Project Director ITS

Location/s: UK Wide
Recruiter contact: David McFall
Hiring manager contact: Mark Bell

Closing Date: 26/02/2025

About our team
We are Transport Mobility Solutions (TMS) Transport planners and modellers, highway design and asset specialists, technologists, and aviation and carbon consultants. We solve our clients' future transport problems to benefit their customers.

Our vision is to be recognised by the market, and our colleagues at Mott MacDonald, as renowned pioneers in our industry. To lead the way, as a connected centre of technical excellence, industry influence and innovation.

Our goals are:

•    Thriving culture - Inspire and encourage our people through leadership and development to live and breathe the TMS Way.
•    Delivering excellence - Known as a diverse network where people, energy and ideas come together to deliver excellence.
•    Partnering with our clients - Trusted by our clients to understand and deliver on their goals through commercial confidence and collaboration.

Responsibilities and activities

Key responsibilities include:
•    Delivering great work by being part of a team that encourages support and mentoring of more junior staff while providing information management direction and technical guidance to the wider department. 
  
•    Building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external clients, understanding their needs and providing tailored solutions and services.

•    Being a proactive participant in the ITS market, providing leadership and growth for TMS, consulting with industry colleagues and vendors to ensure Mott MacDonalds leading position in the market.

•    Capitalising on great people and great relationships taking every opportunity to enhance the Mott MacDonald brand and highlight our capabilities.  We want you to help develop our people's capability within the team, giving them the guidance, mentoring and support needed to become high-performing recognised consultants, and also help grow our talented team.

•    Developing and implementing strategic plans to help drive ITS discipline, programme, and project best practice for TMS and our clients.

Project activities include:

•    Position TMS’s ITS capability within internal and external markets, helping to secure new projects.
•    Manage utilisation of staff across the portfolio of ITS projects, recruiting to fill gaps in capability and capacity.
•    Manage and contribute to technical excellence of highways ITS projects.

Candidate Specification 

•    Leadership: A proven leader of ITS teams, with experience of technology and infrastructure projects.

•    Discipline best practice: Skilled at setting and driving ITS good practice across teams, whilst supporting the adoption of new ways of working.  Good knowledge of ITS technology standards, tools, and processes best practice.

•    Programme best practice: Good technical knowledge and expertise in designing and embedding technology into major infrastructure programmes and projects.

•    Commercial acumen: Strong commercial awareness, with knowledge of the contractual implications of ITS in project change control processes. 

•    Communication & collaboration: Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and experience of multi stakeholder engagement.

•    Consultative, analytical approach: Experience in needs-based solution design for internal and external clients, using strong business analysis and problem-solving skills.

Desirable

•    Sector: Experience of working in the transportation sector.

•    Digital and data:  Experience of working in a digital/data consultancy, delivering digital/data services to infrastructure clients.

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.