Overview

Senior Project Controls Manager – Mott MacDonald. Location options include Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Reading, Cumbria.

Recruiter contact: Sacha Kelly

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We deliver services across built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors. We are an employee-owned business focused on empowering our people and delivering value to clients and communities.

What you will contribute to the team

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Adopt and integrate project controls disciplines to support major infrastructure and built environment projects, including programme management, cost management, scheduling, reporting, and risk management.
• Create and maintain project schedules that align with project requirements and reduce uncertainty in delivery.
• Provide project reporting, monitor KPIs, undertake project reviews, and coordinate with multidisciplinary teams and client environments.

Required for the position

• Due to the nature of this role, offers may be conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of security clearance.
• Experience on large-scale infrastructure projects in sectors such as water, transport, nuclear, and 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 experience, including the use of ARM.
• Knowledge and proficiency with Primavera (P6) or Microsoft Project and/or other planning and resourcing software.
• Ability to create and maintain project schedules and project methodologies to reduce uncertainty.
• Strong project reporting and KPI monitoring; able to undertake project reviews.
• Ability to coordinate with other teams and have basic multi-disciplinary knowledge; comfortable working as a consultant in a client environment.
• Strong stakeholder management experience.

Preferred but not required

• PMO experience; support project managers in maintaining effective change management processes.
• Monitor and consolidate project plans; PowerBI knowledge or experience.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion are important to us. We are committed to fair employment practices and creating an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute.

Accessibility: If you need support to apply or attend an interview, contact reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com.

We offer flexible working arrangements and a range of benefits, including pension matched up to 7%, life insurance, annual professional subscription, development opportunities, agile/flexible working, enhanced parental leave, annual bonus, and wellbeing resources.

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