Senior Project Manager - Aviation

Location/s: Singapore 
Recruiter contact: Shing Ying Low  
Hiring manager contact: Naida Suprapto 

About the department
 

The vision for our Digital Advisory portfolio is to “Empower lasting industry transformation”.  We enable clients to navigate complex challenges by combining industry leading technical domain knowledge, digital innovation, and consulting excellence with our network of collaborative partners. Our trusted advice ensures clients not only thrive, but remain agile, resilient, and in step in a volatile world. We remain pragmatic and outcomes-focused in shaping and implementing transformational change that delivers demonstrable social, economic, and environmental value.

As Senior Project Manager - Aviation, you will play a key role in growing our advisory portfolio by shaping, winning, and delivering new work, focusing on digital in Aviation and related domains. 
You will work on a range of projects, covering digital aspects across airport master planning, new airport developments, to aviation business transformation in Singapore and globally. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, your responsibilities will range from managing Digital Aviation projects, defining, and implementing best practice Design Management, developing Digital Delivery Strategies, through to developing Roadmaps and Schedules for implementation.  

A bit about the team 
You will work within the Aviation and Digital teams whilst collaborating with teams in the Transport and Building markets, both in Singapore and regionally. Some travel regionally may be anticipated.

What you will contribute to the team

• Provide high value consultancy to customers at the enterprise, programme, and project level.
• Leading the projects and team members, providing guidance and support.
• Develop and manage the project plan to ensure that the team delivers to time, cost and quality. 
• Manage the key project decisions required to drive the project forward, to meet Client and stakeholder expectations, influencing effectively.
• Manage project risks, issues and changes, negotiate assignment with responsible parties and hold stakeholders accountable
• Guide negotiations to obtain mutually beneficial outcomes and resolve conflicts with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain the Project Execution Plan setting out the project management approach for the project.
• Develop supporting management plan for key topics such as design, stakeholder and interface management, and put them into action. 
• Develop delivery strategies and roadmaps for projects and supporting schedules.
• Plan and co-ordinate the resources required to deliver the programme of work, collaborating with other disciplines as required.
• Ensure robust project governance, clear progress reporting and monitoring, engaging both internally and with the client, and the client’s senior management.
• Manage commercial success of the project, in accordance with the contract.

Candidate Specification
Essential

• Minimum 10 years of Aviation project delivery experience
• Degree qualified and chartered project manager or equivalent
• Experience in manging the design, implementation, and commissioning of mission critical systems at major international airports
• Experience of managing the delivery of IT Infrastructure and Operational Systems into construction programmes.
• Strong customer service and customer centre experience
• Good knowledge of budgeting, financial reporting, and resource allocation procedures
• PMO experience, including risk, opportunity, and issues management  
• Excellent analytical and organisational ability
• Ability to improve project/program delivery methods and coach the team
• Strong stakeholder management capability, covering a wide range of aviation stakeholders 
• Team player and culturally sensitive.
• Commercial and contract management

Desirable

• Knowledge of the latest trends across aviation, within aviation digital and more generally across digital and technology. 
• A strong customer-centric perspective that focuses on outcomes and whole-life value.
• Knowledge of the test and commissioning of aviation digital solutions and their integration.
• Strong communication skills (written, verbal and visual) carried through into project deliverables and proposals.  
• Demonstrable passion for digital and delivering social, environmental, and economic outcomes.

Behaviours / values

• Understanding and commitment to Mott MacDonald’s PRIDE values (Progress; Respect; Integrity; Drive; Excellence)
• A self-starter mentality with a desire to apply initiative and new ideas, comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-changing start-up environment.
• An open minded, confident, collaborative attitude; a strong sense of team spirit; vision driven.
• Ability to think strategically and laterally, bringing creativity to problem solving.
• Interest and passion for innovation and technology.

If you meet 80% or more of what we’re looking for, please still apply. We understand not everyone will meet all the requirements, but you might have skills we didn’t know we need.