Facilities Management Advisor in London

Location/s: London, UK

About the business unit

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.

Overview of the role

We are looking for a Facilities Management Advisor to join our rapidly expanding Facilities Management consultancy service. This is a truly exciting opportunity to join an ambitious and growing FM Advisory team to help transform the built environment. The built environment is changing at a rapid pace, with greater digital innovation altering the understanding of building performance and the demand for greater efficiency and flexibility in how spaces are used. Estate owners and operators must balance higher standards with resource constraints over the life of assets.

Mott MacDonald’s FM consultants provide technical and commercial advice on these challenges to a wide range of public and private sector customers. We are experiencing strong demand for our expertise and are looking to grow the FM team to work on projects throughout the UK, Ireland and globally. With experience of the FM market, you will support our customers through all stages of the asset life cycle to achieve strategic objectives by adding long‑term value and optimising performance for end users. This includes experience in supporting operational FM management, advising on procurement projects, asset‑management improvement, CAFM utilisation, lifecycle modelling, FM cost analysis, benchmarking and business‑case support.

As an FM Advisor you will be responsible for delivering FM projects for clients at both strategic and operational levels. You will work in a multidisciplinary team where collaboration and networking are essential to problem‑solving and delivering successful customer solutions.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of asset and facilities management projects – possibly in a consultancy role.
• Technical, Excel and report‑writing skills, with the ability to use these skills to meet client needs.
• Good communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills.
• High levels of curiosity and commitment to continued professional development.
• Ability to prioritise and manage tasks.
• Analytical thinker with a problem‑solving attitude.
• Understanding of or interest in technology used in FM, and/or digital construction.
• Knowledge of PowerBI would be an advantage.
• Knowledge of Government Soft Landings.
• Degree‑level education.
• Experience writing specifications and performance mechanisms.
• Working knowledge of relevant ISO standards.
• Working towards or keen to attain a relevant professional qualification with RICS, CIOB, APM, or a similar discipline.
• Membership of IWFM, IAM or IHEEM.
• Experience and understanding of asset modelling and management systems.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. is not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This is a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in the future.

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.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage of the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us and we will discuss how we can support you.

Benefits

• Financial wellbeing: We match 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. 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. As an independently owned business, we share the financial success of the business with all colleagues in various ways, including annual bonus schemes.
• Employee Ownership: Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success. Employees have a stake and a voice in the business, giving them a direct connection to success through personal and group performance bonuses. As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long‑term impact and contribution. Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future. For senior roles you will have a direct pathway toward ownership from day one.
• Health and wellbeing: Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues. Health cash plan to support everyday health costs and treatments. Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues. Variety of wellbeing support available through a comprehensive wellbeing programme, including access for you and your family. Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
• 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. Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years of service. Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high‑street retailers.
• Enhanced family and carers leave: Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave. Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave, meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay. Up to five additional leave days for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
• 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: Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.