Expression of Interest: Project Planning

Overview

Location/s: UK-wide

Recruiter contact: Aoife Cullen

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across industries, delivering work that defines the future and has a societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. We offer opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, with a culture that aims to empower, include, and value everyone. This is a role within our Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit, which provides project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across sectors including built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care.

APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.

Responsibilities

• Provide project planning expertise for opportunities across the UK and Northern Ireland, contributing to planning, monitoring, and controlling project delivery across various industries and contract types.
• Collaborate across project controls disciplines including estimating, risk management, and cost control.
• Support commercially aware and effective communication with stakeholders; work within multidisciplinary teams on large-scale, complex infrastructure projects.
• Utilise industry-standard tools such as Oracle Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.

Ideal experience and qualifications

• Proven experience in Project Planning, with a strong track record in planning, monitoring, and controlling project delivery across various industries and contract types.
• Solid understanding of estimating, risk management, and cost control, with experience collaborating across project controls disciplines.
• Commercially aware and with excellent communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Well versed in the use of Oracle Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams on large-scale, complex infrastructure projects across sectors including Nuclear, Water, Transport, Buildings, Energy, Defence.

Please be advised offers for future roles may be conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of security clearance.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision reflects changes to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We welcome applications from candidates eligible for alternative immigration routes that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in the future.

Agile working

We support a hybrid working policy that enables you and your manager to choose how you work to meet client, team, and personal commitments. We offer flexibility, well-being support, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We place equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, promoting fair employment practices and equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression and strive to create an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute.

Accessibility

If you are disabled or need support to apply or attend an interview, please contact reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com to discuss how we can assist.

Benefits

We offer a range of benefits including:

• Financial wellbeing: Pension contributions matched between 4.5% and 7%; life assurance up to 4x basic salary (option to increase to 6x); income protection; flexible benefits.
• Employee ownership: An ownership culture with direct pathways to senior leadership and performance bonuses.
• Health and wellbeing: Private medical insurance, health cash plan, access to Peppy (menopause support), wellbeing programs, and flexible benefits that can extend to family.
• Lifestyle: Generous holiday allowances (33–35 days, with increases after service), savings schemes and retailer discounts.
• Enhanced family and carers leave: Maternity/adoption leave, shared parental leave, and caregiver leave provisions.
• Learning and development: Access to professional subscriptions and opportunities to develop technical and soft skills.
• Networks and communities: Access to employee networks and groups that support diversity and inclusion and community impact.

Location(s): Birmingham, Cambridge, Croydon, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh, London, Glasgow, Bristol, Leeds

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Market: Various

Discipline: Planning and modelling

Job Ref: 13656

Recruiter Contact: Aoife Cullen

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