Associate - Engineering Sciences

Job Description

Mott MacDonald

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

About the business unit

The Buildings and Cities Unit (BNC) has a major presence in Mott MacDonald's regional offices throughout the UK and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross-sector skills across five key Sectors; Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation and Water. We also provide local services to customers and technical leadership to the rest of the Group in these sectors.

Overview of role

One of the largest employee-owned companies in the world, Mott MacDonald is a multisector consultancy providing engineering, management, and development services on projects in 150 countries. With over 18,000 of the best people working on a diverse range of challenges, we're helping our clients deliver sustainable infrastructure and development solutions. Climate change is among the biggest threats facing humanity. Mott MacDonald is taking a position of leadership – using our knowledge, ingenuity, and influence to help the world successfully transition to a low carbon future.

Engineering Sciences is the home for Mott MacDonald’s specialist engineering disciplines within the building sector.
Currently the UK team consists of,
- Façade Engineering
- Building Physics
- Fire Engineering
- Sustainability and Net Zero Carbon

Working directly for our clients and collaboratively with teams across the business, our engineers provide focussed support and technical leadership, delivering an exciting portfolio of work in the public and private sectors.

The Engineering Sciences team is growing rapidly and based on recent project wins and the growing climate emergency is looking to hire someone experienced in computational fluid dynamics modelling (CFD), outdoor thermal comfort and climate aware design.

As the successful candidate you will join an established team of technical specialists and a global community of likeminded experts.

The role is geared towards a candidate who is at a point in their career where they are looking to take on a leadership role and will be motivated to train and develop junior staff. You will have the drive and passion to help us develop buildings and cities which can adapt to our changing climate.

You will work in a professional environment delivering a varied portfolio of worldclass projects. Within these projects, your role will be rewarding and varied, and responsibilities will typically include:
- Working collaboratively with colleagues and clients to develop technical solutions to create climate aware buildings and masterplans.
- Technical delivery of wind microclimate and outdoor thermal comfort assessments using computational modelling approaches.
- Coordinating the work done by and supporting the technical development of junior team members
- Clearly communicate outputs with clients including attendance at design team meetings, presentation of results and writing technical reports.
- Managing the successful delivery of projects, including resource and financial management, ensuring the production of deliverables to agreed timelines and budgets.
- Being client-facing at a senior level, and contributing maintaining client relationships, to provide good prospects and repeat business.
- Supporting business development related activities, identifying opportunities / prospects to allow us to prepare / position the team to produce winning proposals.
- Actively participate in industry committees, contribute to industry standards, and present at technical conferences.

Although this role seeks to find a candidate who will provide technical leadership, the opportunity exists for the right candidate to broaden their technical skillset across the other Engineering Sciences disciplines.

Candidate specification

Essential –
- Demonstrable experience developing climate aware buildings and cities in a range of global climates
- Experience in the technical delivery of wind microclimate and outdoor thermal comfort assessments, preferably using OpenFOAM;
- Experience in a client-facing role, and ability to influence senior level stakeholders;
- A range of report writing, and visual and verbal presentation techniques;
- Ability to work in diverse multidisciplinary teams;
- Willingness and ability to work on range of projects and scopes;
- Chartered with a relevant professional body;

Desirable –
It is expected that the successful candidate will bring experience in one or more of the following technical areas, but it is not expected that any candidate will have experience in the full list.
- Daylight and glare modelling
- Obtaining and processing climate data
- Climate change adaptation strategies
- Climate change mitigation strategies
- Air Quality modelling
- Fire and smoke modelling
- Proficiency in usage of various CAD software, particularly Rhino

- Urban heat island modelling
- Scripting and coding
- Familiarity with Linux based High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems or HPC on the Cloud.
- Dynamic thermal modelling
- Energy modelling
- Physical wind tunnel testing

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

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

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.

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