Technical Delivery Director

Job Description

Location/s: Cambridge, London, Reading
Recruiter contact: David McFall
Hiring manager contact: David Ocio

Closing date - 07/08/2024

Do you want to work for a company whose purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes, and to transform businesses, communities, and opportunities for its employees?

Mott MacDonald is a market leader in the UK water sector, being a key supplier to major water companies and delivering a wide variety of engineering and advisory projects in support to the challenges faced by the sector. Working for a company like ours, with technical excellence at our core, offers you access to industry recognised experts in a variety of disciplines and the support and opportunities you are after for your career progression. Our business is wholly employee- owned. Being independent means that we can choose our own direction and focus on what we believe is important for our clients, our people and those communities which we work and live in. We are a family of people excited to solve complex challenges that have a positive impact on the world, and we are always looking for like-minded people to join our team.

Our Water Consultancy Division has ambitious growth plans in line with AMP8 (2025-2030) investment needs and we are proud of our strong reputation in the industry which is allowing us to expand our business. Our programme offering spans services from understanding our clients’ needs, identifying options and preferred solutions and developing outline and detailed design packages. Given this, we are looking for a Technical Delivery Director to help us focus relentlessly on technical excellence and digital innovation in the delivery of engineering consultancy services in the UK water sector.

This is a senior leadership position within our UK Water Consultancy Division, where you will work closely with our teams delivering multi-year framework contracts for a variety UK water companies in the South.

In this role you will ensure that our technical delivery performance meets the expectations of both our clients and our internal focus on technical excellence. You will work with our framework leadership and delivery teams to ensure we have:

• The right structure and people in place to meet the technical demands of each framework;
• The right systems and processes to deliver project outcomes in line with client and framework delivery processes, our internal business management system and our governance processes;
• A culture which drives innovation, challenges the norm and constantly seeks better and more efficient ways of delivering the solutions our clients’ need;
• A detailed understanding of our clients’ business plan objectives and consequent technical challenges and to continuously engage with our clients to maintain this understanding.

This role will bring together all parts of our overall offering and help us deliver projects through an efficient and repeatable process while still allowing flexibility for bespoke solutions and innovation. As well as capitalising on our current offering, you will help to develop our teams to close any gaps in our service offerings.

We are seeking a driven individual with a passion for finding solutions that meet environmental and cost drivers whilst delivering excellent customer outputs.

Required skills and experience:

• Chartered engineer with relevant technical degree;
• Proven technical leadership skills;
• In depth understanding of the major challenges faced by the UK water industry and the key drivers for AMP8;
• Aptitude for innovation and driving efficiency;
• Experience in mentoring people and teams;
• The ability to travel on a regular basis to engage with teams/clients across the South.

Desirable:

• Strong commercial awareness, delivering cost effective solutions within time and cost constraints;
• Working with, or for, D&B contractors;
• Working directly with, or on secondment to, a UK water company;
• Qualifications in project management;
• Line management responsibility for a large team of design engineers.

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 have the opportunity to contribute.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team and personal commitments. We embrace agility, flexibility and trust.