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Closing Date: 29/08/2025
Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.
Location/s: UK Wide
Recruiter contact: David McFall
Closing Date: 29/08/2025
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 global 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 bebrilliant.
We are anticipating significant opportunities and growth in our detailed design work for Contractors in the UK and Ireland water market. These opportunities are generally major projects with capex £100m-£5bn (eg new supply reservoirs, major water transfer schemes, large sewage and water treatment works, effluent reuse schemes). We also expect significant opportunities with Contractors working onflood and coastal risk management, navigation and water land and biodiversity assets from early 2027.
To keep our service offering joined up, ensure consistent, high-quality technical output, and to provide space for our people to grow around a team working on similar work with similar clients, we plan to establish a Detailed Design team within Water Engineering Team of our Water Consultancy Division.
The Detailed Design Lead will have responsibility for leading and overseeing all detailed design projects delivered by the team, and ensuring we have the right Project Technical Leads in place to ensure quality and control our risk exposure.
Roles and responsibilities
* Establish and grow a team to deliver the detailed design work we win and help to maintain significant work for this team.
* Support Business Development by working with relevant Account Leaders (contractors, EA and internal to support the likes of hydropower) and Client Directors to engage with the Contractor market, develop new opportunities and support tender design submissions with contractors.
* Team leadership, line management and resource management (noting line management and resource management to be delegated as required) of the detailed design team.
* Help to support and nurture the next generation of designers to ensure a sustainable long-term detailed design offering in the UK water market.
* Technical Lead or Project Director for delivery of Detailed Design projects for Contractors
Relevant Experience
* Significant experience of delivering detailed design work for Contractors in the UK and Ireland water market.
* Ideally a range of technical experience including infrastructure and non-infrastructure projects (projects are likely to include a broad range of flood management, treatment, pipelines, dams and reservoirs so the wider the experience, the better).
* Experience of business development and growing service offerings and teams.
* Team leadership experience is essential, including resource management and line management as a preference.
* Major project delivery experience, ideally in the water market.
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. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.
Agile working
At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.
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.
We Offer Some Fantastic Benefits Including
Health and wellbeing
* Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
* Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
* Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
* A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
* 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
* We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
* Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
* Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
* Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
* As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.
Lifestyle
* A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
* Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
* Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.
Enhanced family and carers leave
* Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
* Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
* Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
Learning and development
* Primary annual professional institution subscription.
* 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
* Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
* Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.
Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.
Location(s):
Cambridge, GB
Contract Type: Permanent
Work Pattern: Full Time
Market: Water
Discipline: Water
Job Ref: 10205
Recruiter Contact: David McFall
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
* Industries
Civil Engineering
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