Senior Project Manager

About the Opportunity

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 Division

The Water Utilities Division is Mott MacDonald’s centre of excellence for responding to the UK and Ireland's water and wastewater challenges. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations, preventing urban flooding, and improving the health of our rivers and coastal environments. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies to outline and detailed design. Together, we deliver best-in-class solutions to our clients while offering diverse and technically stimulating opportunities to our people.

Overview Of The Role

This role will focus on managing multidisciplinary water sector projects across the full project lifecycle, supporting delivery for major UK water company clients during AMP8. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering projects across areas such as water and wastewater treatment, storm overflows, and wider infrastructure programmes.

• Leading the delivery of projects to time, cost, and quality, ensuring compliance with business management systems
• Managing multidisciplinary teams, coordinating technical specialists across design and delivery stages
• Acting as a key client interface, building strong and trusted relationships
• Identify, manage, and mitigate project risks and opportunities
• Overseeing commercial and contractual aspects including forecasting, programme control, and reporting
• Supporting team development, providing guidance and mentoring to junior staff

This is a great opportunity to make a difference. You have the skills, now use them at a company that values a different perspective. Being employee-owned means we can choose our own direction and focus on what we believe is important for our clients, our people, and the communities where we work and live.

Candidate specification

Essential:

• Degree-qualified in engineering or a related discipline
• Demonstrable project management experience delivering infrastructure projects in the water sector
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams across project lifecycle stages
• Strong client-facing and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to manage programme, cost, and water and wastewater engineering risks to achieve successful project outcomes
• Proven ability to work independently and contribute to project success while guiding others

Desirable:

• Chartered Engineer or working towards chartership
• APM PMQ / MAPM or equivalent
• Experience in AMP frameworks or UK water utilities programmes
• Knowledge of CDM regulations and design management
• Experience contributing to bids and proposals

Benefits

• Financial wellbeing - including pension contributions, life assurance, income protection, and flexible benefits
• Employee Ownership - shared success and stake in the business
• Health and wellbeing - medical insurance, health cash plan, wellbeing support, and flexible health benefits
• Lifestyle - holiday entitlement, employee saving schemes, and discounts
• Enhanced family and carers leave - policies supporting family and carers
• Learning and development - opportunities for professional growth

About Company

At Mott MacDonald, we believe in agile working, equality, diversity, and inclusion, and accessibility. 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.