Mott Macdonald
A global engineering, management, and development consultancy delivering innovative solutions.
Senior Project Manager
Lead complex water infrastructure projects, managing risk, budget, and stakeholder relations
Job Highlights
About the Role
As a Senior Project Manager you will lead and manage complex water infrastructure projects in the Northwest of England. The role allows you to shape the growing project management team and contribute to nationally significant programmes. You will drive service‑delivery innovation and work collaboratively with clients and multidisciplinary experts across Mott MacDonald and the wider industry. • Manage project risk and opportunities, identifying, allocating and mitigating risks. • Accountable for commercial objectives, ensuring timely and standard reporting. • Deliver complex technical projects within a highly regulated industry. • Maintain excellent communication with client and programme team. • Responsibility for the project programme, updating it with multidisciplinary teams. • Ensure effective and efficient close‑out of all projects. • Control internal and external commercial aspects across contractual arrangements. • Accountable for project expenditure and out‑turn cost, adhering to governance and change control processes. • Facilitate effective collaboration and teamwork across internal and external resources. • Deliver targets within resource limits.
Key Responsibilities
- ▸risk management
- ▸technical delivery
- ▸programme management
- ▸cost control
- ▸contract management
- ▸client communication
What You Bring
Candidates should possess an engineering or project management degree, relevant professional qualifications such as APM or Prince2, and be members or aspiring members of a chartered professional body. They need extensive experience delivering complex, high‑value projects in regulated sectors and a proven ability to lead and develop teams. • Hold a degree in engineering or project management. • Possess a relevant professional qualification (APM or Prince2). • Full membership or working towards membership of a chartered body (MAPM, MCIWEM, MICE, etc.). • Ideally chartered or working towards chartership (ChPP). • Substantial experience managing high‑risk, high‑complexity, high‑value projects with strong stakeholder and risk management. • Proven track record managing projects in the Water and Environment sector. • Proven experience with NEC contracts or similar arrangements. • Strong leadership and people‑management skills to build high‑performing teams. • Self‑motivated, proactive, and initiative‑driven in time and task management. • Excellent communication, interpersonal and leadership skills. • Adept at pre‑empting problems and providing solutions. • Strong client and stakeholder relationship‑building skills. • Commercial awareness, creativity and critical thinking. • High commercial acumen and knowledge of planning and project controls. • Soft skills: initiative, leadership, adaptability, flexibility, listening, collaboration, influence, persuasion, insightfulness. • Proficient in project/programme management methods, software and tools. • Experience working in a client organisation in a lead delivery role (preferred). • Experience with CDM regulations (preferred).
Requirements
- ▸engineering degree
- ▸prince2
- ▸chartered
- ▸nec contracts
- ▸complex projects
- ▸leadership
Benefits
The benefits package includes pension matching up to 7%, life insurance, an annual professional subscription, continuous development opportunities, flexible working, enhanced parental leave, an annual bonus, flexible benefits such as buying or selling leave, wellbeing support, and access to employee networks for various communities. Additionally, employees can contribute to social outcomes through the company’s initiatives. • Pension matched up to 7%. • Life insurance. • Annual professional institution subscription. • Continuous development opportunities. • Agile/flexible working. • Enhanced parental leave and shared parental leave policies. • Annual bonus scheme. • Flexible benefits such as buying/selling annual leave, cycle to work, interest‑free season ticket loans. • Wellbeing support including Employer Assistance Scheme, wellbeing champions, and learning resources. • Access to Advanced Employee Networks for LGBTQ+, gender, race, ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
Work Environment
Hybrid