Project Manager, Program ​/ Project Manager, Operations Manager

Mott Mac Donald

Position location:

Leeds, York, Newcastle and Sheffield
Recruiter contact:
Danielle Judd

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

Project Manager

Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for it’s employees? Mott Mac Donald is a global consultancy whose people do exactly that.

As a Project Manager you will manage your own projects or work streams on major infrastructure projects. This opportunity will enable you to support the development of this growing and diverse business whilst progressing your own career. The focus of this exciting new role and opportunity is to help build the growing business and to support our Clients by winning and delivering high quality project and programme management services that contribute to society and make the communities in which we live and work better.

A bit about the team

Our North Eastern transportation team is expanding, and we have multiple exciting opportunities for project and commercial managers. We are a vibrant team based across York, Leeds, Sheffield and Newcastle with an ambitious goal of doubling our size in 2025 to match our expanding portfolio. Our core team consists of professionally qualified and experienced Project/Programme Managers, Planners, Commercial Managers, and Quantity Surveyors.

We lead and deliver a broad range of exciting transportation projects and programmes through our integrated, full service, Project, Programme, and Commercial Management (PPCM). We deliver a one Mott Mac Donald solution by collaborating closely with our clients in the transportation sector and leveraging Mott Mac Donalds technical excellence in engineering, development, and management services.

We are seeking driven professionals with the right attitude to integrate both internally and externally, grow our team, represent Mott Mac Donald, and to deliver excellent service to our clients.

We operate in Aviation, Highways, Rail and Maritime. Our vision is to deliver major transportation projects as part of a global business and to establish our wide-ranging consultancy as ‘credible’ and ‘preferred’ for our existing and new clients.

Main duties:

• The successful management of the development, design stages, delivery and handover of (built environment and infrastructure) projects as instructed, ensuring:
  • Processes and procedures are applied, and any governance protocols followed
  • A project management plan is developed and maintained for each project
  • Projects are scoped in accordance with agreed project objectives,
  • Deliverables are clearly identified and executed,
  • Key parameters of cost, time and quality are achieved providing a coherent and realistic action plan against deficiencies,
  • Liaise with the projects H&S&W and CDM Representative, acting on advice provided to ensure that project / contractor CDM and Health and Safety compliance matters are satisfactorily discharged and/or adhered to,
  • Establish effective stakeholder and communication management processes and structures across the project, Client and stakeholder teams, undertaking stakeholder mapping and understanding the role of project influencers, developing strong working relationships where appropriate. Specifically consider all necessary actions in terms of liaison, process mapping and reporting with statutory and technical assurance bodies, mitigating potential delays and costs to project performance through timely submissions and consenting requirements,
  • Liaise and work across all commercial, procurement and general project control functions, providing the necessary project management input to deliver projects within the agreed project parameters,
  • Assess the necessary level of…