Senior / Principal Project Manager in Exeter

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. Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best.

As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

The Buildings Unit (BLD) has a major presence in Mott MacDonald’s regional offices throughout the UK and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross‑sector skills across five key sectors: advisory, built environment, energy, transportation, and water. We also provide local services to customers and technical leadership to the rest of the group in these sectors.

Having secured a number of long-term projects across the Devon and Cornwall area, we are looking for talented individuals who can demonstrate the following:

• Experience of leading the delivery of large projects in buildings, particularly in the defence sector
• Lead on the administration of the NEC suite of contracts (or similar) for professional services and contractor commissions as dictated by the projects, addressing performance to ensure contractually successful outcomes
• Management of multidisciplinary teams
• Preparation and maintenance of programmes and schedules, including dependencies and resources
• Management of project risks and issues including generation and maintenance of risk registers and risk reviews
• Identified and assessed the impact of change
• Ensured quality management processes for project activities and output

Key Responsibilities And Duties Include:

• Lead on the formation and management of stakeholder relationships
• Identifying and monitoring project risks and opportunities
• Contribute to project governance reviews
• Management of all commercial, procurement and general project control functions
• Liaise with the project’s health, safety and wellbeing representative, acting on advice provided to ensure that project and contractor CDM and Health and Safety compliance matters are satisfactorily discharged and adhered to

Candidate Specification:

• Experience of leading the delivery of large projects in infrastructure/construction
• Demonstrable experience working on the NEC suite of contracts (or similar)
• Able to establish and maintain good working relationships with clients, contractors, stakeholders, colleagues and the supply chain
• Operate with commercial acumen and knowledge of planning and project controls
• Good communication skills including writing reports and presenting
• Ability to demonstrate a flexible approach to work; this will involve one to two days per week at a live construction site in west Cornwall. Depending upon an applicant's home location this may require one to two nights per week away, and in these circumstances a nearby self-catering property would be provided for the successful candidate

• Defence sector experience
• Project management expertise across a range of disciplines, contract types and procurement routes
• Hold NEC ECC Project Manager Accreditation (NEC 3 or 4)
• APM PMQ or Full Member (MAPM) or equivalent
• Experienced in the management of multidisciplinary teams and earned value analysis
• Ability to operate both autonomously and as part of a larger team
• Excellent IT skills – Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.

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.
• 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.
• 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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