Advisory Consultant Operational Readiness

At Mott MacDonald, we are driven by purpose and powered by brilliant people. As a trusted engineering, management, and development consultancy, we work with clients to solve complex challenges and deliver sustainable outcomes that make a meaningful difference for the communities we serve.

When you join us as an experienced professional, you will bring your expertise to work that matters while continuing to grow your career. You will collaborate with talented colleagues across disciplines and geographies, contribute your perspective, and help shape better outcomes through technical excellence, innovation, and integrity.

Build on your experience while helping shape what comes next. At Mott MacDonald, you'll work alongside talented people on complex and rewarding projects that make a real difference. We value fresh perspectives, encourage collaboration, and provide opportunities to expand your skills, take on new challenges, and grow your career. Whether you're deepening your technical expertise, broadening your leadership experience, or exploring new opportunities across our business, you'll be supported by a team that is committed to helping you succeed.

Mott MacDonald is seeking a Consultant to support the delivery of operational readiness, business readiness and organizational transition services for major infrastructure projects across public and private sector clients.

The successful candidate will work on complex infrastructure programs and projects, supporting clients in preparing for the safe, effective and efficient transition from construction and commissioning into steady-state operations. Assignments may include operational readiness, activation and transition planning, business readiness and change management, operational governance, asset handover, operational assurance, stakeholder alignment and organizational preparedness.

The role requires strong analytical, problem-solving and change and/or project management capability, together with the ability to synthesize complex information and communicate practical, evidence-based recommendations to clients and senior decision-makers. The successful candidate will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, manage competing priorities and contribute to successful project outcomes.

Responsibilities will involve:

Support the development and implementation of operational readiness, activation and transition strategies for major infrastructure programs and projects

Support the development of operational readiness frameworks, governance structures, stage gates, readiness criteria and decision-making processes

Support readiness assessments, operational assurance reviews and evidence-based reporting to evaluate organizational preparedness for operational commencement

Support the development of readiness KPIs, dashboards, maturity assessments and reporting frameworks to monitor progress toward operational commencement

Support business readiness and change management activities to prepare people, processes and systems for transition into operations

Support the planning and execution of operational readiness activities including operational procedures, workforce readiness, operational documentation and organizational preparation

Support the development of acceptance, handover and transfer requirements between project delivery teams and operational organizations

Support operational risk identification, assessment and mitigation planning, ensuring operational risks are effectively managed throughout project delivery

Support operational exercises, operational proving activities, simulation exercises, emergency preparedness activities and operational trial runs

Support stakeholder engagement, workshops and interviews, bringing together diverse stakeholder groups including owners, operators, maintainers, contractors, and regulators, supporting alignment of shared operational goals

Develop workplans, coordinate multidisciplinary inputs, manage assigned deliverables and monitor scope, schedule, budget, quality and risks

Conduct qualitative and quantitative research and analysis, synthesize findings and prepare high-quality reports, presentations, briefing materials and other client deliverables

Coordinate and collaborate with technical, commercial and specialist disciplines across local, regional and global teams

Support project commercial management activities, including forecasting, invoicing, change management and performance reporting

Contribute to business development through client engagement, opportunity identification, proposal development, scope definition, resourcing and work planning

Build trusted client relationships and contribute to knowledge sharing, service development and continuous improvement across the Advisory practice

Candidate Specification:

A post-secondary degree in engineering, business, planning, pr