Road Safety Advisory Lead

Job Description

Location/s: Southampton, UK
Recruiter contact: Madeleine Knight

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 business unit
We help conceive, drive, and implement transport solutions for cities, regions, and asset owners/operators around the globe. From preparing the business case and advising on related issues - such as revenue, procurement, and environmental legislation - to delivering the completed infrastructure and helping maintain it. Our planning, engineering, environmental and management skills cover the whole project cycle. We play a major role in developing and delivering the Global Transport Sector Strategy.

Overview of the role
Mott MacDonald have ambitious plans to grow our road safety services in the UK and internationally. We are seeking a dynamic and experienced road safety industry leader to join as Road Safety Advisory Lead to drive this growth and develop our team.

This role can be based out of any one of our UK offices.

This is an exciting senior leadership role with the opportunity to shape, develop and grow our Road Safety Team and contribute to achieving a high performing shared enterprise with our partners.

Your focus will be on delivering great work, building a robust and high-performing team and winning work in your specialist field to grow this portfolio, opening doors to new workstreams and clients.

It will be your responsibility to grow our road safety advisory offering, providing services linked to guidance, policy, standards development, research and trials to our clients. You will have the latitude to drive the direction of the advisory team in response to client and industry need, including looking ahead to future horizons and the challenges that new transport trends will bring (e.g. automated vehicles and driverless cars).

Road Safety Advisory Lead role responsibilities:

• Technical Leadership
  
  • Act as Project Technical Lead or Road Safety Discipline Lead on appropriate medium to large scale projects
  • Act as a senior technical leader for our road safety discipline
  • Develop and mentor junior staff in the team, building a robust technical group and giving people clear pathways for their development
  • Provide technical and subject matter input to bids and opportunities to win new work
  • Engage proactively with the Mott MacDonald Highways Practice globally as a subject matter expert
  • Assist the Asset & Advisory Portfolio Lead with selecting and assigning appropriate technical resources to bids and projects
  • Identify recruitment and development needs for the team
• Road Safety Advisory
  
  • Lead development of the TMS Road Safety Advisory offering, working with the Asset & Advisory Portfolio Lead to achieve this goal
  • This broadly includes specialist road safety advisory services like iRAP and safety policy and guidance development, but there is scope for you to broaden this into other areas of interest (e.g. risk management and safety associated with connected vehicles, driverless vehicles)
• Client Engagement and Business Development
  
  • Drive efforts to secure specialist road safety work (e.g. advisory work on the SPaTS3 Framework)
  • Support the WIN team with client engagement on road safety subject matter
  • Build your internal Mott MacDonald network globally
  • Maintain a strong external network, participating in industry forums, conferences and acting in Client-facing roles to demonstrate Mott MacDonald ability to respond to Client challenges
  • Note, the prospective candidate should bring a strong external network with them to help grow the service

Candidate specification
Essential:

• You should possess an industry-recognised profile with a strong external UK network
• Have extensive demonstrable experience in the road safety sector
• Possess demonstrable experience in client-facing roles, providing expert technical advice and leadership
• Possess demonstrable experience leading and growing technical teams
• Honours degree or greater in a relevant engineering, safety or risk management related subject

Desirable:

• Professional accreditation, such as Chartered status
• Industry-recognised profile internationally

Please be advised that offers for this role are conditional upon obtaining the appropriate level of Security Clearance.

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:

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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