Planning Consultant

Mott MacDonald

Position location: Glasgow, UK / Manchester, UK / Liverpool, UK / Bristol, UK / Birmingham, 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.

Overview of role
We are seeking a Planning Consultant who is an expert in Planning and aligning fields. This role requires a high degree of expertise and experience. You will collaborate closely with the Head of Planning, Senior Associate Planning Managers, Specialist Advisory Portfolio Leads, and Account Leads to establish and achieve the Unit’s strategic goals, while continuously enhancing our service and solution offering. 

What You Will Contribute to the Team 

• Work with internal and external stakeholders to clearly define all project elements. 

• Help clarify key milestones to outline what, when, and how activities will be organized to achieve desired outcomes. 

• Manage all aspects of project planning, including creating, updating, and monitoring plans and schedules. 

• Identify tasks, activities, interdependencies, and deliverables. 

• Collaborate with the project team to track and monitor progress against the plan throughout the project lifecycle. 

• Set a clear vision and standards, promoting best practice project planning standards, tools, and processes. 

• Use advanced planning knowledge to analyse and resolve risks and issues, and identify opportunities. 

• Provide guidance and expert advice to the Project Manager on planning approaches, tools, processes, and proportionality. 

• Lead the adoption of industry-standard best practices. 

Essential 

• Demonstrated ability to professionally develop, encourage, support, and lead a functional team while overseeing multiple projects and operational business workstreams concurrently. 

• Experience working in multiple project, programme, portfolio, and organisational environments. 

• Proven experience working within project controls teams on significant construction projects in highly regulated industries. 

• Experience in planning and coordinating functional resources for operational purposes. 

• Demonstrable experience and practical knowledge in NEC and JCT forms of contract. 

• Knowledge and application of contemporary industry innovations, including data, digital, and emergent artificial intelligence initiatives. 

• Proficiency in commonly used planning software, such as Primavera P6. 

• Please be advised that offers for this role may be conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance

Desirable 

• NEC accreditation. 

• Chartered status with a relevant recognized professional body, such as ChPP, MCIOB, MRICS. 

• Experience in leading and supporting effective business development activities. 

• Degree or equivalent 

• Membership of the APM, CIOB or RICS, or actively working towards membership

• Project management expertise, from the early stages of the project lifecycle, through to procurement and delivery

• Experience of working for / with Client organisations would be an advantage

• Experience in administering contracts, Strong client and stakeholder relationship building skills

• Effective communication, with clients, project team and business manager

• High degree of commercial acumen and knowledge of planning and project controls

• Ability to create an enjoyable and fulfilling work environment 

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. 

Social Infrastructure

Our Social Infrastructure portfolio is primarily a UK based business working in key sectors of education, public health and social care. Our work stretches from running training courses attended by individual teachers through to managing the £19m Adoption Support Fund on behalf of the government. 

We support local authorities, central government organisations, and health and social care providers improve service quality, meet increasing demand, and deliver better outcomes for communities. 

Our work stretches from running training courses for individual teachers, through to managing the Government’s £19m Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF). 

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:

• 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

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.