Senior Project Manager

Mott MacDonald; Belfast; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering consultancy seeks a Senior Project Manager to oversee rail projects in Belfast. The role involves managing feasibility studies and design services, ensuring project delivery in a D&B environment. Candidates should have strong project management experience and a deep understanding of the rail sector. This position offers excellent career development opportunities within a collaborative team.

Benefits

Flexible working

Pension matched up to 7%

Competitive annual leave

Annual performance bonus

Commitment to Continuing Professional Development

Qualifications

• Experience in project management required.
• Strong understanding of D&B environment essential.
• Proven experience with project controls and managing change.

Responsibilities

• Manage delivery of feasibility studies and design for UK rail clients.
• Oversee projects ranging from small renewals to large D&B schemes.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams on complex rail projects.

Skills

Project Management

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Change Management

Education

Chartered Project Professional

Tools

Primavera P6

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Location/s: Belfast, Dublin, Cork

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

We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. From preparing the business case and advising on related issues - such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation - to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it. Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.

Overview Of The Role

As a senior project manager in Rail division, you will be responsible for managing the delivery of feasibility studies, design and related professional services to a range of UK rail clients including transport authorities, design and build (D&B) contractors and rolling stock manufacturers. You will operate within a team of 40 project management professionals, managing the delivery of projects by our multidiscipline technical teams. Infrastructure projects will typically range from small renewals (£100k) through to large (£3m+) D&B schemes involving stations, bridges, access-for-all upgrades, track, signalling, telecoms, electrification and plant, traction power, overhead catenary and tunnel systems. Rolling stock projects will typically involve either new fleet procurement or fleet life-extension. Most of our projects will also include a systems engineering and assurance workstream.

We operate in a matrix structure, so you will have dual lines of reporting. Your discipline line of reporting will be via our Head of Discipline for Project Management. Each of your projects will have a Project Principal, within the client portfolio(s) to which you are assigned. As we progress through Network Rail’s Control Period 7, we are seeing an increasing proportion of our work being delivered via D&B contractors. We are therefore looking for senior project managers with a strong understanding of project delivery in a D&B environment.

We play a role in many of the UK’s largest and most complex rail projects. We offer a great environment in which you can develop your career as a project professional. Senior project managers who deliver positive outcomes for our clients, our staff and the company, are able to progress to project principal roles (supervising the work of other project managers) or towards roles in our flagship projects in the UK, or elsewhere in the world.

Candidate Specification

Essential

• Existing experience in project management
• Strong understanding of D&B environment by having:
• Managed the delivery of professional services (including design) to D&B contractors; or
• Managed the delivery of professional services (including design) by D&B contractors; or
• worked in D&B contractor organisations
• Strong understanding and proven experience in the use of project controls (e.g. earned value analysis)
• Strong understanding and proven experience in managing change on projects (administering, negotiating and/or closing)
• Strong analytical and numerical skills including the use of Excel
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English language
  

Desirable

• Chartered project professional (or approaching chartered status)
• Knowledge of rail environment (civil/structural, rail systems and/or rolling stock)
• Understanding of how design is performed on railway projects
• Knowledge of Network Rail processes for the delivery of ES1-5 studies/design projects
• Willingness to embrace ways of delivering projects more efficiently
• Experience in setting-up and/or administering NEC contracts
• Experience in agreeing final accounts for projects
• Experience in developing and updating project programmes using Primavera P6
• Experience in managing the technical or commercial aspects of bids/proposals
• Experience supervising early career project professionals
  
  

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.

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.

We Offer Some Fantastic Benefits Including

• Flexible working
• Pension matched up to 7% of base salary
• Competitive annual leave
• An annual professional institution subscription
• Life insurance
• Income continuance
• Enhanced Paternity leave
• Annual company performance bonus scheme – Subject to company performance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Travel TaxSaver tickets
• Commitment to Continuing Professional Development – we are accredited by Engineers Ireland
• Mentoring and support for career development and progression
  
  

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

Location(s):

Belfast, GB Dublin, IE Cork, IE

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Market: Transport

Discipline: Railways

Job Ref: 8627

Recruiter Contact: Alice Roostan

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management and Information Technology

• Industries

  Civil Engineering

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