Consultant / Senior Consultant

Job Description

Location: London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds
Relocation supported: Not supported
Recruiter contact: Madeleine Phillips

Mott MacDonald

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
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.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

Are you an Asset Management professional, with experience in Rail and broader transport systems?

As an Asset Management Consultant you will lead the delivery of advisory projects, helping to manage concurrent priorities across the team, helping to support, manage, and direct more junior staff, whilst providing both leadership and technical guidance. Providing end-to-end trusted advice to support to our clients, including in areas such as: asset management investment planning, asset management strategies, risk management, information management, reliability centred maintenance and data analytics. You will play a vital role in growing the business, connecting with clients and colleagues alike to create opportunities.

A bit about the team
The vision for our Strategic Advisory portfolio is to Empower lasting industry transformation. We enable clients to navigate complex challenges by combining industry leading technical domain knowledge, digital innovation and consulting excellence with our network of collaborative partners. Our trusted advice ensures clients not only thrive, but remain agile, resilient, and in step in a volatile world. We remain pragmatic and outcomes-focused in shaping and implementing transformational change that delivers demonstrable social, economic and environmental value.”

Your contribution;
We are looking for Asset Management consultants with Rail Infrastructure or Rail Engineering experience, and who are passionate about delivering great outcomes for infrastructure owners and operators.

You will be part of our entrepreneurial and growing team, providing industry-leading, award-winning consulting services. Together with our clients, we support the creation of asset management capability to enable delivery of business objectives and optimise asset performance to deliver outcomes more effectively and allow our clients to make the most of the infrastructure assets they own.

Delivering great work
Day to day you will lead the delivery of advisory projects, helping to manage concurrent priorities across the team, helping to support, manage, and direct more junior staff, whilst providing both leadership and technical guidance. Providing end-to-end trusted advice to support to our clients, including in areas such as: asset management investment planning, asset management strategies, risk management, information management, reliability centred maintenance and data analytics. You will play a vital role in growing the business, connecting with clients and colleagues alike to create opportunities.

Capitalizing on great people and great relationships
As well as bringing an established network of contacts to the role that will help foster growth of the business, whilst also keeping abreast of industry best practice, we want you to be a proactive participant in the asset management market. It's important that you take every opportunity to enhance the Mott MacDonald brand and highlight our capabilities.

Candidate Specification:

We are looking for someone who has a proven track record of asset management in the Rail Sector, and is enthusiastic about providing quality service to clients across the broader Transport Sector. It's important that we find someone who has a demonstrable passion for delivering asset management excellence. A track record in successful project delivery, or significant elements of major project delivery and familiarity with the principles of lean and agile working, are also important.

We are a dynamic and growing team and are challenged to thinking big and scale up fast, which will require a high degree of agility and co-operation across the whole team. To thrive, you'll need strong analytical and leadership skills, be comfortable working with disruptive technologies and at times challenge current practice.

If this sounds like you, we'd also like you to have:

• Relevant delivery experience in management consultancy or asset management
• Good technical knowledge of a range of Asset Management capabilities. Strong understanding of tools and techniques
• Knowledge of Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), or Computerised Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS)
• Experience of developing asset management capabilities within organisations and maturing the organisational approach to asset management
• Recent experience in an Infrastructure or Engineering sector and ideally strategy -focused and/or operational roles
• Strong delivery skills and project management experience
• Eagerness to develop new skills and commit to further expanding your knowledge within different areas of asset management
• Ability to lead projects and manage a team of consultants
• Creative problem-solving skills and ability to diagnose issues and develop tailored solutions
• Institute of Asset Management diploma is desirable

The home office locations would ideally be London, however we would consider candidates able to be based at Birmingham, Manchester, Cambridge or Leeds. In addition periods of travel are expected to be able to support the UK (and on rare occasions international) business.

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

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.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• 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.

Financial wellbeing

• 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.

Lifestyle

• 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 and carers leave

• 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.

Learning and development

• 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.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• 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.

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.