Senior Principal Project Manager – Infrastructure & Strategy

Mott MacDonald; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Life insurance

Performance bonuses

Job summary

At Mott MacDonald North America, we seek a Principal Project Manager to provide senior, client-embedded leadership across complex infrastructure projects and programs. This role combines project management with strong commercial and project controls capability, focusing on assisting client projects, developing deliverables, and proactively seeking opportunities for growth.

The successful candidate will help deliver strategic initiatives, lead procurement commercial analysis, oversee project

Qualifications

• 15+ years of career experience related to Project, Program and Commercial Management delivery.
• Experience working in client-facing or embedded delivery environments on large programs.
• Background in contracting, with knowledge of construction scheduling, risk transfer, and the ability to provide informed opinions on buildability concerns.
• Familiar and proficient with project management processes.
• Experience of projects in transit, water, tunnels, or highways projects are preferred.
• Knowledge and experience of risk identification, management, and mitigation.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and experience of leading and working within a team.
• Excellent written and presentation skills.
• Able to work independently and unsupervised.
• Positive attitude, team player.
• A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience; recognized project management, commercial, engineering, construction, or related professional credentials are preferred.

Responsibilities

• Act as trusted adviser to senior client stakeholders, translating strategic objectives into clear delivery priorities, governance arrangements, success measures, and decision pathways whilst maintaining goals and objectives of the project.
• Act as a key interface within the client-embedded delivery team, supporting real-time decision-making and collaboration.
• Support the client to establish and procure the project team.
• Define the project success factors including time, cost, quality, environmental, and social outcomes.
• Define and agree project governance structure aligned to client and legislative requirements.
• Produce a detailed project execution plan that outlines how the project will be managed.
• Establish reporting requirements and production of progress reports.
• Leading and acting as an integrator of multidiscipline services at all stages of the project life cycle.
• Establish and manage the change control process.
• Monitoring and advising upon project performance against success indicators.
• Implement performance management techniques, including the use of KPI's to improve project performance.
• Establish a communication strategy and information management plan and implement this across the project managing the interface between all parties and the client.

Skills

Project management

Commercial management

Client-facing

Scheduling

Risk management

Leadership

Communication

Contracting

Education

Relevant degree

Job description

At Mott MacDonald North America, we seek a Principal Project Manager to provide senior, client-embedded leadership across complex infrastructure projects and programs. This role combines project management with strong commercial and project controls capability, focusing on assisting client projects, developing deliverables, and proactively seeking opportunities for growth.

The successful candidate will help deliver strategic initiatives, lead procurement commercial analysis, oversee project