Head of Function - Quality, Health & Safety
19 hours ago
Glasgow
Location/s: National Recruiter contact: Sacha Kelly 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 incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual. Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant. About The Business Unit Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers both project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across the built environment, defence, energy, water, environmental, transportation, health and care sectors. We deliver tailored solutions that directly address our clients’ key challenges, combining our world-leading project expertise with unrivalled programme delivery capabilities and advisory services. APD delivers services to projects ranging in scale and complexity up to £20bn, through the technical disciplines of programme management, project management, project controls, scheduling, cost management, estimating, infrastructure finance, management consulting, digital consulting and education, health and care management. Overview Of The Role As Head of Health, Safety and Quality you will be responsible for the leadership and management of the Health, Safety and Quality team working across our sectors including Transportation, Social Infrastructure, Environment & Water, Energy & Defence, and Built Environment for both internal and external clients. This is a senior leadership position within the Specialist Advisory Portfolio which includes a range of specialisms including PMO/Project Controls, Risk, Planning, Cost Intelligence & Estimating. We are looking for a team leader with a high level of experience and expertise in Health, Safety and Quality who will be able to bring together the existing Health and Safety and Quality teams and form a coherent team who can work both cross sectors delivering their own services and integrate to drive opportunity and growth. Key Accountabilities • Develop & deliver on strategic direction and strategic growth plan for the Quality Health and Safety Team ensuring tie in with the wider Specialist Advisory Services offering, • Team Lead of 60+ cross sector Health and Safety and Quality resources; comprising both specialists and multi-discipline team members, • Day to day resourcing management of team, minimising downtime and ensuring individuals within the team are meeting their career aspirations and following the career development maps, • Responsible for resourcing and recruitment, ensuring sufficient staff with the right skills are available to deliver current workload and meet the strategy for growth, • Be actively involved in project delivery, • Contribute to sub-sector business plans with view on revenue & profit related to Health, Safety and Quality opportunities, • Lead business development and work winning activities in relation to Health, Safety and Quality., • Develop an integrated Health, Safety and Quality offering for both internal and external APD clients, • Lead the team to deliver their project and programmes of work ensuring that our internal procedures are followed, • Sponsoring the development of best practice delivery in Quality Health and Safety Management, • Engaging and inspiring people leader with demonstrable experience of establishing new teams and structure, setting direction, culture and driving high-performance, • Sound business acumen and commercial mindset able to look at things holistically with a track record of maximising opportunities in market, • An effective collaborator and advisor that can position and sell the wider Advisory offering to clients, working closely with APD Sector Portfolios and Specialist Advisory teams, • Strong client facing skills with the ability to build and manage relationships and maximise business development opportunities at all levels of client organisations, • Takes accountability for driving successful outcomes for clients with focus and drive to excel clients’ expectations whilst ensuring profitability for Mott MacDonald, • Ability to operate effectively in a multi-layered matrix consultancy, infrastructure or construction environment through collaboration, influencing, collective decision-making, and common agendas, • Effective communicator, able to engage and influence at all levels internally and externally within Mott MacDonald and client organisations, • 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., • 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., • 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., • 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., • Primary annual professional institution subscription., • Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities. Contract Type: Permanent Work Pattern: Full Time Market: Various Discipline: Health Job Ref: 12599 Recruiter Contact: Sacha Kelly