How we're different

At Mott MacDonald we know where we’re going as a company and how we’re going to get there. Our vision for the organisation we want to be shapes our values, directs our decision-making and lies at the heart of all our business planning – from global Group-level strategy to local team-level plans.

At the same time our freedom as an employee-owned company to drive our own future also gives us the flexibility to seize appropriate opportunities as they arise and the strength to be different from the rest when we believe that’s in the best interests of our people and our customers.

We’re independent and employee-owned

This means we’re in business for long-term prosperity not short-term gain, so we have a more strategic outlook coupled with a stronger people focus and flexible approach. It also means we’re not driven by outside interests but are accountable to our own people – the Group Board answers to a formal Shareholders’ Committee which has an important role in controlling fundamental issues in the management of the Group’s business.

Being employee-owned we are also charged with being responsible custodians of the company for future generations – a sense of duty that is an intrinsic part of our culture. More than one in ten employees around the world are now shareholders and we’re progressively increasing the opportunities for staff ownership year on year across the Group by embracing a wider range of employee roles and responsibilities.

Our huge skills range is hard to beat

The immense and constantly growing scope of our business demands a huge variety of expertise which we’re able to provide in house. Adding to our capabilities in mainstream technical and managerial disciplines, we’re skilled in hundreds of specialist fields – just the very briefest of cross-sections includes areas as diverse as ergonomics, telematics, corporate sustainability, information management, organisational reform, marine ecology, landscape architecture… and the list keeps growing month by month.

We’re constantly adding new services

Our customers never stand still so neither do we. By staying closely attuned to their needs and aspirations we seek to keep ahead of the game, proactively identifying new service requirements and gearing up to meet them. Across all our market sectors we achieve this through a combination of targeted recruitment and strategic acquisition or partnership, all aligned to the goals set out in our strategic plan.

We make collaboration really work

It’s because we believe passionately in the benefits of true collaboration – for our customers, our partners and ourselves – that we’re completely committed to making it work. In more and more areas of our business we’re working in totally integrated, co-located teams with our customers and partners in both public and private sectors. Our approach to collaboration pushes the boundaries of continuous improvement through imagination, lesson learning and a drive to innovate, achieving cost-effective, quality solutions and bringing mutual rewards for everyone.

We focus on one target – delivery

At Mott MacDonald we get the job done. We understand what our customers need and what’s required to satisfy those needs and we get on with it – adding real value in the process by saving them as much money and time as possible without ever compromising on quality. Because we’ve been delivering ambitious, vast, complex and demanding projects all over the world– from transport and energy systems in Europe and the USA to healthcare and education services in Africa and China – we’ve proven time and again that we’re a safe, dependable and dedicated pair of hands. And it’s this same drive to deliver that we bring to every single assignment, no matter how large or small.