Climate Resilience Consultant

Job Description

Location/s: London, Sheffield, Brighton, Southampton, Edinburgh or Cambridge though other UK office locations are an option
Relocation supported: Not supported, but internal applications are welcome
Recruiter contact: Laura Kenneedy

Grade: C or D

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.

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

About the business unit

Client organisations face increasingly complex and interconnected challenges throughout their business, and drivers for change are both wide ranging and influential on each another. This includes the need to maximise investment, pursuing net zero and making the energy transition. Climate resilience, digital transformation, and environmental and social outcomes also command new ways of thinking and working.

Our range of strategic advisory capabilities help executive teams articulate the future state of their enterprise, programme or problem that aligns their people, processes, information, and technology.

Our integrated management consultancy services leverage our rich technical excellence of complex problem solving, proven through the practical delivery of projects and programmes through our asset management, business change, digital and data, and value chain solutions.

About the role

Mott MacDonald is committed to improving people’s lives through delivering sustainable infrastructure solutions, and are looking for like-minded, forward-thinking individuals to join our growing Climate and Sustainability Team for the European Region.

You will be part of our team working to deliver climate resilient solutions to a range of customers in the private and public sector. Recent clients have included East West Rail, Heathrow Airport, Association of British Ports, Department for Transport, and UK Water Companies.

You will have responsibility for delivery of qualitative and quantitative climate change risk assessments, including sourcing, interpreting and applying climate data for the assessment and prioritisation of climate risks and adaptation measures for infrastructure projects.

This is a mid-level appointment with long-term career potential, working in a rapidly growing area.

Candidate Specification

You will have the following skills:

Essential

• A excellent understanding of climate science and proven experience of obtaining, interpreting and applying UK climate projection data to infrastructure projects.
• Demonstrable experience of undertaking qualitative and quantitative physical climate change risk assessments.
• Advanced numerical skills, proficiency in MS Excel and/or statistical packages and experience of managing large datasets.
• Use of climate data within digital tools such as GIS, coding and/or digital tool development.
• A good communicator with the ability to convey messages about climate data in an accessible manner.
• Strong collaboration skills, with a willingness and enthusiasm to build good working relationships across the business.

Desirable

• Master’s level education in Climate Change, Engineering or Environmental Sciences or equivalent experience.
• Experience in using climate data in climate change risk identification.
• Use of global climate data and experience in carrying out international climate change risk assessments.

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.

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:

• Pension matched up to 7%
• Life insurance
• An annual professional institution subscription
• Continuous development opportunities – because we want you to thrive
• Agile/flexible working – because life isn’t 9-5
• Enhanced parental leave; shared parental leave policies – for parents and care givers
• Annual bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits that suit you, including ability to buy/sell annual leave entitlement, cycle to work & interest free season ticket loans
• Wellbeing support including access to an independent Employer Assistance Scheme, wellbeing champions and access to learning and support resources
• Access to our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability and parents/carers communities
• The opportunity to make a difference; learn more about our social outcomes

Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.