Principal Project Manager

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.

About The Unit

The Buildings Unit (BLD) has a major presence in Mott MacDonald’s regional offices throughout the UK and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross-sector skills across five key sectors: Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation, and Water. We also provide local services to customers and technical leadership to the rest of the Group in these sectors.

Overview Of The Role

• Lead the safe and successful delivery of projects to agreed time, cost and quality parameters.
• Lead the development and delivery of business cases.
• Preparation and maintenance of programmes and schedules, including dependencies and resources.
• Identifying and monitoring project risks and opportunities.
• Ensure quality management processes for project activities and outputs.
• Manage senior stakeholder relationships.
• Lead project governance reviews.
• Provide leadership and direction across all commercial, procurement and general project control functions, providing the necessary project management input to deliver projects within the agreed project parameters.
• Successful administration of the NEC suite of contracts (or similar) for professional and contractor commissions as dictated by the projects, addressing performance to ensure contractually successful outcomes.
• Liaise with the project’s health, safety and wellbeing representative, acting on advice provided to ensure that project/contractor CDM and Health and Safety compliance matters are satisfactorily discharged and/or adhered to.
• Contribute to the business growth of the organisation.

Candidate Specification

• Significant project management expertise across a range of disciplines, contract/procurement routes and market sectors.
• Hold NEC Accreditation (3 or 4).
• Operate with strong commercial acumen and knowledge of planning and project controls.
• Expert 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, this may involve regular travel to construction sites/client offices.

• Experience working on large defence infrastructure (or equipment) projects, or equivalent across other sectors.
• APM Chartered Project Professional status (ChPP), or equivalent Chartership.
• Full membership of the APM (MAPM).
• Ability to operate both autonomously and as a part of a larger team.
• Line management or team leader experience.
• Excellent IT Skills – Word/Excel/PowerPoint.

Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.

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 and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

We are happy to talk openly about flexible working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We Offer Some Fantastic Benefits Including

• Health and wellbeing: 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 programme, 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.
• Lifestyle: 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.

Location(s): Cambridge, GB; London, GB; Plymouth, GB; Exeter, GB; Bristol, GB

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Market: Buildings

Discipline: Project programme and commercial management

Job Ref: 8181

Recruiter Contact: Christopher Raybould