Project Manager

Mott Macdonald; Moor Side; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consultancy is seeking a Project Manager to oversee major infrastructure projects. The role involves managing project development, ensuring governance protocols, and building relationships with stakeholders. The ideal candidate will possess substantial project management expertise and excellent communication skills, with a commitment to delivering high-quality services that contribute positively to society. This position is based in Moor Side, UK and offers a range of benefits including flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Health cash plan

Access to wellbeing programs

Pension contributions match up to 7%

Competitive annual leave

Qualifications

• Experience managing large project teams to successful outcomes.
• Ability to establish and maintain good relationships with clients and stakeholders.
• Flexibility to travel to client sites and other offices.

Responsibilities

• Manage development, design, delivery, and handover of infrastructure projects.
• Ensure governance protocols are followed and project management plans are maintained.
• Develop strong working relationships with project influencers and stakeholders.

Skills

Project management expertise

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Commercial acumen

IT Skills

Education

Membership or working towards APM

Tools

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Overview

Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients' businesses, our communities and employee opportunities. A fundamental part of this is respecting each person's differences and striving to meet their needs. Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence. Mott MacDonald is a global consultancy whose people do exactly that.

As a Project Manager you will manage your own projects or workstreams on major infrastructure projects. This opportunity will enable you to support the development of this growing and diverse business whilst progressing your own career. The focus of this role is to help build the growing business and to support our Clients by winning and delivering high quality project and programme management services that contribute to society and make the communities in which we live and work better.

Our North Eastern transportation team is expanding, and we have multiple exciting opportunities for project and commercial managers. We are a vibrant team based across York, Leeds, Sheffield and Newcastle with an ambitious goal of doubling our size in 2025 to match our expanding portfolio. Our core team consists of professionally qualified and experienced Project/Programme Managers, Planners, Commercial Managers, and Quantity Surveyors. We lead and deliver a broad range of exciting transportation projects and programmes through our integrated, full service, Project, Programme, and Commercial Management (PPCM). We deliver a one Mott MacDonald solution by collaborating closely with our clients in the transportation sector and leveraging Mott MacDonald’s technical excellence in engineering, development, and management services. We are seeking driven professionals with the right attitude to integrate both internally and externally, grow our team, represent Mott MacDonald, and to deliver excellent service to our clients. We operate in Aviation, Highways, Rail and Maritime. Our vision is to deliver major transportation projects as part of a global business and to establish our wide-ranging consultancy as 'credible' and 'preferred' for our existing and new clients.

Main duties

• The successful management of the development, design stages, delivery and handover of (built environment and infrastructure) projects as instructed, ensuring: processes and procedures are applied, governance protocols followed; a project management plan is developed and maintained for each project; projects are scoped in accordance with agreed project objectives; deliverables are clearly identified and executed; key parameters of cost, time and quality are achieved with a coherent and realistic action plan; liaise with the project’s H&S & CDM Representative to ensure CDM and Health and Safety compliance; establish effective stakeholder and communication management processes and structures across the project, undertaking stakeholder mapping and developing strong working relationships with project influencers; consider liaison, process mapping and reporting with statutory and technical assurance bodies; mitigate potential delays and costs through timely submissions and consenting requirements; liaise across commercial, procurement and project control functions to deliver projects within agreed parameters; assess resources and competence in supply chain teams and take reactive measures to ensure performance; administer NEC contracts for professional and contractor commissions as dictated by the projects to achieve contractually successful outcomes.
• 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 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.

Benefits and development

• 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 for significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
• 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.
• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.

Equality, diversity, inclusion and accessibility

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. 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.

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 embrace agility, flexibility and trust.

Qualifications

• Membership (or working towards) of the APM
• Substantial project management expertise across a wide range of disciplines, contract/procurement routes and market sectors
• Experience of managing and leading large project teams to successful outcomes
• High degree of commercial acumen and knowledge of planning and project controls
• Ability to operate both autonomously and as a part of a larger team
• Excellent IT Skills - Word/Excel/PowerPoint
• Strong communication skills including writing reports and presenting
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with clients, stakeholders, colleagues and the supply chain
• Ability to demonstrate a flexible approach to work
• Flexibility to travel to client sites and other MM offices

We can offer

• Pension matched up to 7%
• Competitive annual leave and the option to purchase additional annual leave
• An annual professional institution subscription
• Life insurance
• Enhanced parental leave
• Annual company performance bonus scheme - Subject to company performance
• Flexible benefits scheme to suit you, including cycle to work & Interest free season ticket loans etc.