Technical Principal - Light Rapid Transit

Job Description

Mott MacDonald

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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.

Job description:

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced, qualified and enthusiastic transport professional to join our award winning Light Rapid Transit team in the southeast of England (Cambridge, Croydon, Norwich, London or Southampton) focused on light rapid transit; including light rail, bus rapid transit, tram-train and personal rapid transit, aligned with our global Urban Transit & Mobility practice.

Successful technical delivery and maintenance of trust between Client and the company are key to commercial and financial success for Mott MacDonald. The role may oversee one or several projects, supporting Project Managers and Mott MacDonald management as well as mentoring and coaching as necessary with the prime aim of ensuring that projects deliver a successful outcome.

The right candidate shall be able to combine managerial leadership and broad subject matter understanding with technical leadership responsibilities that promote a collaborative approach, inspire teams successfully delivering outcomes for both client and for Mott MacDonald.

You will be offered, and be expected to take on, a high degree of autonomy and responsibility and be able to actively contribute to growing the Infrastructure team's profile and work portfolio through successful project delivery and active participation in business development

Key Accountabilities:

• Senior Associates / Technical Principals are highly accountable for the successful completion of all projects under their oversight. Success means commercial, financial, technical success and realisation of client benefits agreed at bid stage. Broken down it means:
• Accountable for commercial success. This means ensuring contract terms and risk mitigations from WIN are put into practice; that terms and risk are challenged during WIN to ensure project is feasible.
• Accountable for client satisfaction. This means supporting the Project Manager to ensure that suitably skilled staff are made available and deliver to meet the project requirements. This also means balancing and managing the tension between internal and external needs.
• Accountable for sound project technical delivery. This means instigating formal reviews and application of lessons learnt within projects, assessing whether the project structure is fit for purpose, that risks are reviewed and mitigations put in place, and that the Project Plan of Work (PPW) is actively used to manage the project. It also means ensuring that the project team deliver outputs 'right first time'.
• Heavily involved in the resourcing of projects including collaboration with other offices, regions and countries, including the development of staff capabilities.
• Ultimately accountable for Health, Safety and Welfare. This means working to Mott MacDonald’s global standards and demonstrating leadership in Health Safety and Welfare alongside project commercials and risk.

Candidate Specification:

The successful candidate will meet the following criteria:

• Degree qualified in Civil Engineering or transport related discipline, or extensive equivalent experience
• Chartered (or Incorporated) Engineer
• Demonstrable record in providing technical leadership on LRT and infrastructure projects
• Demonstrable record of successfully managing project teams and of planning and controlling project programmes, budgets and resources
• Demonstrable record in providing team leadership
• Experienced in the preparation of fee proposals
• Proven ability of commercial and financial competency
• IT and standard industry software skills, including knowledge of BIM
• Able to communicate confidently and professionally with colleagues, fellow professionals and clients at all levels (written and verbal)
• Able to contribute to business development & development of client relationships
• Confident, articulate, collaborative & proactive
• Strong client-focussed behaviours and a desire to develop opportunities with clients.
• Knowledge and experience of local authority governance.

Experience in working in the design and implementation of urban rapid transit systems is preferred, though broad experience within the transportation sector would also be considered.

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.

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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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