Senior Technical Project Manager in Edinburgh

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 division

The Water Consultancy Division is Mott MacDonald’s centre of excellence for responding to water and wastewater challenges, offering fantastic opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations and protecting our environment. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies, through outline and detailed design, to construction support and site supervision.

Overview of the role

After recent major water project successes, we have growing opportunities for technical project managers with an engineering or technical background across our UK offices within our multidisciplinary Water Consultancy Division. We work on a wide range of water sector projects including but not limited to:

• Water treatment
• Water distribution and storage
• Storm overflow
• Desalination
• Irrigation
• Hydropower
• Flood risk
• River and catchment management
• SuDS

We cover all phases of the project lifecycle from feasibility studies, outline design and consenting, through to detailed design, construction support, and commissioning to handover. We provide specialist technical expertise across our global business, offering fantastic opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work. Our clients include UK water companies, major contractors, governmental organisations and private companies in the UK and overseas. You will have the opportunity to work in partnership with clients and contractors, building strong relationships.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• You will manage multi-disciplinary water projects across the full project lifecycle.
• Lead the delivery of projects to time, cost, and quality, ensuring compliance with business management systems.
• Manage multidisciplinary teams, coordinating technical specialists across design and delivery stages.
• Act as a key client interface, building strong and trusted relationships.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate project risks and opportunities.
• Oversee commercial and contractual aspects including forecasting, programme control, and reporting.
• Support team development, providing guidance and mentoring to junior staff.

You will grow and develop your career within a dedicated project delivery team at the centre of our water major projects capability in the UK.

Candidate specification

Essential:

• Degree-qualified in engineering or a related discipline.
• Chartered Engineer and membership of a relevant institution (e.g. ICE, IMechE).
• Demonstrable project management experience delivering infrastructure projects, ideally in the water sector.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams across project lifecycle stages.
• Strong client-facing and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage programme, cost, and engineering risks to achieve successful project outcomes.
• Proven ability to work independently and contribute to project success while guiding others.
• Excellent communication skills, including writing reports and presenting.
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with clients, stakeholders and colleagues.
• Understanding of the importance of prioritising health, safety, and environmental issues.
• Strong IT and digital capability.
• Solid commercial acumen and experience of project planning and controls.

Desirable:

• APM qualifications or equivalent.
• NEC experience.
• Knowledge of CDM regulations and design management.
• Design & Build / Contractor-led design experience.
• Project scheduling expertise, including working knowledge of MS Project or P6.
• Bid management.

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.

AI Usage

At Mott MacDonald, we see the value AI can bring, but we take a people-first approach to hiring. While AI tools can help candidates prepare and build confidence, every application and hiring decision is reviewed by our recruitment and hiring teams. We encourage the responsible use of AI while ensuring we get to know the real person behind the application.

Accessibility

We want you to feel supported and able to perform at your best throughout our recruitment process. If there is anything we can do to make applying or interviewing with us more accessible, please contact us and we'll be happy to discuss how we can help.

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 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 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.
• 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.

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