Assistant Project Manager

Location/s

London, Croydon, Manchester, Leeds; UK

Recruiter contact: Alice Roostan

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.

Whatever your ambition, Mott Mac Donald is where people come to be brilliant.

We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. From preparing the business case and advising on related issues – such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation – to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it. Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.

As an Assistant Project Manager you will support the Project Manager on delivery of 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.

You will operate within a team of 40 project management professionals, providing project controls and planning support to projects delivered by our multidiscipline technical teams. Infrastructure projects will typically range from small renewals (£100k) through to large (£3m+) D&B schemes involving stations, bridges, access-for-all upgrades, track, signalling, telecoms, electrification and plant, traction power, overhead catenary and tunnel systems. Rolling stock projects will typically involve either new fleet procurement or fleet life-extension.

Most of our projects will also include a systems engineering and assurance workstream.

We operate in a matrix structure, so you will have dual lines of reporting. Your discipline line of reporting will be via our Head of Discipline for Project Management. Each of your projects will have a Project Principal, within the client portfolio(s) to which you are assigned.

We play a role in many of the UK s largest and most complex rail projects. We offer a great environment in which you can develop your career as a project professional. Team members who deliver positive outcomes for our clients, our staff and the company, are able to progress to project principal roles (supervising the work of other project managers) or towards roles in our flagship projects in the UK, or elsewhere in the world.

Essential:

• Achieved APM Project Fundamentals Qualification (PFQ) or equivalent
• Working towards APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) or equivalent
• Bachelors degree qualification or equivalent in Project Management or a relevant engineering discipline, and working towards Chartership
• Project management expertise across a wide range of disciplines, contract / procurement routes and market sectors
• High degree of commercial acumen and knowledge of planning and project controls
• Ability to operate both autonomously and as a part of a larger team
• Excellent IT Skills – including Word / Excel / Power Point
• Strong communication skills including writing reports and presenting
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with clients, stakeholders, colleagues and the supply chain
• Ability to demonstrate a flexible approach to work
• Flexibility to travel to client sites and…