Job Description
Job Description Are you ready to make a meaningful impact from day one? As a Graduate Planning Consultant, you’ll be at the heart of transformative projects that shape industries, communities, and the environment. You’ll collaborate with passionate teams across design, engineering, and management to plan, lead, and deliver diverse, multi-sector programmes that matter. Our planning discipline is more than scheduling—it’s about vision, strategy, and innovation. You’ll work alongside experts in cost, risk, change, and commercial management, contributing to a culture of trust, integrity, and shared success. Digital innovation drives our evolution, and you’ll be empowered to explore new technologies and ways of working that redefine what’s possible. What You’ll Experience Diverse Projects From environment and water to nuclear, oil and gas, property, transportation, and advisory - your work will span sectors and scales as well as countries, offering rich learning and growth. Collaborative Culture You’ll be part of a supportive, inclusive team that values every voice and celebrates achievements together. Purposeful Impact Your skills will help deliver sustainable projects that improve lives, protect the planet, and drive progress. Growth Opportunities With mentorship, training, and exposure to multidisciplinary teams, your career will flourish in a nurturing environment. Your Day-to-Day Continuously engage, communicate and collaborate with multi-disciplinary project teams Co-create and maintain project schedules with cross-functional teams, aligning scope, contracts, and key milestones. Monitor progress, identify risks and opportunities, and communicate insights that drive informed decision-making. Develop visual planning tools – exploring and using various software/AI - that enhance clarity and collaboration. Partner with cost, risk, change, and information management colleagues to ensure seamless project delivery. Champion best practices in planning and digital systems, guiding teams toward excellence. Attend client and team meetings, presenting data and insights with confidence and clarity. Prepare reports that highlight performance, forecast outcomes, and support strategic planning. We have opportunities in the following locations: Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. Candidate Specification At Mott MacDonald, we’re looking for curious, motivated graduates who want to make a real difference. Join our purpose-driven teams where your ideas matter, your growth is supported, and your work enhances the world we live in. To be eligible for this opportunity, you will have less than 12 months’ relevant experience (excluding placements) and have a degree (obtained no earlier than 2025) or expected to achieve a degree qualification preferably in engineering, construction management, or a similar subject. All our opportunities require a relevant bachelor’s degree as a minimum requirement, some of our opportunities will also require a master’s degree - this will be reflected in the list of opportunities available in our application form. In your application, you should aim to demonstrate your genuine interest in both the opportunity and in joining Mott MacDonald. You can do this by highlighting any relevant experience or interests - such as modules you've studied, previous work experience, or any research you've undertaken about our company, values, and projects. We personally review every completed application we receive as our selection process is entirely human led – we do not use AI tools and kindly expect you not to either. We want you to answer each application question with authenticity so we can get to know the real you. Joining us a graduate is your opportunity to shape your own story. We are looking for graduates with the following strengths: Proactively takes initiative to complete tasks efficiently and independently. Communicates effectively and clearly with clients and colleagues. Delivers high quality written work with strong attention to detail and clarity. Demonstrates a structured and analytical approach to problem solving. As we want the best people for the role, we support flexible working. Please ask us at interview stage about any flexibility you may need. UK Immigration Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. Our ethos is to develop, train and retain our graduates and therefore we are looking for a long-term relationship with our graduates. For this reason, we cannot accept applications from candidates who would be working under the Graduate visa route or other time-limited visas, (irrespective of visa duration), due to their temporary nature and the requirement for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route in future. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative im