Overview

Mott MacDonald are looking to hire a SeniorProject Controls Manager to join our existing team, providing an extensive range of purpose-driven PMO and Controls services to a wide range of clients across infrastructure and the built environment, including multiple global programmes.

Location: London, Reading, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool, Cumbria, Glasgow.

Recruiter contact: Sacha Kelly.

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.

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

Responsibilities

• Analytical skills to prepare and critically evaluate performance measures (including earned value) and trends across multiple datasets.
• Ability to focus on key issues, and drive mitigating or recovery actions across the project.
• Good people management and task facilitation skills.
• Experience of implementing robust project controls processes and toolsets in relevant industries.

Candidate Specification

Essential

• Due to the nature of this role, offers may be conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of security clearance.
• Experience working on large-scale infrastructure projects in sectors including, but not limited to water, transport, nuclear, defence.
• Educated to degree level and/or hold a project controls or management qualification (e.g. APMG Planning and Controls, EVM, PMQ, Prince2).
• Flexibility to travel and work in different sectors and clients.
• Risk management and reporting including the use of ARM.
• Knowledge and proficiency with Primavera (P6) or Microsoft Project and/or other planning and resourcing software; create and maintain project schedules that support and align with project requirements; reduce uncertainty on projects by adapting project methodology; project reporting including monitoring of KPIs; undertake project reviews; coordinate with other teams and have basic multi-disciplinary knowledge; comfortable working as a consultant within a client environment; strong stakeholder management experience.

Desirable

• Support project managers in maintaining effective and timely change management processes.
• Monitor and consolidate project plans.
• PMO experience.
• Knowledge or experience using PowerBI.

About the Business Unit

Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors. APD delivers services to projects up to £20bn, through disciplines including programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management.

Benefits

• Pension matched up to 7%
• Life insurance
• Annual professional institution subscription
• Continuous development opportunities
• Agile/flexible working
• Enhanced parental leave and shared parental leave policies
• Annual bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits including buy/sell annual leave, cycle to work, and interest-free season ticket loans
• Wellbeing support and access to learning resources
• Access to Employee Networks supporting LGBTQ+, race/ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities

Location(s): London, Reading, Moor Row, Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol, Glasgow, Manchester.

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Pattern: Full Time

Discipline: Project controls

Job Ref: 6613

Recruiter Contact: Sacha Kelly