Energy Transformation Project Lead
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.
The Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across a number of sectors including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation and transmission & distribution networks. Together we provide integrated engineering and project management services across the project lifecycle – from concept and design, to construction and operations, to decommissioning or repowering and life extension. Together with our clients, we’re helping to deliver the energy transition globally.
- Bringing their own gravitas and thought leadership to enhance our profile with clients and stakeholders.
- Being able to lead and successfully deliver novel projects which require combining different areas of subject expertise into a single co-ordinated offer
- Working constructively with key commercial partners who bring complementary skill sets
- Supporting the business in closing deals and acting as ‘Tiger Team’ resources to ensure that novel projects are set up to succeed.
- Key Performance Indicators:
- Experience of how to work with multiple stakeholders and understand their needs and drivers
- Experience of managing complex service and/or consulting assignments
- Demonstrable track record in energy projects related to the subject area including energy transition, security, and net zero targets
- Experience and confidence working with senior managers in client organisations
- Ability to work with a client to co-create a scope of work and secure their buy-in
- Ability to work with colleagues internally and bring them along – work as a team player and build senior support internally where needed
- Ability to achieve outcomes through influencing others
- Personal resilience, ability to manage ambiguity, setbacks, and persist in the face of challenges
- Degree qualified in an engineering discipline, in particular Electrical Engineering with chartership from relevant technical body
- Strong strategic understanding of Energy Transformation agenda
- Experience of pulling together complex public/private funded projects, working with government stakeholders and businesses at senior level
- Ability to communicate outside the engineering profession with multiple stakeholders (e.g., ability to work at Board level with clients and their stakeholders)
- Sharp analytical and report writing skills
- Ability to be client led in developing novel business arrangements with Mott MacDonald (not just being able to respond to RfPs) – putting us on a footing with needs-based selling
- Ability to work in an organisational setup where you need to lead through influence rather than being directive
- Self-motivated and diligent, with an ability to work to tight deadlines, on simultaneous assignments
- Ability to facilitate and mentor others in the business to help achieve their outcomes
- Prepared to travel, sometimes at short notice, as required by projects and/or new business opportunities
- Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
- Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
- Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
- A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
- Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
- We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
- Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
- Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
- Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
- As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
- A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
- Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
- Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
- Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
- Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
- Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
- Primary annual professional institution subscription.
- A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.
- Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
- Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.