Mott Macdonald
A global engineering, management, and development consultancy delivering innovative solutions.
Project Manager
Lead water/environment project delivery, handling risk, commercial, schedule, and stakeholder links.
Job Highlights
About the Role
As a Project Manager you will lead projects through appraisal, planning, detailed design, construction and delivery, ensuring compliance with client and Mott MacDonald processes for project management, health and safety, commercial, risk, value and budgeting. • Manage project risk and opportunities, identifying and mitigating potential issues. • Ensure commercial objectives are met and deliver required reporting on schedule. • Maintain excellent communication with the client and wider programme team. • Oversee and update the project programme with multidisciplinary teams, ensuring efficient close‑out. • Lead the delivery team and coordinate key stakeholders. • Provide private medical insurance for UK colleagues. • Provide access to Peppy menopause support for UK colleagues. • Deliver a comprehensive wellbeing program for employees and their families. • Provide an income protection scheme with long‑term illness and injury support. • Offer employee saving schemes and discounts from high‑street retailers. • Supply a primary annual professional institution subscription. • Enable access to Advanced Employee Networks supporting LGBTQ+, gender, race, disability, and parents/carers communities. • Facilitate participation in community social outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
- ▸risk management
- ▸commercial reporting
- ▸client communication
- ▸program scheduling
- ▸team leadership
- ▸project delivery
What You Bring
Candidates must hold an engineering or project management degree, be a full member or working towards membership of a relevant chartered body, and possess experience delivering high‑risk, high‑value projects in the water and environment sector, including familiarity with NEC contracts and CDM regulations. Desirable qualifications include NEC ECC PM accreditation and full lifecycle project experience. Mott MacDonald does not sponsor Skilled Worker visas following recent UK government changes; candidates must be eligible for alternative immigration routes that do not require sponsorship. • Hold a degree in engineering or project management. • Be a full member or working towards membership of a relevant chartered body (e.g., MAPM, ChPP, MCIWEM, MICE, MCIOB, MRICS). • Demonstrate project management experience on high‑risk, high‑value projects with strong stakeholder and risk management skills. • Have experience managing projects within the water and environment sector. • Possess practical knowledge of NEC contracts and their application. • Be familiar with CDM regulations. • Work a minimum of two days per week in the nominated office. • Exhibit excellent written and oral communication and promote collaborative working relationships. • Desirable: NEC ECC PM Accreditation. • Desirable: Experience across the full project lifecycle. • Desirable: Experience in the environment and water sector.
Requirements
- ▸engineering degree
- ▸chartered
- ▸nec
- ▸cdm
- ▸water sector
- ▸project management
Benefits
Support is available for applicants with disabilities or those needing adjustments during the recruitment process via [email protected]. Flexible, agile working arrangements are offered to help balance personal responsibilities with professional duties. A comprehensive benefits package includes health and wellbeing provisions, financial security measures, generous holiday entitlement, enhanced family and carers leave, continuous learning and development opportunities, and access to employee networks that support diverse communities. • Offer a health cash plan covering everyday health costs and treatments. • Allow salary‑flexible health benefits that can be extended to family members. • Match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%. • Offer life assurance up to 4× basic salary, with an option to increase to 6×. • Include flexible benefits such as increased life cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving, and will writing. • Share financial success through annual bonus schemes. • Grant 33‑35 days of holiday inclusive of public holidays, with buy/sell options; increase to a minimum of 35 days after five years of service. • Provide enhanced family leave: 26 weeks paid maternity/adoption, two weeks paid paternity/partner, and shared parental leave up to 24 weeks at full pay. • Allow up to five additional days for significant caring responsibilities, with two days paid. • Offer mentoring, formal training, and self‑development opportunities to enhance technical and soft skills.
Work Environment
Hybrid