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About the Role
Mace Consult is seeking an experienced Associate Director - Project Management to offer strategic leadership for roads and highways within a significant infrastructure program in West London. This role involves providing senior project management and technical leadership to ensure transport strategies, modeling, and assessments are robust, evidence-based, and aligned with program, consenting, and stakeholder needs.
Responsibilities
- Manage PMO and project controls performance across assigned commissions.
- Implement effective controls frameworks, strategies, and methodologies.
- Build strong client and stakeholder relationships.
- Deliver performance reporting, reviews, and monthly reporting.
- Integrate planning, risk management, and controls disciplines.
- Provide technical expertise across PMO and project controls.
- Align controls activities with Mace and client requirements.
- Support net-zero transition through carbon management and reduction.
Requirements
- Experience supporting Development Consent Order processes.
- Major infrastructure experience, preferably in highways.
- Provide clear advice to senior program leadership regarding highways-related dependencies, risks, opportunities, and key decision points.
- Experience managing multiple interfaces (planning, design, construction, modeling, and assessment teams).
- Ability to oversee the preparation of technical papers, recommendations, briefings, reports, and presentations for senior stakeholders and governance forums.
- Ability to identify and manage risks associated with strategy, modeling, stakeholder alignment, and technical scope that could affect consent, cost, program, or delivery.
- Experience maintaining appropriate governance and assurance across the workstream, ensuring key decisions, assumptions, and dependencies are effectively managed.
- Strong understanding of the Planning Act 2008 and EIA requirements relating to highways, transport, and surface access.
- Membership of RICS, CIOB, APM, ICE, or equivalent demonstrable professional or personal development.
- Extensive experience in the successful preconstruction and delivery phase of projects and programs in the Highways sector.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen.
- Leadership and management experience of large, diverse teams.
- Experience managing relationships with key senior stakeholders.
- Knowledge of how carbon and sustainability considerations will shape the outlook of the projects.
- Ability to work on site in West London 4 days per week.
Skills
- Project Management
- Technical Leadership
- Transport Strategy
- Modeling
- Assessment
- Client Representation
- Stakeholder Management
- Risk Management
- Controls Frameworks
- Reporting
- Carbon Management
- Commercial Acumen
- Financial Acumen
- Leadership
- Team Management
Location
- West London
Work Type
- Onsite
- Hybrid
- Part-time
- Flexible
Experience Level
- Associate Director
- Senior
- Extensive
Education Level
- Membership of RICS, CIOB, APM, ICE or equivalent demonstrable professional or personal development.
About the Company
- Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project and redefine the boundaries of ambition.
- Our values shape the way we consult and define the people we want to join us on our journey.
Equal Opportunity
- Mace is an inclusive employer and welcomes interest from a diverse range of candidates.
- Even if you feel you do not fulfil all the criteria, please apply as you may still be the best candidate for this role or another role within our organisation.