Engineering Project Manager / Senior Engineer, Mott MacDonald, UK

As the Engineering Project Manager/Senior Engineer, you will work with and manage a multidisciplinary team of technical specialists, deliver projects in close partnership with clients and contractors, and build strong relationships to enhance the company’s reputation and help secure further work.

You will be expected to coordinate project teams throughout the project lifecycle from design definition through to implementation, fulfilling all aspects to successfully manage projects, including business management system compliance, technical quality assurance, program, cost control management, and leading client interface.

This role will involve supporting colleagues in the UK and working with clients and stakeholders who may speak English. Therefore, the ability to speak English would be of use.

Candidate Specification

We are seeking a Chartered (or Incorporated) Civil engineer or Senior Engineer / Project Manager with strong UK clean/potable water and/or wastewater infrastructure experience, able to demonstrate the following attributes:

• Experience in clean/potable water pipeline design and/or wastewater network and associated infrastructure design
• A demonstrable understanding of hydraulic engineering principles
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary water pipeline and network projects with other technical disciplines, including environmental specialists, geotechnical, structural, electrical, and mechanical engineers
• You will have a proven project management capability, having managed multiple and/or complex projects in a multidisciplinary environment using a proactive approach and an ability to adapt to changing scenarios.
• You will have a good understanding of designers’ responsibilities under CDM.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills to enter into technical discussions logically and coherently in both oral presentations and written reports to colleagues, non-technical staff, and clients.
• Proficient in English.
• A drive to be abreast of professional development and knowledge of current and emerging technical solutions.

About the Business unit

The Water Consultancy Division is the center of excellence within Mott MacDonald for responding to water and wastewater delivery capability challenges, supporting colleagues across our global business, and offering the best opportunities to get involved in diverse and technically challenging work. Our team continues to grow due to our sustained success in the domestic and international water sector, for major utility companies, and on high-profile capital schemes.

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• A health cash plan will support you with everyday health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• Our comprehensive well-being program offers support options, 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 equals up to 4 times your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 times your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides financial benefits, absence, and return to work support for long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance coverage, critical illness insurance, payroll saving, and will writing.
• As an independently owned business, we share the business’s financial success 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 program.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years of service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

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.