Senior Climate Risk Specialist

Job Description

Mott MacDonald

Position location: Brighton, Cambridge, London, Reading.
Recruiter contact: Hayley Alexander

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 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.

Ready for your next challenge? We're a company that actively fuels the creativity of our people. We create the right foundations to bring brain and soul together and we understand that careers take many forms. We've had enormous success in the AMP8 frameworks, and we know that variety is key to job satisfaction. We use our success to help our people learn through new challenges. So take the next step in your career, with a company focused on supporting the development of our people through defined technical career pathways and supporting creativity with global and local mentors. You have the skills, now use them at Mott MacDonald, a company that values a different perspective. If water's the new gold - shift your career and help address our planet's needs.

Overview of role

Do you want to be part of an employee-owned company where our unique independence affords us the opportunity to focus on projects that matter to us – those focusing on delivering social outcomes and enhancing the environment, that harness digital innovation and that challenge our technical excellence? Working for a company like ours, with technical excellence at our core, offers you access to industry recognised experts in a variety of disciplines, to provide support and career development opportunities. At Mott MacDonald, we are a collaborative team, excited to solve complex challenges that have a positive impact on the world, and we are always looking for like-minded people to join us.

We have an exceptionally strong record in providing climate risk and resilience services and expertise to the UK and international water sectors, as well as supporting clients in other infrastructure sectors. Our clients are increasingly demanding better quantification of physical climate risks and we are continually innovating to support them. We have developed weather generators as well as our own digital tool to interrogate and process UKCP18 data. Our portfolio includes the major UK water companies as well as asset owners in the transport, buildings and energy sectors. We are regularly involved in climate resilience and engineering projects around the world supporting developers and lenders, and we undertake climate change risk assessments, impact modelling and climate resilience advisory projects at a local, regional or national scale.

We are seeking a Senior Climate Risk Consultant to join our technical team across the UK in repose to the growing demand for climate resilience services. As a Senior Climate Risk Consultant, you will be a key figure in the UK Asset Management and Infrastructure Planning team, supporting climate resilience activities in the water and other infrastructure sectors, working closely with a network of climate practitioners across the Group. You will act as technical leader in projects, being responsible for their technical direction and quality, whether applying innovative thinking to new or established services or developing your own concepts from scratch. Alongside your technical role, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills in project management and business development through engaging with clients.

You will have particular responsibility for:

• Obtaining, analysing, and interpreting climate data in support of climate change risk assessments, impact modelling, and adaptation planning
• Devising quantitative approaches to assessing physical risks and failure mechanisms as a result of climate change
• Leading on the provision of climate data and analysis to engineering projects
• Managing climate resilience advisory projects, delivering to budget, programme, and quality standards
• Working collaboratively across disciplines and infrastructure sectors to ensure efficient delivery
• Producing and reviewing climate data sets, risk assessments, and adaptation plans – including written reports
• Assisting with winning work, including managing climate resilience proposals, and development of new business within the asset management and investment planning team and across the wider practice
• Providing technical guidance, support, and training to junior colleagues and assisting, where practicable, in the mentoring and development of others.

Candidate specification

We are looking for someone with a proven track record in the field and with a passion for learning and innovating in this fast-moving discipline. In addition, you will need to have:

• Degree level qualification in civil engineering, meteorology, physical geography, mathematics, or other related discipline
• Chartered with an appropriate professional body
• Experience in analysing and interpreting UKCP18 and CMIP5/6 projection data
• Proven track record in delivering quantitative climate change risk assessment and impact modelling in the water and infrastructure sectors
• Able to guide and mentor junior staff
• Excellent communication and written skills.

Desirable skills:

• Experience in coding
• Asset management or engineering background with understanding of failure mechanisms
• Understanding of engineering requirements on infrastructure projects
• Project management experience.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as 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

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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