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Senior Project Manager

Mott MacDonald
Sustainability/Environmental Consulting
Sustainability/Environmental Consulting
Negotiable
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Description

Location
Central London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
As a Senior Project Manager at Mott MacDonald, you will lead and manage complex projects or portfolios of projects focused on major water and environmental infrastructure schemes. This role offers the opportunity to shape the direction of our growing project management team in the South of England and contribute to nationally significant programmes benefiting communities across the UK. You will drive innovation in service delivery and become a trusted member of client teams, often working collaboratively with experts across Mott MacDonald and the wider industry.

Your responsibilities will include leading teams of professionals delivering major projects, managing senior-level customer relationships, monitoring contractor performance, and ensuring projects meet time, cost, quality, and environmental standards. You will oversee health, safety, and wellbeing on projects, support early-stage project development, and manage contract requirements through design, construction, and commissioning phases. Financial accountability, effective communication with supply chain and procurement, active stakeholder management, risk management, and programme control are key aspects of this role.

This position is part of Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery unit, which delivers project, programme, and commercial management services across multiple sectors including water, environment, defence, energy, transportation, and health. Our multidisciplinary teams work on projects ranging from several hundred thousand pounds to major programmes worth over £0.5bn, providing tailored solutions that address clients’ key challenges.

Requirements

Experience
- Proven track record of delivering projects in the construction industry within regulatory environments
- Experience in the water or environment sectors
- Strong financial awareness, commercial acumen, and analytical skills
- Proven experience managing NEC contracts or similar contract arrangements
- Delivery of key targets and objectives within available resources
- Experience of working in client organisations in lead delivery roles is advantageous
- Knowledge and experience of developing business cases including the five case model is desirable
- Experience working on flood risk management projects is a plus

About you
- Excellent leadership and people management skills with the ability to build and develop high performing teams
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills
- Flexibility and adaptability to respond rapidly to unexpected events and develop creative solutions
- Strong commitment to health, safety, and wellbeing management
- Ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary teams and manage stakeholder relationships effectively

Qualifications
- Degree or equivalent qualification in engineering or project management subject
- Relevant professional qualification with APM, PMI, or RICS
- Membership of a relevant chartered body (e.g., APM Chartered (ChPP), CIWEM, ICE, CIOB, RICS) or working towards chartership
- NEC Project Manager Accreditation (3 or 4) is desirable but not essential

Expiry date: 03/09/2025
Senior Project Manager
Company:
Mott MacDonald
Salary:
Negotiable
Job Type:
Job
Location:
Central London