Senior Project Manager PPCM

Mott MacDonald; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 155,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Life insurance

PTO

Bonus potential

Job summary

Mott MacDonald is seeking a Senior Project Manager in the North America region to lead and coordinate project management, procurement, and commercial activities across major infrastructure programs. The role focuses on delivering strategic client value, defining governance, and ensuring robust risk and change management within a hybrid in-office setup.

You will lead multidisciplinary teams, develop execution plans, and drive performance improvements while engaging stakeholders across transit,

Qualifications

• Experience developing procurement documentation for infrastructure projects.
• Knowledge of contracting, scheduling, and risk transfer.
• Ability to provide informed opinions on buildability concerns.
• Experience with GC/CM or PDB contracts and procurement structuring.
• Proficiency in project management processes and leading teams.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients to define strategic brief, goals and objectives.
• Support client to establish and procure project team.
• Define project success factors: time, cost, quality, environmental and social outcomes.
• Define governance structure aligned to requirements.
• Produce a detailed project execution plan and deliverables.
• Establish reporting requirements and progress reports.
• Lead multidiscipline teams across project lifecycle.
• Manage change control processes and project performance metrics.
• Develop and implement communication and information management plans.
• Mentor and lead team members across multiple projects.
• Oversee bids through WIN process and drive innovative solutions for efficiency.

Skills

Procurement documentation

Contracting knowledge

Scheduling

Risk transfer

Buildability input

GC/CM contracts

Procurement packages

Project management

Infrastructure projects

Leadership

Job description

At Mott MacDonald, we trust our brilliant people to do brilliant things in engineering, management, and development services, supporting multisector project work in over 150 countries. As one of the largest employee-owned companies in the world, we pride ourselves on our ability to deliver exceptional outcomes through our network of 20,000+ talented consultants. With sustainability and innovation at the heart of all our sectors in North America, including, Buildings, Energy, Transportation, and Water.

We believe in empowering our people to excel, learn, and grow, offering diverse opportunities to contribute to career-defining work. Join us and be part of a collaborative environment where your ambitions are united with ours, and you can truly shape your story.

If you share that vision, even if you don't meet every requirement listed, we'd still love to hear from you. We value potential and diverse perspectives as much as experience. Let's explore how we can support your growth and help you take the next step in your career, while contributing to an exciting new chapter for Mott MacDonald in North America.

At Mott MacDonald, we trust our brilliant people to do brilliant things in engineering, management, and development services, supporting multisector project work in over 150 countries. As one of the largest employee-owned companies in the world, we pride ourselves on our ability to deliver exceptional outcomes through our network of 20,000+ talented consultants. With sustainability and innovation at the heart of all our sectors in North America, including, Buildings, Energy, Transportation, and Water.

We believe in empowering our people to excel, learn, and grow, offering diverse opportunities to contribute to career-defining work. Join us and be part of a collaborative environment where your ambitions are united with ours, and you can truly shape your story.

If you share that vision, even if you don't meet every requirement listed, we'd still love to hear from you. We value potential and diverse perspectives as much as experience. Let's explore how we can support your growth and help you take the next step in your career, while contributing to an exciting new chapter for Mott MacDonald in North America.
Our Project, Program and Commercial Management (PPCM) team builds upon established client partnerships and enhances our traditional engineering services to more effectively address client needs and achieve their objectives. With expertise through the technical disciplines of program management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, Commercial and change management , our team is experiencing ambitious growth.

This position focuses on assisting client projects, developing crucial deliverables, and proactively seeking opportunities for growth. The candidate will help deliver several strategic initiatives for clients, including taking the lead on procurement commercial analysis and project controls, overseeing project setup for major infrastructure undertakings, commercial and contract change management.

The candidate should show excellent ethical judgment, think ahead, and be well-organized when leading the planning and coordination of negotiations in an environment with strict governance and high standards of probity.

Senior Project Management Services to include:

• Advising the client to help them define the strategic brief, including goals and objectives of the project
• 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 detail 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
• Team Leadership including managing and mentoring members of the team across multiple projects

Additional Internal Project Management and Business Development services to include:

• Manage our commissions in accordance with our BMS process
• Oversee resourcing and commercial performance of our commissions managing risk and maximizing opportunities
• Capturing project capability and add value evidence through Project Case studies and Client feedback
• Supporting account leaders to develop new opportunities for our business including cross-selling our solutions to help our clients overcome challenges
• Management of bids through our WIN process
• Driving innovation to support efficiency and quality of service delivery

Candidates who can demonstrate the following skills and experience will be considered for the role:

• 10+ years of career experience related to the development of technical procurement documentation, engineering and/or infrastructure development;
• Ideally, the candidate should possess a background in contracting, with knowledge of construction scheduling, risk transfer, and the ability to provide informed opinions on buildability concerns.
• Demonstrable knowledge and experience of preparing GC/CM or PDB contracts.
• Experience with structuring procurement packages.
• 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.

Benefits & Reward

At Mott MacDonald, our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, providing them with a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses. We provide a comprehensive benefit package that includes 401k, medical, dental and vision insurance, short-term/long-term disability, paid holidays, PTO, parental leave, and company paid life insurance.

Individual pay is determined based on several factors such as work location, education, experience, and unique skills.

The expected salary for this position is $155,000- $189,000

Collaboration at Our Core

At Mott MacDonald, we believe great ideas happen when we're together. Our hybrid approach centers on an in-office culture, with most of your time spent collaborating face-to-face and a minimum of three days per week in the office. We balance flexibility with connection, so you and your manager can choose how to meet client, team, and personal commitments.

Equal opportunity is the law.

We seek 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 have the opportunity to contribute.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status or disability status.