Project Manager, Program ​/ Project Manager, Operations Manager

Location/s: Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle; UK

Recruiter contact: Alice Roostan

Mott Mac Donald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee‑owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.

Whatever your ambition, Mott Mac Donald is where people come to be brilliant.

Mott Mac Donald’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.

Owning to the continued expansion within our built environment sector, we have an exciting opportunity for Project Managers to join our growing and diverse Buildings team to be based in one of our regional offices. Driving Social Outcomes is at the heart of every project we work on, and we specialise in working collaboratively with project stakeholders to maximise the potential for environmental, social and economic benefits to positively improve the communities in which we live, work and play.

As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for supporting Project Delivery through the RIBA Stages acting as the integrator of multidiscipline teams, working on a variety of projects across a diverse client base including Central Government, Local Authority, and the Private Sector. Some of our current clients include Ministry of Justice, Home Office, Homes England, MHCLG and TFL Places for London.

• Advising the client to help them define the strategic brief, including goals and objectives of the project
• Supporting the client to establish and procure the project team
• Defining the project success factors including time, cost, quality, environmental, and social outcomes
• Defining and agreeing project governance structure aligned to client and legislative requirements
• Producing a detailed project execution plan that outlines how the project will be managed
• Establishing reporting requirements and production of progress reports
• Leading and acting as an integrator of multidiscipline services at all stages of the project life cycle
• Establishing and managing the change control process
• Monitoring and advising upon project performance against success indicators
• Implementing performance management techniques, including the use of KPIs to improve project performance
• Establishing a communication strategy and information management plan and implementing this across the project, managing the interface between all parties and the client

In addition to supporting Project Management services for our clients you will be responsible for managing our commissions internally and work with our Account Leaders to position and win new work.