Senior 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
Recruiter contact: Madeleine Knight
Hiring manager contact: Kate Armstrong

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 lead delivery of projects, including climate change risk assessments, adaptation plans, and integration of climate resilience into infrastructure design and environmental assessments, predominantly in the UK but also supporting projects across Europe and globally. You will also play a key role in building relationships with our clients and responding to bids with bespoke solutions that meet our clients’ needs.

This is a Principal-level appointment with long-term career development potential in a rapidly growing area.

Candidate Specification
You will have the following skills:

Essential

• Proven track record in delivering climate resilience projects in the infrastructure sector, including managing project teams, budgets and programmes, building client relationships and collaborating with related technical disciplines.
• Experience of developing approaches and delivering qualitative and quantitative climate change risk assessments and adaptation plans.
• Experience of sourcing, interpreting and advising on the use of climate change projection data.
• Proven ability to prepare winning proposals and scopes of work.
• Quality assurance and review of climate resilience deliverables, including a good eye for detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a willingness and enthusiasm to build good working relationships.

Desirable

• Master’s level education and chartership with a relevant professional body in Climate Change, Engineering or Environmental Sciences.
• Minimum of seven years of experience in delivering climate change risk and resilience projects.
• Experience of working with UK and international infrastructure clients.
• Experience of delivering climate change risk assessments within the DCO process and/or investment appraisal.

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.