Senior Project Manager - Detail Design

Overview

Senior Project Manager - Detail Design at Mott MacDonald

Location: Brighton, Croydon, Leicester (UK) or Genoa (IT). Recruiter contact: Maria Cervantes.

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 industries delivering work that defines our future and has a societal impact. As a proudly employee-owned business, we invest in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.

About The Business Unit: The Energy unit provides services globally across sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation, and transmission & distribution. We deliver integrated engineering and project management across the project lifecycle, from concept and design to construction, operations, decommissioning or repowering and life extension, supporting the energy transition globally.

Overview Of The Role

The Energy Transition team is looking for multiple Project Managers to lead major multidisciplinary FEED and Detailed Design projects in the UK and Europe. You will contribute to new and existing projects, and help improve our project management processes, driving delivery excellence and efficiency.

The primary responsibility is to lead the delivery of multi-disciplinary design projects including civils, process, electrical, mechanical protection and control and secondary design disciplines.

Key Responsibilities And Duties

• Deliver Project Management for complex Energy projects such as OCGT and CCGT projects at feasibility, FEED and detailed design phases
• Deliver the project scope to time, quality, and cost
• Build and manage relationships with senior client representatives and internal stakeholders
• Establish effective communications across the project delivery team
• Lead problem solving and decision making
• Control internal and external commercial aspects of the project under the contract
• Manage risk to the business and to the client
• Work concurrently on several projects to meet tight deadlines

Candidate Specification

Essential

• Relevant engineering or management degree or relevant successful experience in project management of energy sector projects
• Proven delivery of multidisciplinary design projects
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Collaborative skills to work with cross-functional teams potentially located in different countries

Desirable

• Experience within the Energy sector
• Experience across all stages of the project lifecycle
• Relevant PM qualifications (e.g., PMQ, PMP, Prince 2)

Other Information

UK Immigration: Mott MacDonald Ltd. is not currently offering sponsorship to Skilled Worker visa route candidates in the UK. We welcome applications from candidates eligible for alternative immigration routes that do not require sponsorship.

Agile working: We offer a hybrid working policy to support well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion: We promote fair employment practices and an inclusive environment where everyone can contribute. Accessibility: contact for recruitment process support.

Benefits

• Health and wellbeing: private medical insurance, health cash plan, wellbeing program, and salary flex benefits for health options.
• Financial wellbeing: pension contributions matching, life assurance, income protection, and flexible benefits.
• Lifestyle: generous holiday allowance, saving schemes and discounts.
• Enhanced family and carers leave: maternity, adoption, paternity/partner leave, and shared parental leave.
• Learning and development: professional subscription and opportunities for skill development.
• Networks and social outcomes: employee networks and community initiatives.

Location(s)

Croydon, Brighton, Genova, Leicester (UK/IT).

Contract Type

Permanent

Work Pattern

Full Time

Job Function

• Project Management and Information Technology
• Industries: Civil Engineering