Water Major Projects – Senior Civil Engineer NEW

Job description

About the 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.  Our multi-disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies, through outline and detailed 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 Front-end Engineering Delivery team focussed on the leadership, management and engineering delivery of major water projects. This will include the UK water company Strategic Resource Options and major schemes working on flood and coastal risk management, navigation and water land and biodiversity assets and across the hydropower market.

Front-end Engineering is expected to include feasibility, concept and outline design stages.

Join our dynamic and award-winning OneWater Team at Mott MacDonald, where we are committed to our Clients, our People and the Environment.

We are agile across our resource teams, which offers candidates excellent career progression opportunities. You will work alongside industry recognised experts to deliver value to key clients, including water companies, Environment Agency and contractors.

We are looking for a Senior Civil Engineer to support the delivery front-end engineering across a large range of complex multi-disciplinary engineering projects, including water major projects. There will opportunities to get involve with other aspects of project delivery, including detailed design.

In this role you will ensure that our technical delivery performance meets the expectations of both our clients and our internal focus on technical excellence, and contribute to winning proposals.

In this role, you will:

• Undertaking studies, concept, and outline design
• Leading or coordinating multi-disciplinary design teams in project delivery
• Review of design submissions to ensure compliance with contract requirements
• Conduct discipline checker role on standard outputs
• Interfacing and liaising with clients and other stakeholders
• Mentoring and contributing to the development of junior staff
• Working with resource leads to coordinate project resources and to grow and develop our capability through recruitment and training
• Business development including providing support to our Account Leaders and production of bids and proposals
• Support technical excellence activities through digital innovation, sharing best practice and implementing robust QA procedures
• Work to Mott MacDonald’s global standards and review Health, Safety and Welfare alongside environmental impact

Candidate specification

We are seeking a driven individual with a passion for finding solutions that meet environmental and cost drivers whilst delivering excellent customer outputs.

Essential:

• Chartered engineer with relevant technical degree
• Solid knowledge of water or wastewater specifications and standards
• Experience developing civil engineering designs and checking designs done by others under your supervision
• Strong communication skills to interact with other disciplines and clients, and to develop the team
• Willingness to contribute to and develop technical knowledge networks
• A drive to keep abreast of professional development and knowledge of current and emerging technical solutions
• Proactive approach, with an ability to adapt to changing scenarios
• Commercial awareness, delivering cost effective solutions within time and cost constraints

Desirable:

• Experience of complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects
• Experience of water or wastewater projects in the UK and Ireland water market
• Front-end major projects experience
• Experience or canals or flood defence projects
• Good understanding of designers’ responsibilities under CDM
• Strong digital capability (e.g. Civils 3D, GIS, hydraulic modelling software)
• Contributed towards the identification and development of low carbon solutions
• Able to travel to other offices and sites, as required

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.