Senior Project Manager

Edinburgh, United Kingdom / Glasgow, United Kingdom

Country: United Kingdom

Contract type: Permanent

Work pattern: Full Time

Market: Defence and security

Project programme and commercial management

Location/s: Edinburgh or Glasgow, UK
Relocation supported: Not supported, but internal applications are welcome
Recruiter contact: Danielle Judd
Hiring manager contact: Becky Penn

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 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 MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

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 support a wide range of clients including the UK Ministry of Defence, NATO, and international partners. Our work spans complex infrastructure upgrades, strategic asset management, and carbon reduction initiatives across land, air, maritime, and nuclear domains. Recent projects include the modernisation of submarine facilities at Devonport and Clyde, infrastructure delivery for the US Visiting Forces (USVF) at RAF Lakenheath, and support for the AUKUS submarine partnership, as well as defence infrastructure across the UK.

In the energy sector, our expertise covers nuclear, renewables, hydro, thermal, and electricity and gas. We provide services to a global customer base, supporting the delivery of major capital projects and the transition to low-carbon generation. Our teams are helping shape the future of energy through innovative solutions that promote sustainability, resilience, and energy security.

Overview of the role Owing to the expansion of our defence business, we have exciting opportunities for project management professionals to join our fast-growing team in the UK. This is a unique opportunity to be involved in some of the most complex and challenging projects in the UK today. Within the Mott MacDonald family, we are looking to attract the finest talent to be part of this journey as we mobilise for a number of key opportunities across a broad portfolio of defence programmes within the infrastructure and equipment domains. All of the programmes are long-term opportunities allowing you to grow and develop your career throughout.

We are seeking a Senior Project Manager who demonstrates a passion to work collaboratively with our client teams to deliver their complex projects to time, cost, and quality with a commitment to safety.

The role will provide the opportunity to work on strategically important defence infrastructure and equipment projects working with UK defence agencies, defence primes, NATO, and the US Department of Defence.

You will have opportunities to work on some of the UK's largest Defence projects, working with key clients and with experts from across Mott MacDonald and the industry. We are passionate about collaborating to deliver high-quality solutions with a focus on sustainability, social value, and technical/infrastructure excellence.

Responsibilities and Requirements

• Lead the safe and successful delivery of projects to agreed time, cost, and quality parameters
• Lead the development and delivery of business cases
• Preparation and maintenance of schedules, including dependencies and resources
• Identifying and monitoring project risks and opportunities
• Ensure quality management processes for project activities and outputs
• Manage senior stakeholder relationships
• Lead project governance reviews
• Provide leadership and direction across all commercial, procurement, and general project control functions, providing the necessary project management input to deliver projects within the agreed project parameters
• Successful administration of the NEC suite of contracts (or similar) for professional and contractor commissions as dictated by the projects, addressing performance to ensure contractually successful outcomes
• Liaise with the projects health, safety and wellbeing representative, acting on advice provided to ensure that project / contractor CDM and Health and Safety compliance matters are satisfactorily discharged and/or adhered to
• Contribute to the business growth of the organisation
• Experience working on large defence infrastructure (or equipment) projects, or equivalent across other sectors
• Significant project management expertise across a range of disciplines, contract/procurement routes, and market sectors
• Hold APM Chartered Project Professional status, or equivalent Chartership
• Full membership of the APM
• Hold NEC accreditation (3 or 4)
• Line management or team leader experience
• Operate with strong commercial acumen and knowledge of planning and project controls
• Ability to operate both autonomously and as a part of a larger team
• Expert communication skills including writing reports and presenting
• Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships with clients, stakeholders, colleagues, and the supply chain
• Ability to demonstrate a flexible approach to work

Please be advised that offers for this role are 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 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.

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 offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

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 and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Benefits Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level . click apply for full job details