Digital Change Lead in Birmingham

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 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.

About the team: Our Aviation, Maritime and Offshore (AMO) Division comprises a growing team working across aviation, ports, coastal and offshore markets in the UK and internationally. We provide advisory, masterplanning, engineering, design and delivery support to a wide range of clients and complex infrastructure programmes. As AMO continues to grow, digital capability is becoming central to how we improve delivery, strengthen technical quality, reduce inefficiency and create a better day-to-day experience for our project teams.

Overview of the role: We are looking to recruit an AMO Digital Change Lead to drive practical digital transformation across our Aviation, Maritime and Offshore division. This role will fundamentally review how we work across our markets, working with technical and support staff at all levels to challenge current ways of working, identify inefficiencies, and implement digital improvements that make project delivery faster, more consistent and less burdensome for teams.

The role will move AMO beyond ad-hoc use of digital tools and towards a structured, delivery-focused approach to change. You will work directly with engineers, designers, master planners, advisory teams, project managers and support colleagues to understand how live projects and priority bids are delivered, where friction and duplication exist, and where digital tools, automation, analytics, AI and better information management can improve outcomes. The focus is not innovation for its own sake, but practical change that helps teams solve real delivery problems.

This role will help AMO implement its wider digital agenda, including embedding digital at the heart of the division to support delivering the outputs set out in the AMO business plan, particularly around productivity, efficiency, digital adoption, improved information management, and better use of technology to support growth and delivery. The role will help the division make the best possible use of the digital capabilities available.

The proposed model is a structured review programme across Aviation, Ports, and Coastal & Offshore. For each market, you will work with selected project managers, technical leads and delivery teams to map current delivery approaches on live projects and priority bids, identify recurring pain points, and develop a prioritised pipeline of improvements including quick wins, medium-term process changes and longer-term opportunities that may require investment or closer alignment with central capabilities. The role will help ensure digital transformation is treated as a delivery support function embedded into projects and bids.

You will work closely with market leads, project teams, technical excellence leads, operations, commercial and business support colleagues to identify where digital intervention can have the greatest impact. This will include engagement at bid stage, project inception and project close-out so that digital opportunities can be identified early, embedded into delivery plans and refined through lessons learned. The role will also help shape the case for targeted investment where additional digital capability, specialist support or tool access is needed to unlock measurable benefits.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Lead a structured review of AMO’s divisional activities across Aviation, Ports, and Coastal & Offshore to understand how work is delivered, where inefficiencies arise, and where digital change can add measurable value.
• Work directly with engineers, designers, master planners, advisory teams, project managers and support staff to map current workflows on live projects and priority bids, identifying duplication, friction, rework and avoidable administration.
• Develop and maintain a prioritised pipeline of digital improvements, including quick wins, medium-term process changes and longer-term opportunities requiring investment or wider business alignment.
• Identify and implement practical opportunities to reduce repetitive manual tasks, improve the quality and consistency of outputs, strengthen access to lessons learned and standard content, and improve information management across the division.
• Promote and support the use of automation, analytics, AI and specialist tools where they can improve delivery, while ensuring solutions remain proportionate, governed and aligned with business needs.
• Work with project and bid teams to embed digital thinking at bid stage, project mobilisation and project close-out so that opportunities are identified early and lessons are captured systematically.
• Support delivery of AMO’s wider digital agenda, including divisional investment planning.
• Collaborate with divisional leadership and central digital or technology colleagues to build the case for targeted investment, stronger support models and improved access to appropriate digital tools across the division.
• Track and communicate the benefits of digital change, including improvements to productivity, consistency, technical quality, collaboration and team wellbeing.
• Help create a practical transformation engine for AMO by ensuring digital activity is focused on solving real delivery problems and supporting the outputs required by the AMO business plan.

Candidate specification: We are seeking an individual with strong digital, IT and change leadership skills, combined with a practical understanding of project delivery in engineering and advisory environments. The ideal candidate will be able to work credibly with technical and support staff across all levels of the division, understand the realities of how projects and bids are delivered, and translate that understanding into practical digital improvements that make a measurable difference. A background in engineering, infrastructure delivery or a related technical environment, together with knowledge of the clients and markets AMO works in, would be highly beneficial.

Requirements:

• Strong digital and IT capability, with experience identifying and implementing technology-enabled improvements in delivery, operations or project environments.
• Good understanding of digital tools, automation, AI and information management, and the judgement to apply them pragmatically to real business needs.
• Experience of leading or supporting change programmes, continuous improvement initiatives, process reviews or digital transformation activities.
• Ability to engage credibly with engineers, designers, master planners, advisory teams, project managers and support colleagues, and to challenge existing ways of working constructively.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to understand workflows, identify root causes of inefficiency, and prioritise opportunities for improvement.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to work across all levels of the division and build support for change.
• Experience in engineering, infrastructure, technical advisory or a related environment would be highly beneficial.
• Knowledge of the types of clients, projects and delivery models relevant to AMO would be advantageous.
• Ability to balance innovation with practicality, governance, quality and commercial awareness.
• Self-motivated and delivery-focused, with the ability to translate strategic digital ambition into practical action and measurable outcomes.

We have a collegiate and collaborative culture which values equality and diversity, and we take proactive steps to create an inclusive workplace. Together, we are opening opportunities with connected thinking.

If you meet 80% or more of the requirements outlined above, we’d encourage you to apply, as we recognise that candidates may bring transferable skills and experience beyond the specific criteria listed.

Application deadline: Midnight on Friday 3rd July.

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.

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 reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• 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.
• Employee Ownership: Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success. Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• Health and wellbeing: Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues. Health cash plan to support you with every day 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 program, including access for you and your family.
• 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. 10 days additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers.
• 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.

Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities. We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Gold Award holders in the MOD Employer Recognition Scheme, supported by our dedicated internal Armed Forces Network. Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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