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Design team lead - wales

Cardiff
Mott Macdonald
Design
Posted: 6 September
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Overview

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Location/s: Cardiff, UK; Newport, UK

Contract Type: Permanent • Work Pattern: Full Time • Market: Water • Discipline: Water


About The Business Division

The Water Utilities Division is Mott MacDonald’s centre of excellence for responding to the UK and Ireland's water and wastewater challenges. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations, preventing urban flooding, and improving the health of our rivers and coastal environments. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies to outline and detailed design. Together, we deliver best-in-class solutions to our clients while offering diverse and technically stimulating opportunities to our people.


Overview Of The Role

Mott MacDonald is a market leader in the UK water sector, a key supplier to major water companies, and delivers a wide variety of engineering and advisory projects. Our Water Utilities Division has ambitious growth plans in line with AMP8 investment needs. We are expanding our business and are looking for a Design Team Lead to manage a multi-disciplinary team and oversee the delivery of water and wastewater programmes of works. You would build on the good work done in establishing our framework and work with technical discipline leads to ensure projects are delivered on time, budget and with technical excellence. This is a customer-facing role requiring close working relationships with the client leadership team as part of a collaborative approach.

The role is expected to progress and evolve in line with framework requirements and the candidate’s skills and development areas. It offers an excellent opportunity to create future-proofed services and solutions that embrace latest innovations in digital technology and to mentor the next generation of talent within our business.


Candidate Specification

We are looking for a driven individual, keen to make a difference in the sector, take wide responsibilities and progress professionally.


Required Skills And Experience

* Chartered Status (CEng) with a recognised Professional Institution
* An understanding of conventional and innovative water and/or wastewater treatment technologies
* Track record of engineering technical leadership
* Significant experience in development and delivery of feasibility and outline design solutions within the UK water sector
* Ability to support bids, fee proposals or offers of service
* Ability to check and review technical deliverables, calculations and reports
* Strong communication skills with experience in effective collaboration across internal multi-disciplinary teams as well as Client teams
* Desire to take a leading role with client engagement
* Ability to be located locally in client office in Newport with travel to sites in various locations across Wales


Desirable

* Track record in building teams and capability of junior staff
* Understanding of key water sector wastewater treatment and sustainability needs
* Understanding of drivers for wastewater treatment investment in England and Wales
* Excellent technical report writing skills using concise English


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 future.


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.


Agile working

We are happy to talk openly about flexible working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.


Benefits


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.

Application: Apply now, or for more information about our application process. Location(s): Cardiff, GB; Newport, GB.


Job Details

* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
* Industries: Civil Engineering
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