Location/s: Huesca or Zaragoza, Spain

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 general 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 a Principal Project Manager, you will provide strategic leadership across a portfolio of major data centre developments, acting as a senior advisor to clients and executive stakeholders.

You will be responsible for leading the delivery of some of the most complex and high-value mission-critical infrastructure programmes, driving project excellence while supporting business growth, client development and operational leadership.

What you will contribute to the team:

Lead major hyperscale data centre programmes from planning through construction, commissioning and handover
Serve as Executive Project Lead on high-profile client engagements
Develop and maintain senior client relationships across investors, developers, operators and contractors
Provide strategic oversight of project governance, risk management and delivery performance
Lead project directors, senior project managers and multidisciplinary teams
Provide executive-level reporting and strategic advice to client leadership teams
Identify and manage programme-level risks, opportunities and commercial considerations
Support business development, market growth and key account management initiatives
Contribute to organisational capability development,



technical excellence and thought leadership within the data centre sector
Mentor and develop future project leadership talent

Candidate specification – Essential
Extensive experience delivering large-scale mission-critical or hyperscale data centre construction projects
Proven track record leading major capital programmes valued in excess of €100m+
Significant experience managing executive-level client relationships
Demonstrated success leading geographically dispersed and multidisciplinary project teams
Deep understanding of construction delivery, commissioning, operational readiness and programme governance
Strong commercial acumen with experience managing complex contract environments
Experience supporting business development and strategic growth initiatives

Qualifications
Degree qualified in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management or related discipline
Chartered Professional status or equivalent highly desirable
Advanced project or programme management qualifications desirable

Skills & Competencies
Exceptional leadership and influencing capability
Strategic thinking and executive-level decision-making skills
Outstanding client relationship and business development capability
Advanced commercial, negotiation and risk management expertise
Ability to lead and inspire high-performing teams
Strong communication and presentation skills with board-level stakeholders
Demonstrated ability to shape project delivery strategies and organisational best practice

Languages
Native-level Spanish
Fluent English (written and spoken)

Additional Requirements
Willingness to travel across Spa

📌 Principal Project Manager (Zaragoza)
🏢 Mott Macdonald Group
📍 Zaragoza