Assistant Project Manager

Mott MacDonald

Position location: Exeter, UK / Plymouth, UK / Bristol, UK 
Recruiter contact: Alice Roostan

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.

About the business unit
Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors.  
 
We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world-leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services. 
 
APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.   
 
Overview of role

Owning to the expansion of our defence business we have exciting opportunities for project management professionals to join our fast-growing team in the UK. This is a unique opportunity to be involved in some of the most complex and challenging projects in the UK today. Within the Mott MacDonald family we are looking to attract the finest talent to be part of this journey as we mobilise for a number of key opportunities across a broad portfolio of defence programmes within the infrastructure and equipment domains. All of the programmes are long term opportunities allowing you to grow and develop your career throughout. 

We are seeking an Assistant Project Manager who demonstrates a passion to work collaboratively with our client teams to deliver their complex projects to time, cost and quality with a commitment to safety.

The role will provide the opportunity to work on strategically important defence infrastructure and equipment projects working with UK defence agencies, defence primes, NATO and the US Department of Defence.
 
What will the role offer?

You will have opportunities to work on some of the UK’s largest Defence projects, working with key clients and with experts from across Mott MacDonald and the industry. We are passionate about collaborating to deliver high quality solutions with a focus on sustainability, social value and technical/infrastructure excellence.
 
Main duties

We are looking for talented individuals who can demonstrate the following:

• Successful delivery of projects to agreed time, cost and quality parameters
• Support the development and delivery of business cases
• Support the preparation and maintenance of schedules, including dependencies and resources
• Identifying and monitoring project risks and opportunities
• Support quality management processes for project activities and outputs
• Manage stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests
• Support project governance reviews
• 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
• Successful administration of the NEC suite of contracts (or similar) for professional and contractor commissions as dictated by the projects, addressing performance to ensure contractually successful outcomes
• Liaise with the projects 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

 
Candidate Specification

• Project management expertise across a range of disciplines, contract/procurement routes and market sectors 
• Hold APM Project Fundamentals Qualification (PFQ) and/or Project Management Qualification (PMQ) or Prince 2 equivalent
• Have experience working in projects within the infrastructure industry
• Have an understanding 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 – Word/Excel/PowerPoint
• 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.

Defence & energy 

With extensive experience in the global defence sector, Mott MacDonald’s advisory and programme delivery teams deliver projects ranging from complex infrastructure upgrades to carbon reduction initiatives.   

Our experience in energy ranges from nuclear, renewables, hydro, thermal to electricity and gas, providing services to a global customer base within the energy sector, supporting the delivery of major capital projects and the transition to low-carbon generation. 

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:

• 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 bonus scheme  
• Flexible benefits that suit you, including ability to buy/sell annual leave entitlement, cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans 
• Wellbeing support including access to an independent Employer Assistance Scheme, wellbeing champions and access to learning and support resources 
• Access to our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities 
• The opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our social outcomes

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