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Working at Mott MacDonald

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    18,000 worldwide
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Join Mott MacDonald as a Civil Engineer - Water based in Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, or Belfast. This full-time role features a hybrid working policy within our Water Utilities Division, delivering critical water and wastewater projects across the UK and Ireland.

Requirements

  • Civil engineering degree
  • Water and/or wastewater engineering design experience
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Understanding of health, safety, and environmental issues
  • Proactive approach and adaptability to changing scenarios
  • Working towards Chartership, strong digital capability, and project management experience are desirable
  • Candidates must be eligible for employment in the UK without visa sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Civil engineering design: Undertake feasibility studies, concept, preliminary, and detailed design for water treatment, distribution, storage, and wastewater projects.
  • Technical compliance: Prepare design submissions to ensure compliance with contract requirements and safety standards.
  • Stakeholder collaboration: Work effectively as part of multi-disciplinary design teams and collaborate directly with UK water utility clients and stakeholders.
  • Health and safety focus: Integrate an understanding of health, safety, and environmental priorities into all engineering solutions.
  • Potential transition routes: People from environmental engineering or general civil infrastructure roles may bring strong design and analytical skills, alongside meeting the essential engineering degree requirement.

Job description

Location/s: Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Belfast UK

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the Division

The Water Utilities Division is Mott MacDonald’s centre of excellence for responding to the UK and Ireland's water and wastewater challenges. The work we do is at the forefront of ensuring safe water supplies for future generations, preventing urban flooding, and improving the health of our rivers and coastal environments. Our multi-disciplinary teams provide a variety of services throughout the full project life cycle, from advisory services and feasibility studies to outline and detailed design. Together, we deliver best-in-class solutions to our clients while offering diverse and technically stimulating opportunities to our people.

Overview of the role

We work on a vast range of design projects covering, for example:

  • Water treatment
  • Water distribution and storage
  • Wastewater drainage and recycling
  • Desalination

Our clients include most UK water utility companies and many other governmental organisations and private companies in the UK and overseas. We cover all phases of the project lifecycle from feasibility studies through detailed design, construction support, and commissioning to handover. This offers fantastic opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work and support professional development.

To help us to meet the growing needs of our clients, we have several positions for experienced civil engineers in water and wastewater who will thrive:

  • Working across multiple UK and Ireland water companies
  • Being part of multi-disciplinary design teams in project delivery
  • Delivering excellence everyday
Apply now
Mott MacDonald

Civil Engineer - Water

Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle
Hybrid
Competitive salary with annual bonus and benefits
  • Preparing design submissions to ensure compliance with contract requirements
  • Undertaking studies, concept, preliminary and detailed design
  • Collaborating with clients and other stakeholders
  • This is great opportunity to make a difference. You have the skills, now use them at a company that values a different perspective. Being employee owned means we can choose our own direction and focus on what we believe is important for our clients, our people and the communities where we work and live.

    Candidate specification

    Essential:

    • Civil engineering degree
    • Water and/or wastewater engineering design experience
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
    • Understanding of the importance of prioritising health, safety, and environmental issues
    • Proactive approach, with an ability to adapt to changing scenarios

    Desirable:

    • Working towards Chartership
    • Strong digital capability
    • Project Management experience is not essential but previous experience or a desire to develop these skills would be beneficial

    UK Immigration

    Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

    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 offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

    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.

    We offer some fantastic benefits including:

    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.

    Employee Ownership

    • Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
    • Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
    • As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
    • Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
    • For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

    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.

    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.

    Apply now, or for more information about our application process, click here.

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