Description:
Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for its employees?
Mott MacDonald is currently seeking experienced engineers to join our growing renewable energy team. The role will include acting as Senior Project Manager in the delivery of Due Diligence assignments on large scale energy onshore and offshore wind projects working for a diverse range of clients on the Lenders side (LTA) and on M&A assignments (VDD and ADD).
As a Senior Project Manager, you will be expected to work hand-in-hand across Mott MacDonald's Group to form large project teams and deliver on our global projects. The role will also act as an internal expert for wind advisory projects to provide support and mentoring to less experienced staff in the delivery of project work.
Duties and responsibilities of the successful candidate will include, among others:
- Managing onshore and offshore wind advisory assignments including but not limited to lenders due diligence, acquisition due diligence and vendors due diligence of development, construction and operational wind projects.
- Communicating, coordinating and corresponding with clients for all the matters related to the assignments, acting as primary point of contact on behalf of Mott MacDonald.
- Lead and manage multi-disciplinary project teams working closely with other Mott MacDonald business teams to establish an internal ‘delivery’ network as needed.
- Manage and hold overall project delivery responsibility for projects ensuring budgets are delivered on time, to a high quality and on budget.
- Manage and actively identify all critical risks, issues and impacts of the project.
- At short notice, act upon and deliver ad-hoc engineering technical input into projects managed by other peers at various stages (from feasibility to preliminary and detailed design, construction and operational stages) without losing focus on major ongoing projects.
- Undertake or provide guidance on technical reviews of engineering design documentation prepared by third parties and report on findings.
- Undertake or provide guidance on technical reviews of construction and operations contracts including but not limited to PPA, EPC (or TSA+BOP) and O&M.
- Undertake or provide guidance on technical reviews of financial models with special emphasis on project lifetime assumptions and derived impacts on OPEX and performance degradation.
Candidate Specification
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering
- Be highly motivated, with a versatile personality and excellent interpersonal skills.
- Professional experience as an engineer with demonstrable experience of project management of wind projects, either as developer or consultant, such that in this client facing role you can guide technical discussions and make recommendations.
- The successful candidate will be required to produce and review/authorise technical reports for clients, so attention to detail is paramount.
- Able to collate, examine and act upon complex and diverse information from a variety of sources and give advice for project level decision making.
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely in English, both verbally and written and ability to explain technical issues to technical and non-technical colleagues, including clients.
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary engineering environment and on international projects, managing country and region-specific factors. The candidate shall be comfortable working with global teams located in different countries.
- Ability to manage people effectively to deliver required outputs in a timely manner
- Ability to influence and motivate stakeholders within a complex environment
- Ability to identify and match resources and skills to appropriate project roles
- Ability to guide and present at meetings
- Flexibility and willingness to travel internationally