Mott MacDonald
Head of Function - Quality, Health & Safety
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Head of Health, Safety and Quality – Mott MacDonald
Location/s: National Recruiter contact: David McFall Closing Date: 15/07/2026 – 1700
About Mott MacDonald
Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We operate across key industries—built environment, defence, energy, water, environment, transportation, health, and care—delivering solutions with societal impact.
As a proudly employee-owned business, we invest in an inclusive culture where employees feel empowered, valued, and encouraged to grow. With exceptional opportunities for collaboration, learning, and advancement, we support every individual to unlock their potential. From becoming a subject matter expert to broadening experience across our global network, you’ll work alongside specialists who champion your success.
About the Business Unit
Mott MacDonald’s Advisory and Programme Delivery (APD) unit delivers project, programme & commercial management (PPCM) services and advisory solutions across sectors including:
- Built environment
- Defence
- Energy
- Water
- Environmental
- Transportation
- Health & care
We offer customised solutions combining world-leading project expertise with programme delivery, digital consulting, cost management, and management consulting. Our services support projects scaling up to £20bn, with specialist disciplines including:
- Programme & project management
- Project controls & scheduling
- Cost management & estimating
- Infrastructure finance
- Digital consulting
- Health, safety, and quality management
Overview of the Role
As Head of Health, Safety and Quality, you will lead our team of 60+ specialists and multi-discipline professionals, ensuring they drive quality, safety, and performance across our sectors:
- Transportation
- Social Infrastructure
- Environment & Water
- Energy & Defence
- Built Environment
You will steward growth in this senior leadership position within Specialist Advisory Services, integrating Health, Safety, and Quality teams. Responsibilities include merging teams, leading strategy, delivering cross-sector services, and driving revenue opportunities.
Key strategic actions include:
- Developing forward-thinking growth plans for the Quality and Safety team, ensuring strong alignment with broader APD offerings.
- Team leadership of a diverse workforce, supporting career development, skill planning, and maximising team performance.
- Resourcing & recruitment, ensuring a skilled workforce to meet current and future demand while minimising waste.
- Daily project delivery engagement and oversight of internal processes.
- Participation in sub-sector business impacts, including profitability targets from Health, Safety, and Quality opportunities.
- Leading business development and work winning activities.
- Delivering integrated Health, Safety, and Quality solutions internally and for external APD clients, setting internal expertise benchmarks.
- Governing best-practice delivery in Quality and Safety Management and ambassadorship to promote our reputation as industry leaders.
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Key Accountabilities
Strategic Leadership
- Develop and implement a strategic direction and growth plan for Health/Safety/Quality that supports Specialist Advisory Portfolio goals.
- Lead culture and ethos, driving high performance and cohesive team delivery.
Team Management
- Lead a team of 60+ people across sectors, ensuring expertise matrix optimization.
- Manage resource allocation, career progression, and talent retention.
- Enhance wellbeing initiatives, career mapping, and L&D support systems.
People Strategy & Growth
- Oversee high-quality recruitment, minimising downtime and ensuring talent pipelines.
- Balance workloads while fostering sectoral and cross-sector collaboration to unlock opportunities.
- Achieve sectorial revenue and profit targets by leveraging Health/Safety/Quality strengths.
Client Partnerships & Development
- Internal project delivery partner, ensuring alignment with client needs.
- Develop Health/Safety/Quality offerings for APD clients, including both internal teams and external engagements.
- Proactively drive business development, winning contracts and enhancing Mott MacDonald’s perception.
Quality & Safeguarding Governance
- Champion best-practice delivery in Quality Safety Management.
- Inspire high performance through cross-sector knowledge transfer.
- Promote Mott MacDonald’s values externally through industry engagement and forums.
Requirements
Essential Experience & Capabilities
- Chartered professional with a degree and chartership accredited to relevant bodies.
- Charismatic leadership with a proven ability to establish new teams, create strong cultures, and drive exceptional performance.
- Tactical and strategic business acumen, combined with a market vision for opportunity maximisation.
- Holistic commercialel mindset—able to align interests, hiducate senior stakeholders, and sell Advisory services to stakeholders in a matrix organisation.
- Effective client facing presence, relationship builder, and negotiator.
- Accountable for driving profitability and high-value client outcomes.
- Matrix/consultancy-collaborative skills, using influencing, collective decision-making, and agile coping to navigate challenges.
- Exceptional internal & external communication—able to engage, inspire, and influence at all levels.
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Benefits at Mott MacDonald
Health and Wellbeing
- Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
- Health Cash Plan supporting personal health expenses and treatments.
- Via Peppy, unlimited access to menopause experts (UK colleagues only).
- Access to a comprehensive wellbeing program, including therapies and diagnostics.
- Flexible job design, allowing you to tailor salary to health, social, or life cover benefits.
Financial Wellbeing
- 4.5%–7% employee pension contribution matching by Mott MacDonald employees.
- Life assurance to 4x salary, increaseable to 6x salary via flexible benefits.
- Income protection, covering long-term illness or injury, with extended return-to-work support.
- Voluntary benefits including additional life cover, critical illness, digital savings plans, or will writing services.
Lifestyle
- 33–35 days annual leave (inclusive of public holidays), extendable after 5+ years.
- Flexible holiday options allowing sale or purchase of unused leave to manage work/life balance.
- Range of employee discounts and savings programmes with high-street brands and partners.
Family & Carers Support
- Enhanced maternity 26 weeks at full pay (with extensions as required).
- 24 weeks shared parental leave at full pay, aligning with maternity benefits.
- Two weeks’ paid paternity/partner leave, mirrored in our NHS-leading scheme.
- Five additional days’ leave for carers, comprising 2 paid days.
Learning & Development
- Subscriptions to primary professional institutions for relevant training certifications.
- Access to a broad array of formal training, mentoring, and self-development networks.
Networks & Community
- Join Advanced Employee Networks promoting diversity (LGBTQ+, race/ethnicity, disabilities, and parents/carers).
- Participate in corporate social outcomes, driving positive change with community initiatives.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
We champion equality, diversity, and inclusion, fostering our diverse communities and valuing individual expression.
Hybrid Working & Accessibility
AGILE work framework for remote working, ensuring flexibility and work/life balance.
Hybrid roles respect work effectiveness with trust:
- Accessible recruitment: If you need reasonable adjustments in interview or application, please contact reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com.
An application or more recruitment information: View linked route for application. Applications open for open-ended consideration until 15/07/2026.
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