Project Manager

Mott MacDonald

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. 

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

About the business unit

The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across several sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks. Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension. Together with our clients, we’re helping to deliver the energy transition globally.

About the Role

We are looking for a Project Manager to join our Energy Unit within the Nuclear, Civil, and Defence division. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work in a technically complex industry while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams and clients to achieve successful project outcomes and grow your career.

This is a technical project management role within the nuclear industry and involves delivering projects within a highly regulated environment, ensuring safety, quality, cost, and schedule meet or exceed the project baseline. This role requires strong communication skills, with a focus on effective project delivery, risk management, and adherence to safety and quality standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage quality, schedule, and cost for the project scope to meet the agreed baseline.
• Deliver and execute effective project strategies and plans using fundamental project delivery tools.
• Identify and manage project risks, ensuring appropriate mitigation strategies are in place.
• Ensure compliance with applicable safety, environmental, quality, and regulatory standards, prioritising nuclear safety at all times.
• Communicate team performance, risks, and issues to stakeholders accurately and on time.
• Monitor project design progress within agreed schedules, preparing earned value analysis and progress reports.
• Apply earned value principles, explain variances, and discuss mitigation or recovery plans with stakeholders.
• Ensure compliance with CDM regulations, legislation, and engineering standards.
• Participate in design reviews, HAZOPs, and provide project control and administrative support as required.
• Work closely with project and engineering managers, as well as other project disciplines.
• Build and maintain strong relationships both internally and externally.

Candidate specification

• Experience influencing engineering practices and project outcomes, ideally in highly regulated industries such as nuclear.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Relevant qualification, ideally in project management or engineering.
• Accredited with a recognised body (e.g., APM, RICS).

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.  
 
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.

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 can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working 

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

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.

Lifestyle

• 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

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• 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.

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