Control and Instrumentation Engineer
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About the Energy Unit
Mott MacDonald’s Energy unit delivers services to clients globally across several sectors, including hydropower, nuclear, waste, renewable generation, and transmission & distribution networks. We provide integrated engineering and project management services across the life cycle – from concept and design to construction, operations, decommissioning, repowering, and life extension, helping deliver the energy transition globally.
Overview of the Role
In our Energy unit, the Control and Instrumentation Engineer supports a wide range of clients across the defence, existing, and nuclear new build industry. Due to recent project wins and continued growth, we are recruiting a C&I Engineer to join our Nuclear: Defence and Civil team. The work involves supporting the production of C&I designs in line with project requirements and working closely with other disciplines to deliver high‑quality solutions.
Key Responsibilities and Duties
* Support the execution of control and instrumentation work on projects, in accordance with C&I design instructions and company/project procedures.
* Work to agreed standards on safety and quality, man‑hour plans, cost budgets, and project schedule targets.
* Assist in identifying and planning C&I scopes of work.
* Contribute to project planning and execution activities.
* Prepare design deliverables such as drawings, calculations, and specifications to the required quality.
* Liaise with other engineering disciplines and clients as required.
* Ensure solutions comply with discipline‑related legal requirements, including CDM, safety (including application of the EDSPS), environmental and site licence conditions.
* Apply relevant legislation, client and project‑specific policies, procedures, and design standards in day‑to‑day work.
Candidate Specification
Essential
* Degree qualified in electrical engineering or equivalent.
* Working towards professional registration with a relevant engineering institution (IEng/CEng).
* Knowledge of control and instrumentation engineering, including design basis to P&ID development, systems architecture drawings, cable selection, routing, and management drawings, field instrumentation selection, control and safety systems, control and instrumentation cabinet design, instrumentation loop drawings and hook‑up diagrams, compiling instrument data sheets, and the ability to prepare technical reports and specifications.
* Keen to develop knowledge of the latest advances in control and instrumentation technology (fieldbus, wireless systems, safety PLCs).
* Awareness of relevant standards and CDM legislation.
* Ability to deliver accurate documentation to the required standard and schedule.
Offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.
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 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 the future.
Agile Working
We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces well‑being, flexibility, and trust, allowing you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet client, team, and personal commitments.
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.
Benefits
Health and Wellbeing
* Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
* Health cash plan to support you with everyday 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× your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6× 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, 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.
Location(s)
Altrincham, Bristol, Reading, Norwich, Glasgow
Contract Type – Permanent
Work Pattern – Full Time
Market – Energy
Discipline – Energy
Job Ref – 10608
Recruiter Contact – Erinda Hazizi
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