Strategic Project Planning Consultant – UK-wide in London

Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors. We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world‑leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services. APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through technical disciplines including programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.

We are keen to hear from Project Planning professionals of all levels who would like to be considered for future opportunities in the UK and Northern Ireland.

• Proven experience in Project Planning, with a strong track record in planning, monitoring, and controlling project delivery across various industries and contract types.
• Solid understanding of estimating, risk management, and cost control, with experience collaborating across project controls disciplines.
• Commercially aware and with excellent communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Well versed in the use of Oracle Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
• Experienced working within multidisciplinary teams on large scale complex infrastructure projects across a number of sectors including but not limited to Nuclear, Water, Transport, Buildings, Energy, Defence.

Please be advised offers for future roles may be 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 want you to perform your best at every stage in 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 talk to you about how we can support you.

Benefits include:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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. Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

Locations: Birmingham, GB; Edinburgh, GB; Leeds, GB; London, GB; Bristol, GB; Croydon, GB; Glasgow, GB; Cambridge, GB; Newcastle Upon Tyne, GB; Manchester, GB.

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Market: Various

Discipline: Planning and modelling

Job Ref: 13656