Water Major Projects - Technical Advisory Lead
Location/s: Cambridge, Leeds, Brighton, Reading, Bristol, Birmingham, Southampton; UK
Recruiter contact: David McFall
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 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. We are an employee-owned business, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued.
About The Division: The Water Consultancy Division is Mott MacDonald’s centre of excellence for responding to water and wastewater challenges, offering opportunities to work on diverse and technically challenging projects. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies through design to construction support and site supervision.
Overview Of The Role
Due to significant growth and future market opportunities within our Water Consultancy Division, we are looking to establish and grow a technical advisory team to provide specialist technical advice on major water projects. This will include:
* Lenders Technical Advisory (LTA) work
* Technical Advisory projects (e.g., one-off technical reviews or ongoing drumbeat audits, assurance and risk reviews for investors/IPs/CAPs)
* Independent design reviews, coordinating wider resources as required, including CAT 3 checks
* Support to Independent Technical Advisor bids and delivery
To keep our service offering joined up, ensure consistent, high-quality technical output, and provide space for our people to grow around a team working on similar work with similar clients, we plan to establish a Major Projects Technical Advisory team within the Water Engineering Team of our Water Consultancy Division. The Major Projects Technical Advisory Lead will lead on all technical advisory work undertaken by our technical (e.g., engineering) water teams on major projects.
Key Responsibilities And Duties Include
* Establish and grow a team to deliver technical advisory work on major water projects
* Business development by working with Account Leaders and Client Directors to engage with the market, develop new opportunities and help maintain significant work for the team
* Team leadership, line management and resource management (with delegation as required)
* Ownership of external proposition to the market of our water projects Technical Advisory offering
* Overall responsibility for all technical advisory work undertaken by our technical (e.g., engineering) water teams
* Technical Lead or Project Director for delivery of Technical Advisory projects
Candidate specification
Essential
* Experience of delivering technical advisory work to investors, lenders or finance institutions
* Experience of business development and growing service offerings and teams
* Major project delivery experience, ideally in the water sector
UK Immigration
Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is a consequence of changes to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We welcome applications from candidates eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in the future.
Agile working
We believe it makes sense to choose how you work to meet client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces wellbeing, flexibility, and trust.
Equality, diversity, and inclusion
We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, promoting fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression and are committed to an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.
Accessibility
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We Offer Some Fantastic Benefits Including
* Health and wellbeing: private medical insurance, health cash plan, access to menopause support, comprehensive wellbeing program, and flexible benefits.
* Financial wellbeing: pension contributions matching, life assurance up to 4x (option to 6x), income protection, flexible benefits including critical illness insurance, and annual bonus schemes.
* Lifestyle: 33–35 days holiday (varies by level) with buy/sell options, additional holiday after years of service, savings schemes and discounts.
* Enhanced family and carers leave: maternity/adoption leave, shared parental leave, and additional caring leave.
* Learning and development: professional subscriptions, mentoring, training, and self-development options.
* Networks, communities, and social outcomes: access to employee networks and community involvement opportunities.
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Location: Cambridge, Southampton, Reading, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, Brighton
Contract Type: Permanent
Work Pattern: Full Time
Market: Water
Discipline: Civil
Job Ref: 11361
Recruiter Contact: David McFall
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