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Principal engineer - dams and rivers

Manchester
Permanent
Mott Macdonald
Principal engineer
€60,000 a year
Posted: 8 December
Offer description

Join to apply for the Principal Engineer - Dams and Rivers role at Mott MacDonald.


Location

Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds, Cambridge, London, Reading, Bristol, Brighton & Manchester, UK


Recruiter contact

Laura Easdon


About the Water Consultancy Division

The Water Consultancy Division is Mott MacDonald’s centre of excellence for responding to water and wastewater challenges, offering fantastic opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations and protecting our environment.


Overview of the Role

We are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Civil Engineer to join our Dams and Reservoirs team. Mott MacDonald is a market leader in the UK water sector, being a key supplier to major water companies and delivering a wide variety of engineering and advisory projects in support to the challenges faced by the sector.

Our Dams and Reservoirs team has ambitious growth plans in three key areas:

* Meeting upcoming investment needs through our existing and new frameworks with major UK water companies, reservoir owners and the Environment Agency
* Development of Strategic Resource Options to address future water supply challenges
* Delivery of landmark hydropower projects in the UK and internationally


Key Responsibilities And Duties

* Leading multidisciplinary projects and bids, harnessing our existing expertise in geotechnical engineering, dam foundation analysis, risk assessment and breach analysis, hydraulic structures, dam body analysis, and collaborating with our specialists in hydrology, hydropower, water transfers, environment, planning and beyond
* Representing the company in technical and consortia meetings
* Driving knowledge-sharing and innovation through training and empowering others
* Mentoring and developing others, providing guidance to support their professional development
* Promoting a vibrant health and safety culture and practice
* Driving continuous improvement in project delivery


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.


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 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.


Additional Information

* Contract Type: Permanent
* Work Pattern: Full Time
* Market: Water
* Discipline: Water
* Job Ref: 5699
* Recruiter Contact: Laura Easdon
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
* Industries: Civil Engineering
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