Senior Project Manager

Mott MacDonald

Position location: Dublin, Ireland
Recruiter contact: Danielle Judd

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. 

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

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

Overview of role

The Advisory and Programme Delivery division (APD) delivers consultancy services to projects ranging in scale and complexity from £million’s to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting, education and healthcare management.
 
We are looking for people who can demonstrate the following: 

•  Take ownership of and responsibility for the successful delivery of your project
• Leads teams of professionals delivering major projects or portfolios of smaller projects.
• Responsible for managing senior level customer relationships.
• Deliver complex technical projects within a highly regulated industry,
• Preparing and maintaining schedules, including dependencies and resources,
• Identifying and monitoring project risks and opportunities,
• Quality management processes for project activities and outputs,
• Managing stakeholders, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests,
• Establishing and maintaining project governance reviews,
• Developing and managing teams,
• Managing suppliers.

What you will contribute to the team;

• Relevant project management and delivery experience;
• Demonstrable knowledge and application of project management methodologies;
• Strong financial awareness, commercial acumen and analytical skills
• Comfortable working as a consultant within a client environment;
• Relationship building skills –ability to build strong relationships with clients, teams and stakeholders as well as an ability to build and maintain networks of business contacts;
• Strong stakeholder management experience;
• Excellent oral and written communication and organisation skills,
• Strong analytical thinking and research skills,
• Well-developed planning and organisational skills and ability to continue to completion existing projects and initiatives;
• Essential soft skills include self-motivation; taking initiative; leadership, adaptability and flexibility; effective listening, collaboration; influence and persuasion; and insightfulness,
• Computer literacy in Microsoft applications.
• Be responsible for the project programme. Work with multidisciplinary delivery teams to update the programme as required. 

Essential

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent in a relevant subject
• APM PMQ level qualified or equivalent Member of the Association for Project Management (MAPM).
• Proven track record of delivering Infastructure projects in transmission, renewables, distribution and/or generation sector.
• Good leadership and people management skills and an ability to build and develop high performing teams.
• Strong financial awareness, commercial acumen and analytical skills.
• Flexibility and adaptability to respond rapidly to unexpected events, and an ability to develop creative solutions to problems Well-developed planning and organisational skills and ability to continue to completion existing projects and initiatives;

Desirable 

• Experience across all stages of the project lifecycle.
• Interconnection/interconnector
• Excellent IT skills particularly MS Excel/Word/Project and PowerPoint.
• Ability to produce and review technical reports for project teams and clients, attention to detail is paramount.

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.   

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 have the opportunity to contribute. 

If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like us to make reasonable adjustments 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 assist.

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. 

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Flexible working
• Pension matched up to 7% of base salary
• Competitive annual leave
• An annual professional institution subscription
• Life insurance
• Income continuance
• Enhanced Paternity leave
• Annual company performance bonus scheme – Subject to company performance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Travel TaxSaver tickets
• Commitment to Continuing Professional Development – we are accredited by Engineers Ireland
• Mentoring and support for career development and progression