Digital Change Lead

Birmingham, United Kingdom / Bristol, United Kingdom / Croydon, United Kingdom / Liverpool, United Kingdom / London, United Kingdom / Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom / Southampton, United Kingdom

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.

About the business unit: We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

Culture: We have a collegiate and collaborative culture which values equality and diversity, and we take proactive steps to create an inclusive workplace.

Benefits: Financial wellbeing, Employee Ownership, Health and wellbeing, Lifestyle, Enhanced family and carers leave, Learning and development, Networks, communities, and social outcomes.