Managers to join our fast‑growing teams in the Southwest. This is a unique opportunity to be involved in some of the most complex and challenging projects in the UK today. We are looking to attract the finest talent to be part of this journey as we mobilise for a number of key opportunities across a broad portfolio of Defence programmes.

Responsibilities

• Ownership of and responsibility for the successful delivery of your project
• Development and delivery of business cases
• Preparing and maintaining schedules, including dependencies and resources
• Identifying and monitoring project risks and opportunities
• Quality management processes for project activities and outputs
• Managing stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests
• Establishing and maintaining project governance reviews
• Developing managing teams
• Managing suppliers
• Security Clearance – conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance

UK Immigration Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is 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.

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.

Benefits

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with everyday 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.
• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6x 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.

Qualifications

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent in a relevant subject.
• Full UK Driving Licence.
• APM PMQ level qualified or equivalent (e.g. Managing Successful Programmes, PRINCE2 Practitioner).
• Member of the Association for Project Management (MAPM).
• Flexible to travel with the potential of overnight stays.

Preferred (But Not Required)

• Excellent oral and written communication and organisation skills.
• Good analytical thinking and research skills.
• Well‑developed planning and organisational skills and ability to continue to completion of existing projects and initiatives.
• Essential soft skills include: self‑motivation, taking initiative, leadership, adaptability and flexibility, effective listening, collaboration, influence and persuasion, insightfulness.
• Computer literacy in Microsoft applications.

Holiday Entitlement

• 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.