Job Overview
Due to significant growth and future market opportunities within our Water Consultancy Division, we are looking to establish and grow a Front‑end Engineering Delivery team focused on the leadership, management and engineering delivery of major water projects. This will include the UK water company Strategic Resource Options and major schemes working on flood and coastal risk management, navigation and water, land and biodiversity assets and across the hydropower market. Front‑end Engineering is expected to include feasibility, concept and outline design stages. Join our dynamic and award‑winning OneWater Team at Mott MacDonald.
Responsibilities
* Undertaking studies, concept and outline design
* Leading or coordinating multi‑disciplinary design teams in project delivery
* Review of design submissions to ensure compliance with contract requirements
* Conduct discipline checker role on standard outputs
* Interfacing and liaising with clients and other stakeholders
* Mentoring and contributing to the development of junior staff
* Working with resource leads to coordinate project resources and to grow and develop our capability through recruitment and training
* Business development including providing support to our Account Leaders and production of bids and proposals
* Support technical excellence activities through digital innovation, sharing best practice and implementing robust QA procedures
* Work to Mott MacDonald’s global standards and review Health, Safety and Welfare alongside environmental impact
Qualifications
* Chartered engineer with relevant technical degree
* Solid knowledge of water or wastewater specifications and standards
* Experience developing civil engineering designs and checking designs done by others under your supervision
* Strong communication skills to interact with other disciplines and clients, and to develop the team
* Willingness to contribute to and develop technical knowledge networks
* A drive to keep abreast of professional development and knowledge of current and emerging technical solutions
* Proactive approach, with an ability to adapt to changing scenarios
* Commercial awareness, delivering cost effective solutions within time and cost constraints
Desirable
* Experience of complex, multi‑disciplinary engineering projects
* Experience of water or wastewater projects in the UK and Ireland water market
* Front‑end major projects experience
* Experience of canals or flood defence projects
* Good understanding of designers’ responsibilities under CDM
* Strong digital capability (e.g. Civils 3D, GIS, hydraulic modelling software)
* Contributed towards the identification and development of low carbon solutions
* Able to travel to other offices and sites, as required
Benefits
* Health and wellbeing:
o Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues
o Health cash plan to support you with everyday health costs and treatments
o Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues
o A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family
o Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too
* Financial wellbeing:
o We match employee pension contributions between 4.5 % and 7 %
o Life assurance equal up to 4 × your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 × your salary
o Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return‑to‑work support due to long‑term illness or injury
o Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing
o As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes
* Holiday entitlement:
o Minimum of 33 – 35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme
o Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service
* Enhanced family and carers leave:
o Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave
o Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave, meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay
o Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid
* Learning and development:
o Primary annual professional institution subscription
o A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self‑development options
* Networks, communities, and social outcomes:
o Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities
o Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes
Equality, diversity and inclusion
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.
Accessibility
We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.
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