Digital Change Lead in Bristol

We are recruiting an AMO Digital Change Lead to drive practical digital transformation across our Aviation, Maritime and Offshore (AMO) Division. The role will review current working methods, challenge inefficiencies, and implement digital improvements that make project delivery faster, more consistent, and less burdensome for teams. It will embed digital thinking into the entire delivery cycle and support the division’s wider digital agenda.

Key Responsibilities

• 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

• 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.

Eligibility

To be eligible for this role you must meet 80 % or more of the requirements outlined above. We recognise that candidates may bring transferable skills and experience beyond the specific criteria listed.

Benefits

• Financial wellbeing: Matching employee pension contributions between 4.5 % and 7 %, life assurance equal up to 4 × your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 × your salary, income protection scheme providing a financial benefit and support for long‑term illness or injury, flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing, annual bonus schemes that share the financial success of the business with all colleagues.
• Employee Ownership: No external investors – a culture of shared success, stake and a voice in the business through personal and group performance bonuses, career growth linked to increasing ownership stake, direct channel to senior leadership to shape future direction, senior roles have a direct pathway to ownership from day one.
• Health and wellbeing: Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues, health cash plan for everyday health costs and treatments, access to free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues, comprehensive wellbeing program for you and your family, option to flex your salary to opt into a range of health benefits, extendable to family.
• Lifestyle: Minimum of 33‑35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays; ability to buy or sell leave through flexible benefits programme, 10 days additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers, holiday entitlement increases to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service, access to employee saving schemes and discounts from high‑street retailers, enhanced family and carers leave, 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave; two weeks paid paternity/partner leave, shared parental leave matches maternity leave – up to 24 weeks at full pay, up to five additional days leave for significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid, policies and support to help military families balance service life with career and wellbeing.
• Learning and development: Primary annual professional institution subscription, broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training and self‑development options.
• Networks, communities and social outcomes: Wide range of employee networks supporting LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities, signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant and Gold Award holder in the MOD Employer Recognition Scheme, with an internal Armed Forces Network, opportunities to make a difference within communities through social outcomes initiatives.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. We welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes that do not require sponsorship.

Agile working

We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces well‑being, flexibility and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business and encourage individual expression in our workplace. Everyone is invited to contribute.

Accessibility

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 discuss how we can support you.

Job Details

Contract Type: Permanent, Work Pattern: Full Time, Market: Transport, Discipline: Other, Job Ref: 15115.