Major Projects Design or Project Manager in Croydon

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.

We are looking for Project Managers or Design Managers for our Major Projects with a track record of delivering complex multi-disciplinary projects from concept design through to Detailed Design to join our Heavy Civil Infrastructure Division. You will be responsible for project team leadership and overall project delivery for multi-million-pound fees on major transport and civil infrastructure projects across the UK, and on occasion internationally. You will be involved in planning the design stage of infrastructure works as well as be responsible for the production and delivery of reliable design solutions. As an integral and senior member of the Heavy Civil Infrastructure team, you’ll contribute to the business and team’s professional development.

Responsibilities will include:

• Lead profitable projects that deliver success for our clients and communities.
• Develop a collaborative delivery approach across project teams, supply chain, partners, and client teams.
• Deliver to budget, programme, and quality.
• Enhance client satisfaction.
• Undertake Project Reviews to foster continuous improvement and sharing lessons across projects.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for:

• Championing industry leading techniques to improve safety and customer service to deliver the goals of our clients and their customers.
• Delivery of projects to time, cost, and quality.
• Fostering innovation in the delivery of design, digital and technical excellence.
• Prompt billing and payment.
• Monthly reporting on scheme progress.
• Delivering client requirements and customer satisfaction.

Essential academic, professional qualifications and experience:

• Extensive experience of delivering major design projects in an overall project or design manager role (Design fees of greater than £5m), especially under a Design & Build contract.
• Project, financial, programme and resource management skills.
• Management of large project teams (over 100 people).
• Ability to deliver to demanding schedules and targets.
• Proven business development and marketing skills with demonstrable experience of writing winning proposals.
• Excellent communication skills to be able to communicate targets, and priorities to staff, clients and partners.
• BEng / BSc civil engineering (or related subject).
• Chartered Engineer (or equivalent).
• Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (or equivalent).

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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• Enhanced family and carers leave: Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• 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.