Programme Lead - Environmental

About the Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a permanent Programme Lead who will manage senior direct reports, demonstrate effective leadership, ensure excellence in delivery, and champion a continuous‑improvement culture. • Manage coordination and delivery of a major programme, providing strategic direction and aligning with vision and objectives. • Define and implement the programme delivery environment, covering people, organisation, processes, information, and technology. • Assemble the right project team with appropriate skills, experience, technical competency, and external specialists as needed. • Optimize resources and improve performance from the bid baseline by monitoring, reviewing, and evaluating activities, systems, and methodologies. • Act as the public face of the programme, chair executive steering group meetings and engage external stakeholders. • Maintain exceptional standards for safety, quality, cost, sustainability, governance, risk, stakeholder management, and compliance. • Oversee development and maintenance of programme documentation, including processes, procedures, plans, reports, registers, and lessons learned. • Foster a high‑performing, inclusive team environment that encourages contribution and recognition. • Communicate the wider business strategy to the programme team and promote related initiatives. • Ensure commercial and ethical viability of operations, influencing business objectives and meeting legislative compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• ▸programme management
• ▸resource optimisation
• ▸stakeholder engagement
• ▸compliance management
• ▸document control
• ▸team assembly

What You Bring

Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project and redefine the boundaries of ambition. Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey. • Proven leadership in planning and delivering major habitat relocation and land clearance programmes. • Strong experience working with the Environment Agency, environmental stakeholders, and DCO processes. • Extensive infrastructure sector experience establishing programme teams and delivering complex programmes across all phases. • Professional qualification with strong market knowledge and ability to lead large multidisciplinary teams.

Requirements

• ▸leadership
• ▸habitat relocation
• ▸environment agency
• ▸dco
• ▸infrastructure
• ▸professional qualification

Benefits

Mace is an inclusive employer welcoming candidates from diverse backgrounds and encourages applications even if all criteria are not met. The company is open to part‑time, flexible, and hybrid working arrangements where suitable.

Work Environment

Hybrid