Project Managers and Assistant Project Managers

Relocation supported: Hiring manager contact: Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.
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The Buildings Unit (BLD) has a major presence in Mott MacDonald's regional offices throughout the UK and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross-sector skills across five key Sectors; Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation and Water. We also provide local services to customers and technical leadership to the rest of the Group in these sectors. 
Having secured a number of long-term projects across the Devon and Cornwall area, we are looking for talented individuals who can demonstrate the following:
Experience of delivering large projects in either a defence or construction environment
Successful administration of the NEC suite of contracts (or similar) for professional services and contractor commissions as dictated by the projects, addressing performance to ensure contractually successful outcomes
Management of multi-disciplinary teams
Management of project risks and issues including generation and maintenance of risk registers and risk reviews
Ensure quality management processes for project activities and output
Identifying and monitoring project risks and opportunities
Contribute to project governance reviews
Management across all commercial, procurement and general project control functions
Liaise with the project’s health, safety and wellbeing representative, acting on advice provided to ensure that project / contractor CDM and Health and Safety compliance matters are satisfactorily discharged and/or adhered to
Experience of delivering large projects in either a defence or construction environment
Confident in managing contractors with the ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with clients, stakeholders, colleagues and the supply chain
Operate with commercial acumen and knowledge of planning and project controls
Good communication skills including writing reports and presenting
Ability to demonstrate a flexible approach to work, this will involve 3-4 days per week at a live construction site in west Cornwall. Dependening upon an applicant's home location this may require 2-3 nights per week away and in these circumstances a nearby self-catering property would be provided for the successful candidate.
Project management expertise across a range of disciplines, contract types and procurement routes
Experienced in the management of multi-disciplinary teams and earned value analysis
Excellent IT Skills – Word/Excel/PowerPoint
Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.
UK Immigration
Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.
Agile working
We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.
Equality, diversity, and inclusion
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
Financial wellbeing
We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
Enhanced family and carers leave
Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
Learning and development
A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
Networks, communities, and social outcomes
Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes .
Contract Type: Permanent

Full Time
Discipline: Project programme and commercial management