Project Principal

2 months ago

South West, United Kingdom Mott MacDonald Full time

This is an opportunity for an experienced, qualified and enthusiastic Project Management professional to join our Rail Project Management team. This opportunity is within our market leading team of more than 30 staff dedicated to effective delivery of Rail projects and forming part of a company-wide technical practice.

The Project Principal provides oversight, independent of the project team, for single or multiple projects, ensuring that the project is delivered successfully for the client and for Mott MacDonald.

Successful technical delivery and maintenance of trust between Client and the company is key to commercial and financial success for Mott MacDonald. The Project Principal oversees one or several Project Managers, challenging PMs and Mott MacDonald management as well as mentoring and coaching as necessary with the prime aim of ensuring the projects are able to deliver a successful outcome.

Key Accountabilities:
Project Principals are ultimately accountable for the successful completion of all projects under their oversight. Success means commercial, financial, technical success and realisation of client benefits agreed at WIN stage. Broken down it means:

- Accountable for commercial success. This means ensuring contract terms and risk mitigations from WIN are put into practice; that terms and risk are assessed and understood during WIN to ensure project is feasible.
- Accountable for financial success. This means challenging and supporting the PM to manage inputs from discipline teams to deliver commitments, guiding the PM to identify and manage change, and supporting when interventions from P&L owners could reduce the ability to deliver.
- Accountable for client satisfaction. This means supporting the PM to ensure that suitably skilled staff are made available by the Resourcing Managers and that action is taken to resolve significant relationship or issues of trust. It means managing the tension between internal and external needs.
- Ultimately accountable for Health, Safety and Welfare. This means working to Mott MacDonald’s global standards and reviewing Health Safety and Welfare alongside project commercials and risk.
- Actively support business development activity and lead teams to deliver winning bid proposals

Key role requirements include:

- Strong problem-solving capabilities that use our services to deliver efficient outcomes for public, regulated and private sector clients.
- Strong client-centric behaviours and a desire to develop opportunities with clients.
- Keep up to date with market developments, anticipate market changes and assess opportunities to expand our services.
- Practical experience to be able to participate in or lead meetings with senior stakeholders.
- Existing project management experience along with formal qualifications and certifications.
- Experience in working in rail, though broad experience in the transportation sector experience would also be considered.
- Full membership of APM (MAPM) or Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) status is desirable

**Job Profile**

**About the business unit**
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.
- ** How to apply**

Mott MacDonald is Work180 accredited - which means we actively support and encourage women to join our work force

Benefits we offer:

- Pension matched up to 7%
- Life insurance
- An annual professional institution subscription
- Continuous development opportunities - because we want you to thrive
- Agile/flexible working - because life isn’t 9-5
- Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies - for parents and care givers
- Annual company performance bonus scheme - Subject to company performance
- Flexible benefits that suit you, including cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans.
- The opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our social outcomes

**Other Information**

**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 encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they have the opportunity to contribute.-
**Agile working**
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments. We embrace agility, flexibility and trust.**More about Mott MacDonald**
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