Technical Director - Climate Resilience

Job Description

Location/s: UK Wide
Recruiter contact: David McFall
Closing Date: 22/11/2024

Business context

Infrastructure organisations face unprecedented need to increase their resilience and capacity to adapt to the changing climate. We combine our deep domain expertise with our specialist technical services to achieve lasting industry transformation and resilience to the impacts of climate change.

Our dynamic and diverse team is not short on ambition. We want our people to have genuinely exciting and fulfilling careers full of equal opportunities for growth, with a real sense of purpose through meaningful work and relationships. All of this is underpinned by a culture of trust and transparency. We deliver our work as a fully hybrid team, we continue to embrace technology change to support greater flexibility and work-life balance. And we operate within the wider cultural setting of the Mott MacDonald Group, leveraging its renowned technical expertise and deep domain knowledge in the realms of infrastructure and complex problem solving.

Role overview

You will play a prominent role in our European Climate and Sustainability business and be instrumental in building our climate resilience capabilities. The role will be within the growing Climate Change and Sustainability team for our Europe Region and will also work closely with Mott MacDonald’s Global Practice Leader for Climate Change.

As a Technical Director for climate resilience services, you will provide technical oversight and quality control of our services around asset and portfolio level climate risk and resilience commissions. This will include quantitative and qualitative climate risk assessments, advising on use of climate projection data in asset level risk assessments, impact modelling, design integration, adaptation planning, business case integration and due diligence.

You will lead the integration of climate risks and resilience across out technical business units, working with designers and engineers to embed climate change resilience across our projects in sectors such as energy infrastructure and the built environment.

We want to hear from you if you meet some of our requirements, there is some flexibility in this role within our growing team.

Location:

London, Sheffield, Brighton, Southampton, Edinburgh or Cambridge, though a UK nationwide position is an option. The role would require travel.

Responsibilities

Technical Excellence and Project Delivery

• Lead technical delivery of projects to ensure technical excellence for our clients
• Lead on the technical integration of climate resilience in infrastructure design projects.
• Advise our clients on climate risks, resilience and adaptation, and uncertainties as part of their asset management decision making and business planning.
• Provide technical oversight in the development of digital tools, thought leadership, and training.
• Mentor and support the technical development of the team.

Business Development & Growth

• Engagement with clients and industry stakeholders to
• Collaborate across the wider business and support the creation of climate resilience services that align with our key client and market needs.
• Create opportunities with clients and lead the preparation and presentation of technical proposals

Qualifications & Experience

Required:

• Masters level education and chartership with a relevant professional body (engineering, asset management, climate change, environmental science, or other related discipline)
• Experience delivering climate resilience services within infrastructure and built environment sectors.
• Experience in quantitative CCRA and impact modelling (and supervising junior colleagues)
• Experience in interpreting and advising on the use of climate data in asset management, design, or investment appraisal
• Proven track record in winning and delivering climate resilience projects for infrastructure sector clients
• Proven track record in using and developing digital solutions and developing innovative approaches to develop climate resilience.
• Ability to think strategically and laterally, bringing creativity to problem solving.
• Strong communication skills, polished creative/technical writing and a confident presenter.

Desired

• Experience in energy and/or buildings sectors
• In-depth knowledge of UKCP18 and other climate projection data sets
• Track record in developing thought leadership

Behaviours / qualities

• Commitment to company PRIDE values (Progress; Respect; Integrity; Drive; Excellence).
• A self-starter mentality with a desire to apply initiative and new ideas, comfortable working in a dynamic, evolving environment.
• A strong sense of team spirit and understanding of the vital leadership, capability and cultural components that drive the people element of service offerings.
• An open minded attitude and ability to create collaborative environments and influence stakeholders at all levels.

We can offer (subject to Company’s policy):

- Agile and safe working environment

- Competitive annual leave and sick leaves

- Group incentive scheme

- Group term life insurance, Workmen’s compensation and Group medical insurance coverage

- Short and Long-term Global employment opportunities

- Global collaboration and knowledge sharing

- Digital Innovation and Transformation

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.