Senior / Principal Civil Engineer - Water

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.

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

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.

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:
Are you aligned with our purpose to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do?
Do you share our drive for progress and focus on end users?

We are looking for people who are:
• Passionate about providing sustainable drainage solutions.
• Driven to help meet the challenge of climate change and manage risks from flooding and coastal erosion.

We are seeking a motivated individual to join our Water team at our new office in Livery Street, Birmingham. This role will offer the successful candidate the opportunity to join a friendly and supportive team, in a vibrant multi-disciplinary office. The successful candidate will help to deliver sustainable infrastructure projects for a diverse range of government and private clients including HS2, local authorities, contractors, developers, environmental agencies, and water utilities. Significant projects include HS2 Phase 1, Werrington Grade Separation, Wednesbury Depot and University Station upgrade.

What you will contribute to the team
The role carries a high degree of autonomy. As a Senior or Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for managing discrete design packages and multi-disciplinary design teams, undertaking design reviews, assuring designs, creating and controlling task budgets and assisting senior management on the delivery of our projects. Opening opportunities and winning new work, Line Management, motivation, development and performance of other direct reports and junior staff are also integral parts of this role.

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.