Technical Director - Sustainability and ESG

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: Madeleine Rawlins

Grade: F or G

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.

Overview of role
This is an appointment to support and grow Mott MacDonald’s Circular Economy service offering and join a team that’s developing an exciting, new service offering across the company. The role has long-term career potential, based in Mott MacDonald’s advisory unit.

The aim of this role is to build upon the successes of a cross-unit circular economy team that has been operating for the past three years. The current team is involved in several projects and has both strategic and operational responsibilities and the role would involve contributing to the further development of Mott MacDonald’s circular economy consultancy offer, while also working with stakeholders within the company about potential markets and key clients, and progressing project work.

The successful candidate will be responsible for working with various individuals around the company, who do circular economy work. You will be expected to develop with the role, as the circular economy workstream grows.

You will have the following responsibilities:

• The role has an initial focus on slotting into current work on mapping out Mott MacDonald’s capabilities, clients and markets initially in the EUNA (Europe and North Africa) region. The successful candidate will work with others in the team in formulating a business strategy for circular economy consultancy in the EUNA region.
• Collaborate with existing technical teams across the business with expertise in carbon, waste, social value, energy and water.
• Use own technical knowledge and expertise to map out service offerings, gaps and opportunities across the region. These may include, but not be limited to circular economy policy and research, circular economy statements and strategies, materials flow analyses and procurement advice, circularity measurements and assessments.
• Progress existing circular economy initiatives and build on relationships MM already has in this area.
• Along with other CE team members, provide technical input to Mott MacDonald’s marketing team to generate consistent and high-quality marketing materials and actively participate in marketing campaigns.
• Together with others in the wider Mott MacDonald community, provide thought leadership in the market, prepare materials for and attend industry events, and engage with our clients to share our experience.
• Position Mott MacDonald in the market and present a broad view of the company’s capabilities.
• Work with operational and business leaders to embed circular economy thinking into bidding and project work across the business.
• Proactively pursue opportunities, maintaining good relations with relevant client organisations and partners, and responding to their needs.
• Support sharing of knowledge and experience, both within the team as well as the wider Group.
• The role will report to a technical team leader in Mott MacDonald’s advisory unit and will be part of a growing community of decarbonisation, climate and sustainability experts.
• You will operate initially at strategic, and later on at project levels as well, possess excellent inter-personal skills to engage with our team and clients, and demonstrate innovation to inspire our clients in responding to today’s and tomorrow’s global climate change challenges.

Candidate Specification
Key skills, minimum qualifications and experience:

• A degree in Environmental Science, Engineering Science, Materials Science/Chemistry, Sustainability Studies, Architecture or a related field
• Passion for circular economy, sustainability and technology
• A good understanding of the origins of CE, its scope and purpose
• Basic familiarity with circular economy metrics, assessment and benchmarking systems
• An understanding of the design process and lifecycle of project in the construction industry
• Awareness of UK and European circular economy policy drivers, legislation and best practice
• Experience in the design, implementation and management of projects in the field of circular economy.
• A cross-sectoral understanding of circular economy principles and ability to apply this thinking creatively across different projects
• Good understanding of material flows and supply chains in the construction sector
• Experience of developing and contributing to bids and managing projects
• Sound commercial understanding and desire to operate within a dynamic commercial environment.
• Fluency in written and oral English - additional language capabilities will be appreciated
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and demonstrated strong time-management skills
• Ability to self-direct, multitask, and prioritise constantly evolving workload
• Excellent organisational, motivational and management skills

Desired qualifications:

• Clear, concise writing style and experience in writing for a different audiences.
• Demonstrated experience working in an international, multicultural and diverse environment, with collaborative approach and working across sectoral and regional boundaries.
• Chartered with a relevant professional body

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.